Depending on a person's personal experience with a political candidate, the opinion of that candidate may vary from favorable to unfavorable. For example, someone wrote the Cape Gazette that Sen. Russ Huxtable was unresponsive to their inquiries. Sen. Huxtable answered my email and phone call regarding an error the Delaware Division of Revenue had made with taxes already paid, and then resolved this issue with that office. Conversely, I wrote a polite letter to U.S. Sen. Chris Coons asking whether or not the government can do anything about the increase in scam callers who illegitimately use fraudulent IDs on their phones to reach consumers. I never received a response, even after I called Sen. Coons’ office a few months later.
Similarly, some people have endorsed Kim Hoey Stevenson for state senator. I recall reading that Stevenson's qualifications included her eight-year tenure as a member of the Sussex County Planning & Zoning Commission. This is the commission that has brought us to our dire situation today with unchecked growth, traffic gridlock and the approvals of almost every development application in this region for the past 10 years. Stevenson's candidacy is a red flag for me. Can she substantiate that she worked against the numerous rubber-stamp decisions that produced massive, unchecked growth in this region, a surge that continues frantically?
DelDOT and developers' planners continue to sell inaccurate planning projections (in the Northstar development application, both claim that 13,000 more cars a day on Route 9 is perfectly reasonable) while our locale has the largest number of residents in southern Sussex County, with only one vote on the Sussex County Council. If there was a way to replace all the members of the Sussex County Planning & Zoning Commission and the long-ruling members on Sussex County Council, I would endorse it wholeheartedly.
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