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"Bodie's" campaign for senate claims Booth not eligible because he's a teacher. [View all]
You can't make this stuff up.
Bodenweiser runs for Senate seat
Georgetown Republican challenges Booth, again
By Kara Nuzback | May 25, 2012
Eric Bodenweiser
GEORGETOWN — A Georgetown 9-12 Patriot is challenging Sen. Joe Booth for the second consecutive election cycle. Eric Bodenweiser, 53, filed for the 19th District Senate seat May 23.
This will be Bodenweiser’s second primary against Booth, R-Georgetown. He lost the seat to Booth by a little more than 100 votes in a September 2010 primary election.
In October 2010, Booth took a job working for Sussex Technical High School, with a starting salary of nearly $60,000, plus $17,000 in benefits. Bodenweiser said in a press release if the news of Booth’s new position had been publicized before the primary, it would have turned the race in Bodenweiser’s favor. “That will be one of the biggest issues in the campaign,” he said.
Bodenweiser said Booth had the job lined up, but campaigned on a platform of being a small businessman. “That’s the definition of corruption,” he said.
If elected, Bodenweiser said he would sponsor a bill to keep legislators from double dipping, or taking state jobs while in office....
Georgetown Republican challenges Booth, again
By Kara Nuzback | May 25, 2012
Eric Bodenweiser
GEORGETOWN — A Georgetown 9-12 Patriot is challenging Sen. Joe Booth for the second consecutive election cycle. Eric Bodenweiser, 53, filed for the 19th District Senate seat May 23.
This will be Bodenweiser’s second primary against Booth, R-Georgetown. He lost the seat to Booth by a little more than 100 votes in a September 2010 primary election.
In October 2010, Booth took a job working for Sussex Technical High School, with a starting salary of nearly $60,000, plus $17,000 in benefits. Bodenweiser said in a press release if the news of Booth’s new position had been publicized before the primary, it would have turned the race in Bodenweiser’s favor. “That will be one of the biggest issues in the campaign,” he said.
Bodenweiser said Booth had the job lined up, but campaigned on a platform of being a small businessman. “That’s the definition of corruption,” he said.
If elected, Bodenweiser said he would sponsor a bill to keep legislators from double dipping, or taking state jobs while in office....
He says, "that is the definition of corruption"???
WTF? Eric Bodenweiser is a high school grad (barely) that worked for many years as a bellhop in Ocean City until his father, a successful Sussex county businessperson with a string of convenience stores, finally brought him into the business. He was relieved of his position after a few years and the business was sold.
As far as I know, that is the extent of his business experience. But the most important part of the campaign, as "Bodie" sees it, is the fact that a part time legislator is a teacher.
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