Representative Ruth Briggs-King Kicks-off Campaign

RBK Event     This morning in Georgetown, Representative Ruth Briggs-King (R) for the 37th Representative District of Delaware, was joined by family, friends and supporters, to officially announce the kick-off of her re-election campaign.

Representative Briggs-King was also joined by some of her fellow GOP elected officials in a show of support.

GOP elected officials   They included, state Representatives Harvey Kenton, Dave Wilson, Ron Grey, and Minority Leader Danny Short, along with Senator Brian Pettyjohn and newly elected Georgetown Town Councilman David Anderson. Also on hand, but not in the photo was candidate for Sussex County Sheriff, Robert Lee.

Rep. Briggs-King spoke to the fact that communication is key in good governance. That if the people are better informed, and those they elect are better informed, then we will all benefit, or as she said, “know better, do better”.

Rep. Briggs-King spoke of her support, and the importance  of Delaware’s system of elected school boards and the need to maintain that system. She spoke of the 2nd Amendment and public safety, no coincidence in linking the two I am sure.

Rep. Briggs-King voiced her disappointment with the failure of the economic policies of the one party rule of the Democrats in Dover, and asked the question, “have you had enough”?

She then stated her commitment, when re-elected, to represent the people of the 37th Delaware Representative District, to fight for lower taxes and debt for the tax payers of the state, and to reduce the amount of regulation in order to improve the business climate in Delaware, in order to grow the economy and lessen the need to raise taxes.

I do not live in the 37th, but I have found Rep. Ruth Briggs-King to be one of the most tenacious legislators in Dover.  She unfortunately is one of a very few legislators that actually reads the bills before she signs onto them, or votes on them. In her time in the General Assembly she has been involved on committees dealing with the budget, and has always been a voice for the people who believe,  we can do more, for less than we are currently.

Rep. Briggs-King has shown the ability to hear the people, not just listen to the people, and when her district was gerrymandered in an attempt by the ruling Democrats to put her election in jeopardy, she worked to learn what her new constituents needs were, and she addressed them.

In other words, to “know better, do better”.

I encourage the voters of the 37th Delaware Representative District to come out in support of a proven leader, Ruth Briggs-King.    

 

18 Comments on "Representative Ruth Briggs-King Kicks-off Campaign"

  1. delacrat says:

    “Rep. Briggs-King spoke of her support, and the importance of Delaware’s system of elected school boards and the need to maintain that system. She spoke of the 2nd Amendment and public safety,”

    According to her website:http://www.meetruth.com/

    Ruth Briggs King“Supports and defends the second amendment to ensure gun rights for citizens.” and has the NRA’s endorsement.

    Parent’s of school age kids in the 37th Representative District would do well to consider their state rep’s pro-school shooting agenda this November.

  2. Frank Knotts says:

    Delacrat, the voters would also do well to consider the Democrat fringe’s attempt at a bizarre connecting of 2nd Amendment rights with school shootings, thank you for coming here and representing the Democrat fringe.

  3. delacrat says:

    Frank,

    Pretending that gun owners have nothing to do with school shootings is what’s truly bizarre.

  4. Frank Knotts says:

    With that logic, we should just do away with schools since that is where school shootings happen.

  5. delacrat says:

    Frank,

    “Pretending that gun owners have nothing to do with school shootings is what’s truly bizarre.” – delacrat

    “With that logic, we should just do away with schools since that is where school shootings happen.” – Frank

    FYI, people with schools don’t kill people, people with guns do.

    Keep the schools. Get rid of the guns.

  6. kavips says:

    I too support and defend the second amendment to ensure gun rights for citizens. What I don’t see is why we can’t register and track firearms used in killings and make someone accountable for the damages….

    If my son steals my gun and kills others then himself…. I should be accountable. I didn’t keep my guns safe. Just as any business is accountable if someone slips on a banana. Likewise, if he didn’t use my gun, but bought one even though he was on the list of not allowed to have one, then that person should be sued and lose everything to pay for the damage…..

    Just like we track the titles of cars, so we can trace the owners when we find drugs being run inside of them. so we can register and track all firearms….

    That affects no one’s right to own a gun.

  7. Frank Knotts says:

    The idea that if we just remove, or track guns, then people will stop killing people is simplistic at best. some three-thousand people were killed on 9/11 and not a single gun was involved. Should we remove planes from the world, who should have been punished for the hi-jackers taking over the planes? Should the airlines been held responsible?
    No, sick people who want to kill large numbers of people will find a way.

  8. delacrat says:

    “Just like we track the titles of cars, so we can trace the owners when we find drugs being run inside of them. so we can register and track all firearms” – kavips

    While your argument is in the spirit of the Second Amendment’s “well-regulated militia” clause, today’s pick-and-choose “conservatives” dismiss “well-regulated” as “Big Government”.

  9. kavips says:

    I agree with everything Frank said… But couldn’t help but notice how he shifted the topic away from registering vehicles at the DMV to removing planes from the world….

    As I said above in my opening statement, I certainly agree with Frank that we shouldn’t remove planes from the world, so that would mean I agree with all Frank said.. But the fact remains, that we do register cars…. we register dogs…. we register exotic pets…. we register boilers, believe it or not…

    We don’t solve every problem by registering things… Just that when something goes wrong, we can find the person accountable… Stealing cars I believe hasn’t stopped because of policies at the DMV…. But when we find them, we know who they belonged to….

    Registering guns is a calm, rational, sensible way to make it harder in the heat of a moment to shoot someone without being accountable… Knowing one will be found out, may just in several or more cases, stop a shooting from happening……. When I get murdered, I certainly hope the gun is registered so they can find the owner of the gun and incarcerate him…..

  10. Frank Knotts says:

    Kavips, let’s not shift the debate. We were talking about school shootings. Can you point to any school shooting in the last ten years that we didn’t know who the shooter was? They are most times found laying in a pool of their own blood from a self inflicted wound.
    As for registering guns, only legally bought guns will be registered, how will you track the guns bought illegally? What if my gun is stolen, and I have followed all the rules, including reporting it stolen. Now my gun is on the black market and can only be traced back to me.
    You are trying to solve a mental illness by registering guns. Won’t work my friend, people will find ways to kill people if that is what they choose to do.

  11. delacrat says:

    “Kavips, let’s not shift the debate.” – Frank

    Yes, Frank take your own advice.

    Let’s not shift the debate (and blame) to schools, planes, motor vehicles and anything else that’s necessary for a 21st century society from guns, (which are not)

  12. Frank Knotts says:

    Delacrat, must live in Candy Mountain Land! “Let’s not shift the debate (and blame) to schools, planes, motor vehicles and anything else that’s necessary for a 21st century society from guns, (which are not)”
    Maybe you live next to your local police station, but some people live in areas where their only defense against home invasions and other crimes is their ability to aim and fire.
    You seem to ignore the reality that there is no way to stop people who want to kill people from doing so. You believe that removing guns from the world (not possible) would end the killing.

  13. delacrat says:

    “Maybe you[delacrat] live next to your local police station, but some people live in areas where their only defense against home invasions and other crimes is their ability to aim and fire.” – Frank

    Actually, I don’t live next to a police station.

    Your claim that an “ability to aim and fire” is an “only defense against home invasions” is ludicrous. Home invasions are easily prevented by simple measures like locked doors and avoiding giving an impression my residence has anything anyone would want to steal (like a gun collection).

  14. Frank Knotts says:

    Delacrat, you really need to get out more, you are spending way too much time at home reading the “Progressive Playbook For World Domination”.
    So to prevent home invasions I should lock my doors and that will solve it, and I should live in a run down shack so no one wants to break in? And I have to tell you, I have yet to see anyone’s home with big signs that say, “lot of guns here”.
    tell me, do you get dizzy from all of that rarified air on Sugar Candy Mountain?

  15. kavips says:

    In answer to Frank’s question of how will we track illegal guns…

    You can’t. But having cars on the road illegally does not stop us from registering cars. For the simple reason, it that if you don’t register cars, how do you know when you walk up to it, if a car is legal or illegal?

    Case in point with guns. Traffic stop. Cop says can I see the gun’s registration? Runs the number and hopefully says,” here you go, have a nice day.” What could be wrong with that?

    It is necessary to draw a line somewhere delineating at what point a gun is legal, and at what point a gun is not, and being able to check it on the spot… That is the argument for registering guns, just like it is used for cars…

    It is a common sense move that hurts only one group of people. Those who have illegal guns and are carrying them around on them…. Now Common sense, says we should be getting those guns out of circulation….

    As for school shootings I concur that this will only have a marginal effect. It will cause parents to keep their guns locked up out of their kids hands, and make if harder for kids to buy illegal guns on the street, and by quite possibly not letting additional guns fall into the wrong hands, it would also not let them be used in moments of anger, which back in the old days still happened, but were settled with fists…

    Fist-fithgs rarely killed any children… Plus it was easier for adult figures to break up than raging gun battles… Really, I cannot see why any conservative who longs for the great times which our generation had, would be against this common sense idea of registering guns like we do pets and cars.

  16. Commonsense says:

    Delacrat here is a message from your king

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qmWhtaTdqB4

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9LshCv0SAXE

    Does he support school shootings?

  17. Frank Knotts says:

    Kavips, come on man, at least make this a little tough. You say, “But having cars on the road illegally does not stop us from registering cars.” And registering cars does not stop us from having cars on the roads illegally.
    As for your traffic stop and gun tale, how does the police officer know to ask for the gun registration? Are we now required to have a sticker on the back of our cars telling everyone we have a gun on board? No of course not, the officer knows because a law abiding citizen will inform the officer if need be, such as the initiation of a search, but the criminals who won’t register the guns anyway will just shoot the officer.
    This is where the idea that more gun laws will stop the criminals falls apart.
    Kavips then says, “It is necessary to draw a line somewhere delineating at what point a gun is legal, and at what point a gun is not, and being able to check it on the spot”.
    Another easy one my friend. A gun is legal until it is involved in a crime. If it is stolen, then the owner has already reported the number as such and it can be identified if an officer comes a crossed it in a traffic stop, or if it is used in a violent crime and is ceased, it has now been made illegal, otherwise it is a legal gun.
    ” would be against this common sense idea of registering guns like we do pets and cars.” Actually I am against pet registration as well, since the only pet forced to be registered on a large scale are dogs, and they can have my dog when they pry her teeth out of their red bleeding asses.

  18. delacrat says:

    ” I cannot see why any conservative who longs for the great times which our generation had, would be against this common sense idea of registering guns …” – kavips

    21st century “conservatives” don’t do common sense because common sense argues against the “conservative” gun position. Instead, the “conservative” is just makes up a straw man argument about people reading “Progressive Playbook For World Domination” on “Sugar Candy Mountain”. It only sounds lame and juvenile because it is.

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