2: Paragraph 21 Delaware law limits a governor to two four-year
terms. In 1988 Republican Michael Castle was re-elected, and Republican
Dale E. Wolf was elected lieutenant governor. The lt. governor had been
Democrat S. B. "Landslide" Woo, so called because he won by a handful of
votes on the recount of the 1984 election, but in 1988 he ran against
Roth for the Senate.
2: Paragraph 22 Delaware has some fairly specific campaign-financing
laws on its books, but like many sections of the Delaware Code, those
statutes are considered unconstitutional, and therefore unenforceable,
except when Oberly wants to convict a potential political rival. He is
on record calling those statutes invalid insofar as they limit the
amount he, as a candidate, can spend on his campaign. One provision
prohibits campaign contributions of more than $1000 to statewide
candidates.
2: Paragraph 23 In 1988 Castle's campaign committee had more than
enough money for his re-election, but Wolf's didn't have enough for his
harder-fought campaign, so Castle's committee covered some of Wolf's
campaign expenditures, and the Democrat Wolf beat filed a complaint for
violation of that provision. You know who enforces those laws: AG
Oberly. He had spent the past couple of years convicting the Democrats
who had controlled the state party of picayune violations of the
contribution laws, so they were forced out of politics and, in one or
two cases, went to jail.
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