Not a lot of campaign stops yesterday due to the rain, but Saturday we traveled down to Milford & started off our day at Bob Walls’ kickoff of his re-election campaign for the Delaware House of Representatives.  The Denn boys turned in a tour-de-force.  First, they stuffed their faces with donuts.  Then they wandered into the tent where the speeches were starting and began chattering at each other, which meant retreating out of the tent and into the sun, which meant the one thing that I had been hoping to postpone: application of sunscreen.

My boys react to the application of sunscreen the way that the bad witch in the Wizard of Oz reacts to water.  As I put them successively in hammerlocks and tried to smear it on their faces, concerned Walls supporters began coming out of the tent where Bob was having his announcement to see if I needed help.  It’s just what every candidate wants at his announcement.  Fortunately, Bob was unfazed—in fact, Bob is always unfazed.  That is one of the reasons why we love Bob.

Kent County Democratic Chair Abby Betts was the MC at Bob’s announcement.  At Bob’s announcement two years ago, she announced that her nickname for me was “Precious,” leading to two years of derision.  This year, she forgot to introduce me altogether (or perhaps was simply trying to pretend that the commotion in the back wasn’t happening), and when Bob got up and asked if she had remembered to introduce me, she shouted back “whatever.”  She will need to show the Lieutenant Governor more respect.