State Senator Ronald L. Rice (D-28) today issued a statement of support for Dover mayoral candidate Carolyn Blackman.

“With a meager and mediocre record of accomplishments as mayor, incumbent James Dodd is most known for exhibiting bombastic behavior, hurling outrageously offfensive language and raging, out of control, openly on public streets,” Rice said of the incumbent.

“If Dover wants a mayor who conducts herself with dignity, serves with intelligence, vision, works her heart out to uphold her fellow citizens and uplift the community, the choice is clearCarolyn Blackman for mayor to lead Dover onward and upward.”

Rice’s endorsement stands alongside that of his legislative ally, former Governor Dick Codey, who is also working in Dover to elect Blackman.

“I want to beat him,” Codey told InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack last month in reference to Dodd.

According to Snowflack:

Codey said he and the mayor had a run-in awhile back when the state senator came to town to check out conditions at a veterans’ home. Codey does this sort of thing often.

More than that, Codey told the crowd that Dodd is not a real Democrat, noting that the mayor backed Chris Christie’s gubernatorial bid in 2013.