CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, September 13 - September 19,1996.17
Bunting, Rogers, Clendaniel forge ahead toward November elections
By losanne Pack ry for the 41st RepreSentative Dis- Rogers of Milton. him if elected to the State Senate. to survive together.
Delaware voters are one step
closer and less than two months
away from the November general
elections that will determine who
represents them in Dover, George-
town and Washington, D.C. Last
week's party primaries set the
candidates in several races in Sus-
sex County including those for the
20th State Senatorial District, the
38th and 41st State Representative
Districts and the 2nd and 3rd Sus-
sex County Councilmanic Dis-
tricts.
In the 20th Senatorial District
Democratic primary, George M.
Bunting Jr. won over Kenneth S.
Clark, 1,767 to 822. He will face
Republican George Cole on Nov.
5
Republican William O. Murray
of Ocean View defeated Bruce E.
Layton in the 38th Representative
District; theirs was one of the
closer races, 939 to 810. In some
precincts, the vote difference was
only slightly more than a dozen
votes.; in one, only two votes sep-
arated the candidates. Shirley A.
Price is the Democratic candidate
in that race.
Incumbent Charles P. West won
a decisive victory over Amanda
A. Steen in the Democratic prima-
37th District
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would give citizens the ability to
choose what school and what kind
of education they want."
"With choice this year [allow-
ing students to move freely be-
tween school districts rather than
requiring them to attend where
they live] we saw for the first time
in several years students moving
back from private schools to pub-
lic schools," said Schroeder.
"But they're not choosing to go
to the low-performing schools,"
said Crystal.
More for the 37th
Crystal, who lived in New Cas-
tle County for several years before
moving permanently to Sussex in
1991, noted that he has several
friends who are members of the
Republican-controlled state
House of Representatives and said
further that his wife, Betty, works
as secretary in the House to
Speaker of the House Terry
Spence. Because he already has
connections and, if elected, would
be part of the House's majority
Republican party, Crystal said he
would be able to get more state
funds for large projects in the 37th
district.
"Rt. 40 up north is experiencing
similar growth problems to Rt. 1,"
said Crystal. "I watched a bi-par-
tisan group get together up there
to try to address a problem at the
intersection on Rt. 1 and Rt. 7.
DelDOT came up with $3 r" lion
plus. I wrote a letter on April 17
saying if there was money for that
project there should be some for
the 37th district. I asked what
plans there were to address, in the
trict;the vote totals are 1,007-433.
The 2Oyear veteran of the state
house was not deterred by his 75
years of age. He will face
Nicholas Varrato in the November
elections.
In a Republican race for the
Sussex County Council 2nd
Councilmanic District, S. Allen
"Skip" Pikus of Milford won over
Samuel R. Wilson in another rela-
tively close race, 654-556. Pikus
managed to pull ahead of his op-
ponent in several precincts in Wil-
son's hometown of Georgetown
which contributed to the victory.
Finley Jones Jr. is the Democratic
opponent in that race.
The 3rd Councilmanic District
of Sussex County Council saw
one of the more widely contested
primary races with two facing off
in the Democratic election and
three on the Republican side of
the ballot.
Republican Richard Clendaniel
of Lincoln eked out a 570-522 win
over Richard Collins. Clen-
daniel's home territory around
Milford, Lincoln and Ellendale
plus some in-roads into Collin's
hometown area around Lewes
pulled him ahead. The winner in
the Democratic primary is Lynn J.
next five years, problems involv-
ing Rt. 1, Rt. 9 and Rt. 24. The re-
sponse I got was that DelDOT had
no plans to address problems in
those areas with significant funds.
I haven't seen that kind of effort
from the representatives here to
get something done. I would
work with the Republican majori-
ty, form a coalition message, meet
with DelDOT Secretary Canby
and let them know it's about time
DelDOT spent some money here.
DelDOT has no plans to build
new roads here. That's unaccept-
able."
"I'm not sure many people want
to see more roads built," said
Schroeder. "We fought the east-
west bypass 4-5 years ago. That
would have cut a 350 foot wide
swath from Bridgeville here. We
fought and I'm proud to say we
killed that plan. $50 million's
been spent in the 37th in the past
eight years and I'm not sure I'm
proud of that. Ann Canby's not
for building new roads. She's for
improving what we have. Never
in my eight years have I had one
person who visits here tell me that
they need to get here fifteen min-
utes faster."
"Where would you put new
roads?" Mike Tyler asked Crystal.
"We don't know what our needs
will be in the years to come," said
Crystal. "I'm not saying we nec-
essarily need new roads. What
I'm saying is that the residents
should be the ones to decide
what's needed and that the repre-
sentative should work with Del-
DOT to get those desires met."
Crystal is running on the Re-
publican ticket and Schroeder on
the Democratic ticket. Voter reg-
istration deadline for the election
is Oct. 15.
Rogers out-polled his two oppo-
nents, John J. McQuaid of Ellen-
dale and Micheal C. Miller of
Lewes, in every precinct of the
district ; the vote totals are
Rogers-469; McQuaid-156;
Miller-130.
Most candidates commented on
what they felt was a clean, fair
campaign. In Bunting's case, he
said he is pleased with his victory,
however, he took no great plea-
sure in defeating his long-time
friend Kenneth Clark. As many
other victors in the Sept. 7 prima-
ry, he gave credit to his volunteers
for months of hard work. Bunting
said that issues of planning and
coordinating with Sussex County
Council will be of importance to
He believes the county should
take a role in sharing the cost and
responsibility for drug enforce-
ment; and he remains a strong
supporter of the Farmland Preser-
vation Program.
Clendaniel expressed much the
same feelings of gratitude for his
supporters, and acknowledged
that a very strong, well-run cam-
paign had been waged by his op-
ponent. He said he is pleased and
thankful for the support that he
gained in the Lewes area. The
Sussex County farmer said that he
will continue to follow his prima-
ry platform that emphasizes keep-
ing the county strong with plan-
ning that allows agriculture, resi-
dential development and business
The man who will be his oppo-
nent for the 3rd Councilmanic
District seat, Rogers said addi-
tional items for his campaign
agenda may develop as the No-
vember elections draw closer. For
now, he continues to emphasize
the importance of controlling traf-
fic in the county and keeping
emergency services strong.
West said that he had more vol-
unteers working on his behalf in
this primary race than he had ever
had before; and he said they are
rearing to go for the November
general election. Already a veter-
an in the Delaware General As-
sembly, West said that a key to
serving a constituency is to adapt
to changes in legislature.
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