Just south of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, the Lea Eara Farms and Summit Farms subdivisions are interconnected neighborhoods -- sharing an entrance road off Del. 896 and a maintenance corporation.
Under a proposed redrawing of state House district boundaries, the two communities would be split into separate districts. Summit Farms would remain in the 9th District, while Lea Eara Farms would be added to the 8th District.
Coincidentally or not, Democratic Rep. Rebecca Walker's Republican opponent in the 2010 election will no longer be living in her 9th District next year if the House Democrats' plan is approved as drawn.
"There's no doubt that they played the political game there and wanted to block me out to run again because the race was so close," said John Marino, who lost the 2010 contest to Walker by 282 votes.
Throughout the maps proposed by Democrats who control massive majorities in the Delaware House and Senate, there are examples of former political opponents being drawn out of the district of an incumbent they once faced on the ballot.
Former House Speaker Terry Spence was drawn out of the 18th District, a seat he lost in 2008 to Rep. Michael Barbieri and again in 2010 in a failed comeback.
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Just when you post good local information you post this copy and paste crap. Please get with the program!
Everyone has a right to their own opinion. Our Delaware readers may want to know about something that affects them. You don't like it; that's fine. Simply skip over it. If you think that the only stuff we are going to post is stuff that is within the confines of the city of Salisbury or Wicomico County, I'm sorry.
as a DE resident I'm glad you posted this...some people are never happy...typical self serving liberal cry babies!!
I'm also a Delaware resident and I like seeing articles which affect Sussex County.
I work in Wicomico County MARYLAND so those articles affect me as well.
Thank you for posting!
To GA & Others,
I'm NOT sorry. We are providing information across Delmarva, period. Our friends and neighbors in Sussex County will be included from here on out.
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