Colin Rafferty Marie Jude Bonini

Background

Born April 14, 1965, Bonini is the son of Stanford University Emeritus Professor of Business Charles Bonini and Doctor Cissie Bonini Rafferty, a Professor of History.

Education

Wesley College.

Career

His identical twin brother Griffin Bonini is a Superior Court Judge in Santa Clara County, California. Bonini received his Bachelor of Arts from Wesley College in 1991. He has been married to Doctor Melissa A. Harrington, a full professor of biology at Delaware State University, since 2001 and they live at Moores Lake just south of Dover.

State senate

The 16th State Senate District is a sprawling suburban, rural and small town section of southern and eastern Kent County along with a small portion of adjacent Sussex County.

lieutenant includes the southern portions of Dover around the Dover Air Force Base, the towns of Frederica and Harrington, but carefully excludes the incorporated portions of the town of Milford. Bonini has represented the 16th Senate District in the Delaware State Senate since 1995.

In the 147th General Assembly, Bonini served on the following committees:

Adult & Juvenile Corrections

Bond (Joint Committee)

Insurance

Highways & Transportation

Banking

2010 state treasurer campaign

In 2010, he unsuccessfully ran for state Treasurer losing to Democrat Chipman L. Flowers, Junior. in a tight race. Flowers, an attorney, received 51 percent of the vote on November

2 and defeated Bonini by 6,121 votes.

Besides Robert Wagner, the incumbent state auditor since 1989, Bonini received the most votes of any Republican in the 2010 elections in Delaware. Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1. The State Senate has a term of four years.

Election results

Results provided by the Delaware Department of Elections

Senator Bonini was presented with the “Guardian of Small Business Award” by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and was named “Legislator of the Year” by the Republican Party of Kent County.

Achievements

• Senator Bonini was presented with the “Guardian of Small Business Award” by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and was named “Legislator of the Year” by the Republican Party of Kent County. In 2014, he earned a “Legislator of the Year” award from the Food Bank of Delaware for his work to alleviate hunger in Delaware.

Membership

He is a member of the Republican Party and serves in the Delaware General Assembly as State Senator for the 16th State Senate District. Members of the Delaware General Assembly take office the second Tuesday of January.