MIDDLETOWN, Del. (AP) — A Delaware state house candidate has acknowledged removing her opponent’s campaign literature from the front door of a home.
News outlets report Monique Johns asked voters to forgive her in a statement issued Monday by the Delaware Democratic Party.
Her statement came a day after a resident posted recordings from his home security system on Facebook. The first video showed Republican incumbent Kevin Hensley leaving the pamphlet, while the second shows a woman removing Hensley’s pamphlet and replacing it with another.
Johns identified herself as the woman in the video. She says her own signs have been stolen, too.
The 49-year-old secretary at the Department of Labor won a three-way primary to challenge Hensley last month. Hensley, who’s seeking a third term, defeated Johns in 2016.
Nice Sunday for our local candidates to make house calls. In the first video is Kevin Hensley dropping by the house…
Posted by Randy J. Smith on Sunday, October 21, 2018
And just how does this stack up against suppressing the votes of thousands elsewhere?
Cue the fucking outrage,
The first and only response to something like this MUST BE, it was / is stupid and wrong. Period.
No what-about-too-ism is acceptable.
Wrong? yes - but does something like this (regardless of whether it is committed by a Democrat or a Republican) warrant being juxtaposed with the critical monumental events of world and national politics?
This is a contest for the the Delaware House of Representatives - the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly; the state legislature of the state of Delaware. This is not just “minor league baseball” - it is almost instructional league - and stupid things get done on all sides … and this instance is like the cases of one candidate destroying another’s lawn signs … people do dumb stuff - good people and bad people … this was a dumb move …
He should double down. “The pamphlet is full of lies. It’s junk mail. Delaware voters are entitled to the facts, not propaganda. I wish I had done this more often.”
This is worse than dumb. Democrats aren’t supposed to pull this [stuff]. In a world where Beto O’Rourke gets the both-siders all in a tizzy for calling Cruz a liar, we don’t need to hand them more ammunition wrapped in a pretty package, tied in a pretty bow, and handed on a silver platter.
Look, I’m sure that many of the houses she visited appreciated her clearing out some advertising flyers, wishes she had taken more of them, and preferred she not leave her own. She committed a minor moral crime against her opponent but a major stupidity against the Democratic brand. To quote Obama: Don’t do stupid [stuff].