A few of my friends are supporting Shak Hill for Congress. I can’t.
I ran against Barbara Comstock for the Republican nomination in the 10th District in
2014. She beat me—and four other men—handily to take the nomination, and went on
to win a 16 point victory in the fall.
Many of my differences with Barbara are a matter of record, and I don’t take them back.
But so is my full throated support for her in the general elections since. The small
Republican majority in Congress (whatever its deficiencies) is far too important to risk
in this swing district by being cagey about whether we should support her against
Democrats who agree with us about far far less. Unfortunately, the other men that
Barbara bested in that primary refused to work for her in the general. As Ken Cuccinelli
put it, supporting the nominee when you’ve lost a nominating process is “the price of
admission.” It’s a matter of honor—and respect for the same citizens whose votes you
sought.
And that’s the main reason I cannot support Shak Hill for Congress in the primary.
In 2014, Shak ran against Ed Gillespie for the US Senate nomination. Ed won decisively.
But then Shak played the game of being cagey about his support for Ed in the general
election. In fact, when Ed called and directly asked Shak to join Vets for Ed, Shak
refused. And he refused to tamp down the “Write in Shak” campaign being waged by his
own friends and family.
At a time when Ed was coming fast from way behind and almost eked out a victory,
there was needless disunity in the Republican Party of Virginia because Shak didn’t
energetically support our nominee. I believe that if Shak had worked as hard for Ed as I
did for Barbara, specifically to foster unity in the party, we would have Senator
Gillespie representing us on Capitol Hill today instead of a progressive Democrat.
In the fall of 2014, I ran into Shak outside a well attended debate over which part of
Article V of the US Constitution is a better amendment process. At the time, Democrats
were throwing something like $10 Million at beating Barbara in the general. Shak said to
me, “We need to talk about who is going to run when Barbara loses.” He then argued
with me about whether she was going to win in November.
So already he was campaigning, sowing doubt about Barbara’s prospects and trying to
pre-clear the way for his own career, even though the seat and the Republican majority
were at stake.
I don’t think that’s the right spirit of things. Our principles must matter more than our
personal careers.
Noah Webster said in 1789:
“In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or
denomination of the candidate—look to his character.”
Shak is always running for office. He has palm cards with his picture on them even when
he is not a candidate! I respect his military service, but his personality based leadership
rubs me the wrong way.
I hope it’s not churlish to point out some petty things that demonstrate Shak is
challenged when it comes to team play—like the time he put fundraising flyers on all the
cars at my 2015 Senate kickoff, while eating the food and not leaving a contribution, or
the other times that he would crash our fundraisers, eat the food, network, and never
leave a contribution. One time he even went through the stack of checks in the collection
basket to see who had donated. Stay classy, there, Shak. Small-souled acts like these
reveal a lot about how such a person would act in Congress.
I’m all for spirited primaries (conventions are still better!) when they constitute a real
debate about issues that matter. I’m a strict constructionist and would love to see the
party move back in that direction. But let’s not pretend that the way to do that is to run a
candidate who cannot win in November, and only damages the Republican brand. We
would only help elect a Democrat who will vote for a Democrat speaker and vote to impeach the President. That would do nothing to restore the Constitutional order of the
United States.
This is a tough year. If any Republican can hold this seat it is Barbara Comstock, and
only Barbara Comstock. So let’s remember her important contributions—she votes as
even the most conservative person would well more than 90% of the time. And let’s send her back to Congress to hold the House.
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These are points worth considering and ordinarily I would. But these criticisms of Shak pale in comparison with Barbara’s vicious lies about Hill in her latest ads. To seek to falsely and utterly destroy someone’s reputation in the most scurrilous way is the mark of someone without a conscience, I call on Comstock to repudiate and remove these ads. I’m willing to give her a slight benefit of the doubt and say it was her PR people and not she herself behind it. One thing I feel pretty confident about – Frank Wolf would not have run ads like that making baseless and heinous accusations.
Just another RINO. Comstock is a liar. If she cons her way into the nomination again, then we’ll have another communist representative.
One day, I hope someone will run for Congress in the 10th District that I actually want to vote for.
Here I go with holding my nose and voting for the cream of the crap (again, and again, and again).
Consider this: we don’t own our houses or cars, not even if fully paid for. We ourselves stand collateralized to the international bankers, more like cattle than people. Our justice system is a misnomer. And most of us who comment here are being genocided by a political class sanctioned program of demographic Jihad. All of us have been abused, misused and blatantly ignored by the political class for our entire lives. And that’s both parties. And so, now I ask you, does either Shak Hill or Comstack constitute any real push back against the evils that afflict us, or are they all talk and no real action.
Damn straight — we’ve certainly been dealt a crappy hand. Within the party our choice for nominee is a liberal Republican or electing a democrat.
Do we want to move the football down the field, even a couple of feet, or do we want to turn it over?
I could have made the list of grievances much, much longer because nearly everything in America is an act of fraud under some kind of cover. Just today, I learned from McKibben, head of Leader Technologies, how corporations steal patents from the small guy start-up inventors by litigating them to death under a Congressional enactment that makes this kind of thing ‘legally’ an easy thing to do for cash rich large corporations. He ought to know because he wrote the software stolen by Deep State Zuck. And really not any different than the McBundy clan being ‘legally’ railroaded off of their land. And yet people want to talk about sell-out Globalist facilitators posing as legitimate politicians, and might we say … the phony champions of the people.
Shhhh, listen, it is coming.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
A great story.
However, many are being red-pilled. We’ll have to see what comes of it. But I don’t have high hopes because most folks don’t seem to know the difference between a brown shirt and a red shirt. But certainly things are better than if Crime Syndicate had won the last Presidential.
At this point what does it matter? Northern VA is a big blue sea and even the non conservative Comstock isn’t going to win there. Gillespie was a nice RINO and he got destroyed by Nova… Adios Comstock. Maybe you should have wanted a border like the rest of the stupid RINO Act of Love GOP Incorporated..
Who are you trying to convince?
Babb’s in trouble, isn’t she? If we need an article like this? Shak Hill???
OMG! Spare me.
2017 ACU House Average Republican = 82%
2017 ACU Comstock Rating = 56%
Not even a moderate Republican. Sigh!
What’s the rating of the NOVA democrats?
I think everyone on this site knows I was for Trump the day he announced his candidacy, worked as 10th District Chair, and am continually loyal to the president and his agenda. But I have been very critical of the president for his budget vote and failure to really offer a viable infrastructure bill. So, with that, I can back Barbara Comstock despite the fact she has bucked the president, too. Steve Hollingshead was not such much of a Trump backer. He made some critical comments on Trump as late as October 2016, but he has helped the administration in the transition. So, we both stand with Rep. comstock. Gosh, Trump is backing Romney in the Utah primary for Senate! We have to think strategic here. We don’t think strategic in Virginia GOP circles. We lose Barbara, we lose the 10th and we have no Republican House member in the DC area. It’s that simple. She’s electable, Shak is not.
Well, we basically don’t have a Republican House member in the 10th now anyway, do we?
In what universe does an 80% Conservative achieve an “F” on every Conservative Scorecard from every conservative group that has one? Barbara is more closely aligned with Nancy Pelosi than she is with Dave Brat or Tom Garrett. Will Comstock promise to join the Conservative Caucus if re-elected? I doubt it.
In the 10th Congressional District Universe.
You may have a Republican that votes correctly some of the time, or you may have a Democrat that votes correctly none of the time.
If we want to elect a successor to Barbara, we have to come up with one that is electable.
We have heard this “electable” as a reason to hold our nose and vote for a RINO. We heard it with McCain and Romney. We also heard it more recently as to why we should not nominate Trump, obviously Jeb and Marco was much more electable.. This sage advice ranks right up there with vote for him/her because they are a nice person. Maybe we could widen our selection criteria by asking our candidate to have a pulse. BTW: there are Democrats that have a more conservative record than Barbara. At least they vote the way they campaign.
With a party so weak and decrepit, we have to play the cards dealt. We’re going to have to hold our noses for whoever the nominee is.
It is our job to put forth the best possible choice to the electorate. A contestant like Shak mandates we choose the more conservative, the more Republican, Barbara.
“The more Conservative, the more Republican”; your kidding right? She voted against Repeal and Replace; She voted for Tran-sexual surgeries in the military with taxpayers picking up the tab; She sold her vote for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP); She has consistently voted against the Trump Agenda. Being a conservative is not a buffet where she gets to choose several conservative dishes like the tax cut and wrap herself in the Gladsen flag.
I wish I was kidding. I’m in not jumping up and down happy with Barbara as our representative. Just because I understand her political triangulation does not make me pleased with her performance.
Not only has she publicly voted against our President, she has joined in our party pandering against him.
However, she and her Campaign has supported the nominee AND his agenda where possible and prudent.
Because our party sucks so much we have allowed her and other Congresscritters too much political power and autonomy within the party. Some of this is systemic, some is custom — both are entirely the fault and responsibility of the party. It was our 10th District committee that chose the primary that facilitates candidates for nomination who are less than desireable.
There were at least two promising and viable challenges that were ‘Shak-blocked’ by his eternal candidacy and intransigence.
Shak has gone against the will of the electorate and choice of the party in his convention antics and his #NEVER behavior to this day.
It is our job as a party to select the most electable conservative Republican to offer the electorate in November — not to punish the woman who originally overwhelmingly won a fair and balanced nomination and twice has won general election.
It is this scorched earth quest for a Pyrrhic victory that demonstrates the danger of our unraveling fringe groups.
Barbara is our most conservative for ‘when it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change’ and our most Republican because the actions, words, and deeds of Team Shak shows that he is not.
“I’m not jumping up and down happy with Barbara as our representative.” Bull crap. You are her chief cheerleader. You are a RINO and a REMF. And I am sure you will have to look up the later, you clown.
Clearly you have not been paying attention — it is the absolute suckiness of Shak that makes Barbara acceptable.
Hell, Shak makes her look more Republican, more Conservative, more Trumpy, and more politically astute simply by challenging her.
There are those who believe to this day that Barbara must be paying Shak something to be such a dream opponent.
She is being philosophically inoculated and getting a free pass because the alternative to her is such a bozo. (see shadyshak.com)
Furthermore, because Shak has been such an asshat, the general electorate will perceive Barbara as incredibly reasonable to the cartoon Shak.
Oh, and ‘Sarge,’ your acronyms are inaccurate and just would embarrass actual service members, whatever the eschelon.
She has betrayed conservatives, but so far, she has not betrayed Republican leadership. She supported Ryan as Speaker, and she has not joined Democrats in their attempts to remove Trump. If she did either of those, I’d be in favor of dumping her and taking a chance on Shak, even though he would probably lose anyway. Right now, she gives us the best chance for holding the House, which is far more important than tran-sexual surgeries or other such votes.
Shak has betrayed Conservatives, Republicans, and the Virginian general electorate yet I will be strongly supporting him if the 10th Republican primary electorate on June 12th says: ‘Go with the assclown!’
Appreciate the post.
Certainly think there are enough
Red flags in what passes for Shak Hill resume
to question his judgement ,and experience.
Hill strikes me as someone who approaches
You at a political breakfast or event , and within
Fifteeen minutes you are looking for an exit…any exit.
As Johnny Carson once said about a guest who did not
Pick up the beat, “ You’re a legend in your own mind “
I think an appointment to maybe a Tree Commission
In a very very small town , from an unwitting tiny town council
Might be the ticket for Shak.
He doesn’t approach you, his modus operandi is to stake out a position in the food (receiving?) line and ‘greet’ everyone queueing up. (Fundraisers, book-signings, parking-lot egress’)
He actually did get elected to a town/city council in Florida… served around 6 months and stepped down. (Why was that?)
That’s the kind of experience we should send to Washington?
I worked for the Shak Hill campaign in the 2014 primary. I will never support him again. This is not to say that he is a bad guy or that his family is not nice. He and his wife have made a nice family, but in the political sense Shak is too ego-centric to realize that a conservative has a better chance becoming mayor of San Francisco then he has of winning ANY congressional race in Virginia. Shak has no ability at all – NONE WHATSOEVER – to appeal to the middle of the spectrum.
Shak is the one of those conservatives who sees someone as Barbara Comstock as a 20% traitor rather than an 80% friend and ally. And those purists in our party are destroying it. They tend to be petty and self-absorbed.
Interesting. Thanks for posting — you need to write more TBE blog articles, Mark!
Great point Mark! Apparently the comment where I laid out all the facts about Shak mysteriously disappeared I guess because it was too substantive for those who run this blog that are in Shak’s corner!
Stay tune!
Please repost. It just might be a Disqus spaz. I like to think of myself as the canary in the coal mine for censorship, yet I seem intact.
Hey Steven, I’m not sure you are one to discuss principles and moral high ground when you post stuff like this on your facebook page. You should quit lying about Comstock and actually post something productive about your own candidate, instead of getting your tighty-whiteys in a stained wad over the fact that a majority of Republicans, and a majority of the Commonwealth, supports our Congresswoman.
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More personal attacks. That is why you got blocked.
You’ve lost all credibility with your lies and your virtue signaling, Steven. I’m glad I can post it here where everyone gets to see it, and where you can’t block anything.
How is that a personal attack? You promoted a post that you thought was ‘edgy.’
It wasn’t, and also wasn’t in good taste.
Matthew 7:16
Dude, get a life. It’s an Onion article on my personal page.
And btw, I seem to remember “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”.
Personal page? Then what’s on your political page? Is this your personal Disqus?
Apparently trying to get straight answers is a delicate procedure and I really go out of my way not to offend others.
Shak has been lobbing rocks since he decided to run against Babs rather than for Congress.
Just as I expect Barbara to actively support a Hill nomination in November, I will expect you and the rest of Team Shak to wholeheartedly support Barbara’s candidacy with the full face value of the Shakelectorate. There is no longer an option to take a pass.
I wouldn’t count on either of those happening.
To dream, the impossible dream…
Barbara could be backed into this — it would be the most fun, as she’s the most pro-Trump between the two.
But Shak holds the record for not supporting the nominee. The crayons and construction paper are being readied for the write-in.
Back to the polls…..what polls have you seen that back up your views?? You say many. Name three. But you won’t ’cause you can’t, ’cause you make things up. Try the Wexton camp once you’re out on the 13th. You’re helping them now anyway so you might as well make a few bucks, right? I mean, that’s what it’s all about, no? It’s not about #SadShak winning, everyone knows that’s an impossible task. It’s about a little ching in your pocket to pay some bills. Right?
No joke posts on Facebook? I thought that was funny!
It was hilarious! It was exactly the type of thing you’d find on Shak’s old porn website.
Jelquing is not porn, it is a centuries-old prostate massage technique that many of Shak’s readers had asked him about. The porn references tweets that someone with access to Shak’s social media had promoted in some way. It musta been hackers, and why are we concerned with Shak’s social media access/security and respective passwords when people in the 10th are concerned with symbolic scorecard Obamacare votes?
Finally you get to the issues, not the personal. Jelquing? Great word of the day! Only on TBE!
It’s a Shak thing, you wouldn’t understand.
Well said! This is why so many people in NOVA and Loudoun in particular still have so much respect for Stephen Hollingshead.
Catherine I agree with you. The only comment I disagree with Stephen is his comment about Ken C. Ken did absolutely nothing to support Donald Trump after her won the nomination. I covered PWC where Ken lives and his supporters not only refused to accept that Trump won the nomination. The entire PWCGOP was embedded with Cuccinelli folks who worked against the nomination of Donald Trump. Ken could have rallied those folks who do whatever he tells them to do to support Trump but he selfishly did not.
Just like that Shak guy who worked so hard to overturn the will of the electorate leading up to #Harrisonburg and the RNC Convention antics. The man from shadyshak.com was clearly an active practicing #NEVER who gave the party and the electorate an extended middle-finger in action, word, and deed.
The candidacy of Shak makes Babs the MOST Republican and the MOST conservative.
So tell me why you support Obamacare? Because that’s what you are getting when you support Babs.
Steve, this is politics, this world is not binary.
I refer you here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman.
I do not support Obamacare, Barbara does not support Obamacare. We expect our representative to use her judgement and vote the best way possible for her district — it is the essence of Republicanism.
Would I prefer that she and the rest of Congress vote exactly the way I want — of course.
She casts a lot of votes, we’re watching her and she knows it.
We’re watching Shak, you, and the Team — you’re still striking out and you know it.
Could you write that again? “We expect our representative to use her judgement and vote the best way
possible for her district — it is the essence of Republicanism.” What a great line!
Or, put another way, crazy is as crazy does!
No need to wrinkle your pretty little forehead about it, it’s a Republican thing.
Thanks, Little Rocinante!
She doesn’t care that you’re watching her. Her opposition to Obamacare lasted only until she actually got her coveted seat.
Nonsense, she, like the rest of us, have to play the cards dealt.
She has to fix the abomination created — she doesn’t have the luxury of being the soundbite warrior.
We elect people to go make sausage, don’t be surprised when they actually do so.
The state party members had a right to select the delegates to the convention. Virginia’s convention happened before Pres. Trump sealed the nomination. So it was totally legit to select the delegates through the convention votes, as the rules state. Normally conservatives don’t favor primaries because they often include the votes of the uninformed, and even liberals nd Democrats in Virginia’s OPEN primary, So the will of the people is a canard.
Virginia voted Trump, then Rubio, then Cruz.
Team shadyshak gamed a convention majority and used it ruthlessly.
I, and others, remember how Shak told the Republican primary voters ‘Screw you, we got only 17% of the vote, but we’re taking the delegates.”
Betrayers of the electorate do not deserve position in the party.
Shak should be rejected as nominee for no reason other than his #NEVER behavior at convention games.
He is dead to me, but still always amuses.
So many lies and distortions in this piece. The fact that Barbara is attacking Shak’s family- particularly his wife, a two time cancer survivor, renders her unfit for office.
Anyone still supporting her after this, and after her vote against Repealing Obamacare, should be ashamed.
Where are your principles, Stephen?
Exactly when did the Congresswoman attack Hill’s wife. Please be EXACT. No more of your vague nonsense.
Attacking her last name, business, foster parenting, his moving for her sake…. nearly all her BS personal attacks have been attacks on Robin.
But there’s a bigger point here. Here she is, a rich and powerful two term Congresswoman who can’t run on her record, and instead is resorting to her campaign and her minions launching one personal attack after another against Shak and his family. A family that has done so much more for the district and the Commonwealth, indeed that nation, than worthless Babs will do in her whole lifetime.
Can’t run on her record, instead sliming his family. Anyone still supporting this slimeball should be ashamed of themselves. Stephen included.
Congresswoman Comstock never attacked your candidate’s wife–EVER. I knew you’d have nothing real so you make up nonsense. The truth is something you and Shak find difficult. Will you both be working for Wexton once you lose the primary? Hey, a paycheck is a paycheck, right?…..
Things that ARE relevant to CD10: Babs’ vote to keep Obamacare, her vote to have the military pay for transgender surgeries, her vote for the 2015 CROmnibus (busted spending caps), her vote for 2018 Omnibust (WAAAAAY busted spending caps), her votes for gun control, her support of amnesty.
Things that are NOT relevant: Her attacks on Shak’s family, his wife, his children.
I’d expect a slimeball like you to make excuses for Babs- two peas in a pod. Thankfully, this tactic is backfiring big time. Any incumbent that can’t run on her own record and instead is resorting to attacking her opponent’s family deserves to lose, and is doing so.
You are funny! You get caught making up lies and you come back with more lies. Just ask John Fredericks. You might be better off spending your time having a bake sale for your candidate’s campaign (and your own pockets) so he can replenish the piggy bank. Better yet, work with Shak’s leftist pals at Dump Comstock or Blue Virginia. Btw, how are your polls looking? Name ID strong??
Shak’s name ID is strong and every time Babs attacks him personally, and attacks his family personally, his name ID gets stronger, thanks!
Again, the big question is: Why do you think we shouldn’t repeal Obamacare? Why is a $1 trillion deficit a good idea? Why do you think we should have gun control? Why are you in favor of our military paying for transgender surgeries?
These are the things that matter. She will definitely lose, every poll says as much. He is our only shot to keep the seat.
The irony of Stephen’s hit piece here is that if Shak does win the primary, you and Cathy “Inspire” McNickle won’t support him because you love the spending, gun control, Obamacare and all the crazy liberal things Babs stands for. And that is sad, but there are still enough people who are with Shak on the issues to win the general without the liberal hacks.
Steven, you blocked us all on Facebook. Only liberal hacks do that.
No, I blocked you because I don’t need your personal attacks on my page. The fact is that all you people do is the personal attacks- you can’t defend her record so you engage in personal attacks. That is not conservative or liberal- that’s just being a jerk.
You’re lying. You’re continuing to lie here. The campaign is paying you to lie the way he has lied throughout his campaign. The hackery involved in his entire effort is such a sad, sad shame. It’s not a personal attack. It’s responding to your continued lies. This piece is 100% truth, and you can’t help but respond with lies. You blocked me because you can’t handle truth, and you have a candidate who can’t run on anything but personal attacks against Barbara Comstock. I waited for your candidate to actually have a message – he never did. I was eager to see real conservatism – it never came. I will use my 5000-strong facebook following to support REAL candidates like Barbara Comstock, not fake ones like yours who hire hacks like you. Enjoy your echo chamber.
Perhaps you could share more truths about Barbara, and more of her message. That would be welcome.
Perhaps a healthy exchange of ideas and dialog between the two candidates. Perhaps in a series of thoughtful debates or letters or internet point/counterpoint.
I would have been happy with locking them together in the RPV Obenshain Thunderdome, but our wonderful 10th district GOP Committee instead decided to go for the Taxpayer Value Primary.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRAiUPdRjk#
What polls are you reading??
“Shak’s name ID is strong…” Really? Tell me, Steven, how much money did Shak Hill raise, other than HIS OWN, in his STATEWIDE 2014 Campaign? I know the answer to that question, and the figure was certainly not indicative of someone with strong name ID. Shak was popular ONLY with movement conservatives, as I was at the time. I also co-led the Tea Party leader in Stafford County for six years, and that was the only sliver of the electorate that found Shak appealing.
Steven,
I know you have a record that would indicate you don’t exactly have much success when it comes to women. This is all indicative of your disrespectful behavior towards women when you make up childish names like “Babs!” Aren’t you a grown man or have you been neutered and can’t help yourself?
Actually Steven, you might want to switch careers and work as a use car salesman since lying comes easy to you!
Has the Democrat posing as a Republican under the moniker,”Former GOP”still posting disparaging comments about Barbara on Shak’s Facebook?
Hey, hey HEY! I was an early adopter of ‘Babs’ here on TBE and Barbara is affectionately referred to as Babs around the district as in ‘we need more of Babs’ lit’ and ‘we have locations for at least 5 Babs 4×8’s.’
In person and formally we have manners and we address her as ‘Madame Congresswoman,’ ‘Representative Comstock’ and ‘the Congresswoman.’
Similarly, we refer to Shak as shorthand for Wayshak (Mothers maiden name?) which apparently has been used as his first, his middle, AND his surname.
So in the unlikely event that the nonRepublicans prevail in the primary, he might become known as failed 10th Congressional candidate Shak Shak Shak.
Which of her last names? Her maiden name? Her married name, or her changed name. Please clarify this sequence as I don’t think this was never explained.
Also, what was Shak’s birth name? It seems difficult to track his provenance.
Her business? The insurance biz, or the publishing biz, or the eternal candidacy biz of ‘Friends of Shak Hill?’ How much came in and went out for that? And why?
He moved for her sake? Was that when he quit elected office?
Surely you can see that the gaps in ‘The Shak Story’ are potentially bad news if he ends up the nominee. Do you think the democrats will look the other way?
Seems like the only one shoveling slime is you and Team Shak. It’s time to come clean.
Obviously obsessed. Creepy, eh?
Really? That’s awful. Families are off limits, or they used to be.
They sure should be but not in Shak’s eyes nor the eyes of his main henchman. ?
I generally agree families of off-limits. I do think Linwood Kaine qualifies as an exception with his antics up in Minnesota and especially when Senator Kaine encouraged “the resistance” to take to the streets.
Steve,
I don’t know what pipe you are smoking or what universe you are operating on but you sound so desperate attacking Barbara by saying she is attacking Shak’s family which is a outright lie! As I stated before I don’t have a dog in this fight and I was going to simply not involved myself with the 10th District race because I am trying to do what I can to help Jeff Dove. Your actions and the campaigns despicable characterizations of Barbara Comstock comparing her to Saddam Hussein for example, the constant lies coming out of your campaign, are now leading me to take action to set the record straight. I can no longer sit back and watch Barbara, her family, and the voters of the 10th Congressional District be lied about and lied to by your campaign.
It was your campaign that started the personal attacks on Barbara and her elderly father. I sent an email to your campaign having experience as a campaign manager myself, and simply for common decency, that attacking family members of a opponent is never a winning campaign strategy. The response I received back from one of your surrogates was,”It doesn’t matter if they are 18 or 82 they are all fair game!” in reference to attacking family members.
Even after your campaign denied that you were attacking Barbara’s father, the next day a email blast written under Robin’s name but probably written by you continued the personal attack on Barbara’s father by calling him a disparaging name.
Steve you are simply a disgrace for saying anyone including Barbara is attacking Shak’s wife. Pointing out the fact that it is unusual for a veteran,husband, to all of a sudden change his name completely to his wife’s maiden name is legitimate and raises questions about who Shak really is. To point out that both Shak and his wife were part of a charity that included a registered sex offender is a legitimate concern. To point out why Shak left elected office after just six months of a 4 year term is a legitimate concern. To point out why Shak has a job employment record after leaving the military that indicates he can’t stay in any job for more than two years demonstrates he has a unstable employment record. All red flags for any candidate seeking elected office.
Shak is also in debt up to his eyeballs according to his own recent financial disclosure form on the FEC website. He still owes a large sum of money from his previous run for elected office.For someone with a background as a financial advisor would you want Shak taking care of your families finances let alone as a Member of Congress if he can’t keep his own finances in order?
My husband and I have a combined law enforcement background of over 50 years. Just simply looking at your unstable employment record,constant moving around after leaving the military,multiple variations of your name in a simple google search,setting up a charity with a registered sex offender, indicates to the both of us that you are trying to stay out in front of something and/or are concealing something you don’t want to get out. This was further verified when at a recent Republican Women’s Club of Clifton which I attended with other members of the Deplorables who belong to this club you refused to take my questions. You set a standard for asking questions after you saw I was the one asking the question that you would only take questions from those living in the 10th Congressional District. You have Never set that standard at any other public or private event you were speaking at before. As a matter of fact at a meet and greet I attended with a conservative group over a month ago I have been affiliated with for over 10 years you told the group to ask you anything they wanted. I raised my hand and you took my question. As more and more information gets out about you the strategy of you and your campaign is not take questions from individuals who may share information publicly that may raise questions about you and the information you don’t want revealed. If you have nothing to hide why were you afraid to take my question?You only want the voters to hear what you want them to hear even if it is an outright lie.
Having served and protected two US Presidents and their families as a member of the US Secret Service, my commission book stated “I was worthy of the trust and confidence of the President of the United States!”Based on your actions and the actions of your campaign,it is my opinion you are not worthy of the trust or confidence of the voters of Virginia’s 10th Congressional District.
MAGA
Donna Widawski
Barbara is attacking Shak’s Wife?
Which lies and distortions? Care to ‘name’ them?
No matter how much you so desperately want to make this race a fantasy referendum on Barbara, you can never fix the political problem that is Shak.
I’m more ashamed that the inspiration for shadyshak.com is running as a Republican… for now.
What you SHOULD be ashamed of, is that all the trolls and those attacking Shak and his family personally are either: 1. Out of the district; 2. Obsessive wack jobs; or 3. Both.
The writer of this very article ran for Congress in Wisconsin, lost, then moved to the 10th, lost two more races in 3 years, then moved to Houston, where he lives now.
And this is the person Babs recruited to smear Shak for supposedly running for too many offices and moving? Really?
Tsk tsk.
Sigh. Let me try this another way:
a) How did Barbara attack Shak’s Wife and/or namesake? (Jab about unanswered name issue)
b) Which lies and distortions? Please clarify charges in shadyshak.com – which are lies, which are distortions? (Jab about claims without evidence)
c) ~(not) Babs is unequal to Shak — Change my mind.
d) I am in the district, an obsessive whack job, attacking Shak personally, professionally, and politically. Deal with it. (Or facilitate me constantly harping on the flaws that show Shak as an unacceptable nominee.)
e) Shak ran for town office in Florida, won, quit after 6 months, ran for Senate, lost at convention, didn’t support the nominee, used ‘Shak of the month’ committee to promote his eternal candidacy. (Your turn.)
f) the author explains his opinion why Shak is not a viable candidate in November, I’m still waiting for the response and opposing viewpoint.
g) tsk tsk’s, really’s, straw men, do not work.
If Shak wants the nomination, he has to persuade with valid reasons, not with attacks and insults.
The valid reasons are the last four years of Beltway Barbara’s abominable voting record.
Look, if you want to win with a liberal, let’s just nominate Wexton to run on both tickets. She will vote virtually indistinguishable from Comstock and then you can be happy for having “won”. Of course, the country would lose, just as it is losing with Comstock being in there. We would be better off replacing her with a Democrat so we can run someone else in two years- that’s how bad she is.
Obamacare? Transgender surgeries in the military? Uncontrolled spending? Gun control? You can keep it. Vote for Wexton, she will give you all that.
We need an actual Republican, not one who whines about her district as she votes like Nancy Pelosi. Her scorecards are atrocious.
And no, the leg humpers like you, Mr. Anomymous Internet Troll, don’t serve the cause here because you provide no accountability for her. Someone that bad should be fired, for cause. End of story. And there are tons of folks in the district who agree with us, so we’ll just have to see what the voters say on June 12.
I look forward to your silence on June 13.
I like that description: Leg humper, Mr. Anonymous Internet Troll.
I think he knows you, Roc!
Valid objections to Barbara votes in no universe equates to Shak. Barbara has a record of votes, Shak has a record of… well… I’m just not sure. (That’s what you get with an absence of accountability.)
Your advocacy for a democrat instead of Barbara as our nominee is simply unacceptable.
Shak has a history of ignoring the electorate, will this continue on the 13th of June?
So does this mean that you will not be wholeheartedly supporting the nominee after the primary if it is not Shak?
If I’m not mistaken, your campaign is more about removing Barbara from office than it is electing a Republican.
This is insane.
While Babs was interning for Ted Kennedy and learning how to be a good liberal, Shak was dodging bullets over Kuwait, risking his life for liberty.
There is nothing worse than Republican chicken-hawks who pretend to honor the military, except when someone who has put his life on the line for his country, runs against a corrupt, lying Republican politician. Then it’s totally ok to attack the guy’s family and him personally.
We are talking about a guy and a family that has tirelessly worked for their community. Been a foster parent to 46 children. 2013 Virginia Volunteer Family of the Year. Beat a bad Republican to win his city council seat in FL, and has the endorsement of the Mayor there because he did so much good. He would gladly have stayed but that the state told the Hills they were under physical threat from the natural father of their four adopted children.
But then, Shak has always put family, country, and community before self. THAT is who he is. THAT is his record. Putting the community above himself is what people can expect from him, and that is a welcome change from Beltway “Look at me” Barbara.
Dodging bullets over Kuwait? Like Hillary and Chelsea dodging sniper fire? ‘Serpentine Hill, serpentine!’
It is my understanding that Shak flew refueling planes and I do appreciate Mr. Magnum’s service and contribution to our military.
If dodging bullets means those sent by troglodytes firing into the sky, your deception is showing.
The reason Shak quit elected office was that his adopted children were physically threatened by their natural father?
This is the first I’ve heard of this. I did not read about this in any of the papers. Is there any evidence for this ‘crossing of the Alps’ where the miscreant could not pursue them?
Stevie, let’s get back to numbers. You mentioned all the polls that have the Congresswoman losing. I asked you yesterday to present all of them (actually, I only asked you to show us all a mere three). As a brilliant mind from Georgetown I thought you could easily share those numbers with all of us. I’m still waiting. Now I’m sure #SadShak has been unable to afford a poll (that would take some money from your pocket) so again I ask, what polls?
More obvious obsession.
Absolutely. And I used to be a supporter of hers and have high regard for her. I was acquainted with Barbara before she ever held office as a delegate, I even donated to her once upon a time and knocked doors. But the kind of slander I heard on her radio ad today absolutely disgusts me. Power corrupts, I suppose. She is not the person she seemed to me before she was elected to Congress. The thing is, it was a foolish move to go this far and alienate people who think well of Shak – she will lose many votes on Election Day because of this unnecessary destruction of the reputation of a man who served his country well.