We Can’t Trust Bethany Hall-Long
Bethany Hall-Long is a walking campaign finance violation…
She broke Delaware law “dozens of times” through repeated campaign finance violations. An independent report showed that the Hall Long’s owe the campaign more than $30,000 and consistently used personal credit cards to garner flight, hotel and travel points although the campaign could cover these expenses with checks.
She funneled over $300,000 in loans and payments to her husband without proper disclosure over the course of seven years.
She has repeatedly accepted donations over the legal limits from unregistered political action committees and individual contributors.
And she hasn’t learned her lesson. Bethany Hall-Long is a career politician who has abused her power to advance her own interests. In fact, her husband used his position as a Section 8 housing property inspector to bully Section 8 housing recipients into voting for his wife.
We can’t trust someone who cheats the system and abuses power like Bethany Hall-Long to govern our state.
That’s why 74% of Democratic voters in Delaware support the Attorney General appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Hall-Long’s series of scandals, and only 29% believe she should even continue her campaign.
Bethany Hall-Long is the “Trump of Delaware” – skirting the law in pursuit of her own ambitions.
But we have the power to stop her! Join us in demanding accountability and honest leadership. Together, we can ensure a brighter future for Delaware.
Join our fight for transparency, diversity, and accountability in Delaware!
What we’re fighting for
Citizens for a New Delaware Way is fighting for transparency, diversity, and accountability in Delaware’s courts and state government. Our platform will put an end to Delaware’s culture of backroom deals and corruption, deliver justice for Delaware’s most vulnerable communities, and put Delaware on a new path towards prosperity, justice, and equity.
Police Reform
Requiring Delaware police officers to wear and have turned on body cameras during every shift
Creating new diversity programs to increase the recruiting and hiring of Black and brown police officers
Abolishing a provision in the Delaware Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights that allows results of investigations to be concealed from the public
Diversity & Inclusion
Increasing representation of people of color on Delaware’s top courts so that the state’s judiciary is representative of the people it serves
Ending the Delaware state government’s reliance on firms with egregious lack of diversity like Skadden, Arps
Ending the “Old Boys’ Club” culture in Delaware politics and law that enriches rich, white men at the expense of everyday Delawareans
Judicial Transparency & Accountability
Establishing an independent Office of Inspector General with a degree of jurisdiction over the Chancery Court, which would ensure a rigorous and regular review process for auditing the Chancery Court’s decisions
Ensuring that appointed Members of Courts can’t serve on the Court of Judiciary, which has the power of judicial review
Ensuring that if a Justice of the Chancery Court appoints a custodian or a receiver to any Firm, Corporation or Officer of the Court for whom they were previously employed or shared business interests with, this conflict must be disclosed and consented to by both parties
Requiring that any custodian or receiver appointed by the Delaware Chancery Court itemize and make public a complete list of costs incurred because of acting in that capacity
Allowing a camera in the Chancery Court to ensure that a public record exists of the Court’s actions, allowing citizens and good government groups to audit the Court’s actions and deliberations to make sure they honor justice and transparency
Requiring ‘wheel spin’ in the Chancery Court so that Chancery Court Chancellors cannot select cases based on their own self-interest
Requiring financial disclosure by Delaware’s judges so the public can see the income they receive outside their judicial salaries, including investments, business and charitable affiliations and gifts