Deleting with Instead Trigger in Oracle 8i

I am having a little issue when I run the Instead trigger I created. When I run the trigger against the view created, I get the confirmation that the row has been deleted. I then check to make sure it is gone, but it still exists. The trigger inserts and updates fine, but when it comes to removal of the row, there seems to be a problem. I checked the delete code in sqlplus to make sure the code is correct and deletions go according to plan.
Any insight on my little issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Alex-

The trigger code goes as follows:

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER contracttrig
INSTEAD OF INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE ON contractorsview DECLARE
CURSOR get_con_ID(got_con_ID IN NUMBER)
IS
select conID
from contractors
where conID = got_con_ID;
keep_con_ID NUMBER;

BEGIN
OPEN get_con_ID(:new.conID);
FETCH get_con_ID INTO keep_con_ID;

IF INSERTING THEN

	INSERT INTO contractors(	conID,
					conFirstName, 
					conLastName,
					conAddress,
					conAddress2,
					conCity,
					conState, 
					conZipCode, 
					conPhone#, 
					conCell#, 
					conFax#, 
					conEmail)
	VALUES(	:new.conID,


		:new.conFirstName,

		:new.conLastName, 

		:new.conAddress,

		:new.conAddress2,

		:new.conCity,

		:new.conState,

		:new.conZipCode,

		:new.conPhone#,

		:new.conCell#,

		:new.conFax#,

		:new.conEmail); 


	INSERT INTO contractorsMV(	conIDMV,
					conSpeciality) 
	VALUES(	:new.conID, 


		:new.conSpeciality); 

ELSIF UPDATING THEN
	UPDATE contractors
	SET
	conFirstName = :new.conFirstName, 
	conLastName = :new.conLastName,
	conAddress = :new.conAddress,
	conAddress2 = :new.conAddress2,
	conCity = :new.conCity,
	conState = :new.conState,
	conZipCode = :new.conZipCode,
	conPhone# = :new.conPhone#,
	conCell# = :new.conCell#,
	conFax# = :new.conFax#,
	conEmail = :new.conEmail
	WHERE conID = :new.conID; 
	
	UPDATE contractorsMV 
	SET 
	conSpeciality = :new.conSpeciality 
	WHERE conIDMV = :new.conID; 

ELSIF DELETING THEN
	DELETE FROM contractorsMV
	WHERE conIDMV = :new.conID; 
	
	DELETE FROM contractors
	WHERE conID = :new.conID;