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Candidate Forum

Last evening (Oct 2) I attended a candidate forum in Tysons Corner.  Unfortunately the Republican invitees – including our own Tom Rust were no-shows.  I suppose facing your constituents is not that important.  The only brave Republican to show was their candidate for Sheriff Mr. Wolfe.  Toward the end of the proceedings, the sheriff candidates who all professed to “believe in the second Amendment” as if it were religion were asked to recite this holy amendment.  Only a Democrat was able to accurately respond.  “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”  The other brave sheriff candidates, gun owners all, and Mr. Wolfe an NRA member even, failed.  A simple sentence, with two phrases, that the candidates “believe in” and they couldn’t even recite it.  These are people who are trying to win an election and then take an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, and don’t even know the Constitution.  If you take elections seriously, the only serious candidate is Stacy Kinkaid, by a wide margin.


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