Joseph Biden
Joe Biden has proudly served the people of Delaware in the United States Senate since 1972. Through the years, he has become a leading voice in both domestic and foreign policy. No matter where he is, or whom he is meeting with, Joe Biden never forgets where he came from and the reason he's become a national leader: the people of Delaware.
Joe graduated from The University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School and served on the New Castle County Council. Then, at age 29, against almost impossible odds, he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the United States Senate, beating a venerable institution in Delaware, Senator Caleb Boggs.
While most Senators live in Washington, he commutes home every night using public transportation to be with his wife of 30 years, Jill, a school teacher, and his now 90-year-old mother.
They have three children - Beau, Hunter, and Ashley - and five grandchildren.
Education: We are losing too many children in this country, wasting too much talent. We know what we need to do: Stop focusing just on test scores, start education earlier, pay educators more, reduce class size, and make higher education affordable. Health: Joe will work to bring together key health care stakeholders from labor, business, health care and government to seize the historic opportunity created by the recognition that the time has come for universal, affordable health care. Environment: We should not have to worry that a grandfather taking his grandchild fishing is exposing her to dioxin contamination; or that when students turn on a faucet at school, they swallow arsenic – especially when corporate responsibility could prevent it. Public Safety: Fighting crime is like cutting grass. In the summer I cut my grass on a Saturday and it looks great. I let it go for a week, it looks a little shaggy. Let it go for two weeks, I notice it. Let it go for a month, I have the weeds back. Economy: We need to end the War in Iraq that costs more than $100 billion a year, and end $85 billion a year in tax breaks for the wealthiest among us, and start valuing the middle class who built this country.
Christine O'Donnell
Christine O’Donnell is a nationally recognized political commentator and marketing consultant. Christine appears weekly, often daily, on national news outlets such as the Fox News Channel, CNN, C-SPAN, FNC’s O’Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, Entertainment Tonight, ABC’s Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and countless others.
During her twenty-year career, Christine served as a social advocate in Washington, DC, participating in regular White House and Capitol Hill strategy meetings and leading countless delegations to the United Nations to lobby on behalf of pro-family global policies. In the early nineties Christine worked at the Republican National Committee developing the marketing strategy that then Chairman Haley Barbour (current Mississippi Governor) directly credited as having a key role in the historic ’94 Republican Congressional sweep.
Christine serves as a marketing and media consultant to various clients such as Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, Natalia Tsarkova, the Vatican’s first female portrait painter and non-profit organizations such as the World Education and Development Fund, a charity that provides scholarships to children in poor communities throughout Latin America.
Christine was awarded a 2002 Abraham Lincoln Graduate Fellowship in Constitutional Government from the Claremont Institute in Claremont, CA and majored in English and Communications at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ. She resides in the Little Italy area of Wilmington, DE.
Education: Christine will work to ensure that our children do not suffer from funding crises and swings, by exploring Federal solutions to provide continuity. Health: We need to free patients from the government shackles dictating what health care options are available, while creating incentives to develop a market for coverage so patients can select the best care with the best providers that fits their family's needs. Environment: We need to ensure the public consents to costs associated with environmental regulations and the debates about how we clean up the environment is held in the light of day, with full scientific evidence justifying the effectiveness of every regulation. Public Safety: I would vote to return public safety dollars and responsibilities to the communities and States that sent them to Washington rather than letting bureaucrats in Washington take their "cut" first, impose their will for those dollars and then send them back. Economy: By strengthening the dollar, we lower the price of oil. This directly impacts the price at the pump. We don’t need gimmicks to stimulate the economy. We need solutions that address the root cause.
