Majority of 11 nominees are women or minorities
With decisions from last nights primary in Virginia, Republicans have nominated the most diverse slate of candidates for US House ever.
Indeed, five are white males, including our four incumbent House reps Rob Wittman (1st), Bob Good (5th), Ben Cline (6th), Morgan Griffith (9th). In the 11th, Jim Myles is the GOP nominee.
But the list of new nominees is impressive in terms of women and minorities:
2nd district Sen. Jen Kiggans (I was very excited she beat back a vicious smear campaign by two of her opponents and believe she will defeat incumbent Rep. Elaine Luria in November). Sen. Kiggans is a geriatric nurse and former Navy helicopter pilot.
3d district Terry Namkung, part Korean and part African American.
4th district The Rev. Leon Benjamin, African American minister from Richmond.
7th district Prince William Supervisor Yesli Vega (Her family is from El Salvadore AND I believe will be elected the first Latino to the US House from Virginia).
8th district Karina Lipsman, a Soviet Jewish emigree, who came to America in the 1970s from the Ukraine, raised by her single mom in a Baltimore public housing project.
10th district Capt. Hung Cao, USN (Ret.) Born in South Vietnam, came to the US as a refugee as a child, Naval Academy grad, a Navy Seal, and a career Naval intelligence officer.
Okay, my fellow Republicans, you will say who cares what skin color or sex they are?
The national media and pundits care, and thats where a number of voters get their information in a national election. But the media only often crow about diversity when Democrats break the glass or color ceiling such as first Native American or LGBTQ elected or appointed to this office or that.
There has been little coverage outside the conservative media about Yesli Vega or Maya Flores, the Texas Republican who won a special election in the US House in a very Democratic district.
Obviously, the fact Latinos are leaving the Democratic Party in droves to vote for Republican candidates (and yes, run as Republicans) defies the Leftist narrative that our party is nativistic and anti-immigrant. No, its the Democrats who do little for blacks, Latinos and pretty much everyone else except the radical activists and pressure groups that control their party, and the elite rich liberals who dont have to deal with bad schools, crime and inflation.
So, with this diverse field of Virginia GOP candidates, we have a lot crowing to do. We need to help these great Republicans win big in November and send a message to Joe Biden and the Leftists that we want our country back.
The following are the websites for all GOP U.S. House candidates in Virginia:
1st Rob Wittman https://robwittman.com/
2nd Jen Kiggans https://jenforcongress.com/
3rd Terry Namkung https://namkungforvirginia.com/
4th Leon Benjamin https://benjamin4congress.com/
5th Bob Good https://www.bobgoodforcongress.com/
6th Ben Cline https://bencline.com/
7th Yesli Vega https://yeslivega.com/
8th Karina Lipsman https://www.karinaforcongress.com/
9th Morgan Griffith https://www.morgangriffithforcongress.com/
10th Hung Cao https://www.hungcaoforcongress.com/
11th Jim Myles https://mylesforcongress.com/meet-jim.html
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Leon Benjamin (VA-04) is a joke; a sacrificial lamb.
Benjamin is the CEO of “Virginias for America First”, an Astroturf rightwing propaganda organization funded by the Koch Brothers, trying to overturn Virginia’s elections.
Benjamin lost to Rep. Don McEachin in 2020 by the margin of 68 – 32. Benjamin will lose again.
Hey Erica… one of Bribem’s economic geniuses reiterated, Pelosi’s statement that government spending isn’t inflationary! Nancy also said it doesn’t add to the deficit… Boy with geniuses like these running or rather ruining the country…. I guess Russia doesn’t have to work to hard (to cite your bogyman)….. Old Vlad just sits back and watches the moron s burn the place down.. He must get a chuckle out of your great leaders. I know we do!
Meawhile, there’s this:
Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) told the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show that there were 52 states in the country while attempting to criticize Stacey Abrams (D) for saying Georgia is the worst state in the country to live.
Said Walker: If you dont believe in the country, leave and go somewhere else. If its the worst state, why are you here? Why dont you leave ? go to another? Theres, what, 51 more other states that you can go to?
QUESTION: Is it against the law in Georgia to give water to someone standing in line for a DNA test to see if Walker is their father?
Well how about that. Bet you don’t remember when Obama or Zero as I like to call him, said he campaigned in all 56 states? So there are four more for Stacy to go to! They sure don’t make Harvard law school graduates worth crap do they? Get your dumbass back to Media Matters punk…
Erica… pronoun She It… you’re always lurking here like a case of veneral disease waiting to break out again… Bribem is talking about a suspension of the federal gas tax. You, being the jagoff that you are… were pointing out that Youngkin’s proposed tax cuts are inflationary.. ha ha moron… If that gas tax holiday passes… well you moron… it is going to make the energy shortage even WORSE… You were telling us about how Bribem’s admin is pumping more gas that ever blah blah blah.. I guess that is why the prices are so high. But a gas tax holiday will increase consumption of the one commodity that is behind driving up prices most directly.
You and your bros are so free of the ravages of intelligence.
One of the things to look forward to is the day that the District of Corruption can no longer lavish billions of dollars on you stupid libtards in Nova.. and your housing prices crater… Who would have known that Bribem and his policies were going to screw government and its useless parasites in Nova… He’s a true conservative Erica…
Moral of the story: Everyone loves freedom.
Indeed, five are white males, including our four incumbent House reps Rob Wittman (1st), Bob Good (5th), Ben Cline (6th), Morgan Griffith (9th). In the 11th, Jim Myles is the GOP nominee.
Yuck…………..I hate the way Wittman votes………spineless yes man
Good is a goddamn liar……….and not Christian at all. Hateful man
Shout out to the Republican Party for making freedom a reality for millions of African American slaves living in the US in 1865.
Plus, more than 500 million East europeans due to Reagan bringing down the Berlin Wall and communism. Now, the Left wants to ensure Communism makes a comeback!
“I was very excited she beat back a vicious smear campaign by two of her opponents and believe she will defeat incumbent Rep. Elaine Luria in November”
So advertising their Democrat/left leaning voting is a vicious smear campaign? I have watched her own people personally attack, using idiots to call folks, as just one example. When Senator Louise Lucas said that Jarome Bell was the ‘most dangerous Republican’ in the 757, that alone tells us everything we need to know.
You can’t defeat people who vote for you in the primary so they can vote for Luria in November. https://amac.us/is-it-time-to-close-the-door-on-open-primaries/
As for the 4th district, we’ll get another repeat of the 2022 election – massive loss. https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia%27s_4th_Congressional_District
were you aware Democrats were putting indirect mail advertising Jarome as the MAGA Conservative in an effort to get him the nomination What does that tell you? But please see to it he calls Jen Kiggans, congratulates her and offers to help her win in the fall
That would be a first for him because to my knowledge, Bell hasn’t helped any GOP candidate except himself.
Senator Louise Lucas had tweeted that Jarome Bell was the most dangerous Republican in 757. They needed to make sure he didn’t get elected. There was also the announcement by someone who doesn’t come all the time to certain R meetings, the first one made, that a Democratic PAC had been advertising about him. That person indicated that they didn’t believe Jarome was Democrat. Also, no one found any money tied to Jarome.
Since he has a MAGA platform, not Jen’s where her voting record, her refusal to show up at forums or debates, etc. all that indicates a Democrat bent. RINO.
Why do you want to congratulate a RINO who gets in? Look at what happens to us in Congress with that? Our 2A rights are getting removed.
Btw, why would Tommy Altman or Andy Baan help other candidates? I never saw them do that. Don’t expect them to either. Especially given the questions were all on voting record or showing up or not at forums/debates, etc.? If you can’t answer those questions, why do you think the D’s are not going to show that she is a weak candidate?
andy came to jen’s victory party that night and endorsed her. that shows he’s magnanimous in defeat. We are supposed to congratulate our opponents, not stiff them. I would think folks in the Navy should learn about sportsmanship? And, Andy has most indeed helped other GOP candidates. so, if you have Jarome’s ear, please encourage him to not be a spoiled loser like Trump, but think about his future in the Republican Party and work for the ticket this fall.
Andy wasn’t really in contention. You can’t treat people like poop during the campaign and then think they’ll have anything to do with you. One very wise (I’m finding out) person stated that the way the other campaigns’ and candidates were treated by Jen’s crew, would lead to them backing off. Calling folks idiots, your comments of spoiled losers (especially in regards to Trump, where many do appreciate him) and indicating Mr. Bell is selfish, will never induce me or others to do your work for you or work for others. If you have a problem, talk with him on it. We’re not your lackeys. I have others to volunteer for that don’t treat people that way.
It was made abundantly clear from Jen’s campaign that she didn’t owe folks anything on why she wasn’t at forums, nor on her votes that many had questions on. If they don’t owe us anything, none of us owe them anything. All the bragging I saw about getting > 50% of the vote, well you all don’t need us to win then. We are fine with that – go for it. We wish you luck.
Establishment should stop expecting that once their preferred, paid for by PACs, particular candidate wins, people salute. In Chesapeake, they pulled something similar and we put a formerly R candidate/elected official 1st on the ballot when the establishment decided they knew better than the voters.
The future of the party is in doubt when there is an establishment out of touch with the voters, and who refuse to allow voters to make the choices.
Sportsmanship is not treating people as they’re non entities and then expecting them to kiss your ring.
Reconciliation goes both ways, Vic. If you and Jarome feel her followers were doing something that hurt, ,thats where talking it out with Jen and her people works. here’s a process for the nomination and one person wins, the rest lose. At some point, when the hurt heals, I would hope you, Jarome, etc. will join the gop fold and work within the party to make things different. But I think you are missing the bigger picture, which is to rollback Democrat socialism in this nation, and the only entity equipped to do that is the Republican Party — which is doing far better now in the eyes of voters due to the horrible mess the Democrats have created. Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. It will get you nowhere.
Let me be clear, I am a supporter and volunteer of Jarome Bell. I am not campaign staff, manager or anything else. I have a yard sign of his. That’s it. So your *assumption* of “you and Jarome” has zero place in this conversation. I repeat what I stated: you need to discuss the issue with him, not me.
After you and other Jen staff/followers/volunteers have downgraded other campaign folks, and now refuse to deal with that manner, don’t blame us like a Democrat for how some respond. I do believe I’m not the only one who has taken umbrage, but I can be wrong (unlike you apparently). Mr. Frost made a comment on one of the forums that stuck in my mind and it had to do with the condescension surrounding the campaign.
Hurt heals? I have been thru/volunteered for, a ton of elections, so your *assumption* of hurt was extremely incorrect. I would have witnesses who will cooberate that statement. I don’t become hurt in politics.
You “think I am missing the big picture”? No. You do not know me. I do believe though, from Leesburg/surrounding area discussions, that your hubris is one of the issues involved with your participation in politics. It certainly is in my case. You got up and left the table across from where I was sitting when you decided to come to the Chesapeake tailgate. You didn’t bother to try to understand and look at my views: rather you walked away and sat with others at the opposite end. You had never attended local matters that I saw, nor spoke on them in the Hampton Roads area.
Your past history and behavior, like now, will not get you anywhere either. Good luck.
I learned since the last post that Jarome and Jen exchanged phone calls, but did not actually speak to each other. So, that’s a good sign, and I hope there will be a reconciliations so we can move on. But in your latest missive, it seems to me that you feel marginalized by many people in the party, including myself for dissing you at some event. well, I do apologize for that. Welcome to the club. Even when I served in elected office, I cannot begin to tell you how many Republicans , would not return my calls or emails and dissed me, too. Politics can be ugly and hurtful; a contact sport. Yet, each year , I dusted off the hurt and got out there to support the ticket — including candidates I bristled with and for folks who never returned the favor to me. I learned that some times, you have to give without any expectation of getting anything in return (even a ‘thank you’) But I will thank you and am glad you’re involved in Hampton Roads
Exactly as I said – go talk to the people involved.
People who call others ‘idiots’, tell them/candidates to ‘back off’ because its only Jen, denigrate others, all Jen’s mgmt/volunteer/supporters. My personal experience is I’ve not seen it out of others with 2 exceptions (not in 2nd district). People can be ‘off’: just don’t expect others to take it and/or volunteer for their candidate. Its been made clear that help isn’t welcome, we will oblige.
I have other folks to volunteer for. Good luck with the campaign (again).