Attorney, business owner, to seek Democratic nomination
Chip Flowers of Middletown, founder and managing member of the Flowers Counsel Group, LLC, today filed papers with the Delaware Department of Elections, declaring his intention to seek the 2010 Democratic nomination for state treasurer.
Delaware “continues to be plagued by numerous economic challenges, including an increase in unemployment, major layoffs, low worker morale and state budget shortfalls resulting from our weakened state economy,” Flowers wrote in a letter to state Democratic officials. The campaign will focus on the need to revamp the state treasurer’s office to give it a stronger role in shaping the state’s economic development strategy and to advance “a new agenda aimed at restoring prosperity to the First State,” he said.
“Unlike our sister states, Delaware has not structured the state treasurer’s office to help our state master the economic challenges of the 21st century global economy and assist other state offices and agencies in bringing secure, high-paying jobs to Delaware,” Flowers said.
Flowers founded the Flowers Counsel Group in Wilmington in 2006 after studying government at Harvard University. Prior to attending Harvard, Flowers worked as a mergers and acquisitions attorney at the Wilmington office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. The Flowers Counsel Group, which has added offices in Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C., specializes in procurement law, advising businesses on contractual agreements for major purchases. Flowers’ clients include the DuPont Co., AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Bank of America, Barclay’s Bank Delaware, ING Bank, FSB, the Buccini/Pollin Group and Harvard University.
Flowers first came to Delaware in 1987, when he was 12 and his parents, a military family, were stationed overseas, flying to and from Europe via Dover Air Force Base. He was immediately attracted to the state and chose to settle in Delaware as an adult. He majored in economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his law degree and a Master’s in Business Administration from Georgetown University and earned a Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Flowers was a member of the Delaware delegation to the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He is a former chairman of the Multicultural Lawyers & Judges Section of the Delaware State Bar Association, chief Democratic political analyst on WHYY-TV, and a board member of numerous civic and cultural organizations.
