DOVER, Del. (AP) - A state senator who is seeking the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor says her husband, a New Castle County housing inspector, did not improperly use confidential public housing records to solicit votes for her during her 2014 re-election campaign.
Sen. Bethany Hall-Long said Thursday that an internal review by county officials last year cleared her husband, Dana Long, of any wrongdoing.
Hall-Long also said she is frustrated that she and her husband have been pulled into a longstanding feud involving county executive Tom Gordon and his former top deputy, David Grimaldi.
In a telephone conversation secretly recorded by Grimaldi last year and first reported on by WDEL-FM, Gordon suggested that he did not want Long fired because he was married to the senator, whom Gordon considered an ally in Dover.