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The Fairfax County Republican Committee is coming up on an important election for a new Chairperson. It’s a two-year commitment that’s not for the faint of heart. It’s a tough job that will require vision and execution to dig Fairfax Republicans out of the hole they’re in.
There are three candidates that are running: Brian Murphy, Katie Gorka and Tony Sabio. Gorka and Sabio have pulled ahead and are the two leading candidates. For the sake of this article, we’ll be focusing on those two candidates.
Gorka and Sabio are conservative, unapologetic Trump supporters. But the one who will be a successful Chairperson won’t be the one who out Trumps the other in this election. It’ll be the person who can fundamentally change the direction of the Republican Party in Fairfax County. Someone who can change the perception and reputation of Republicans to help them win elections.
I believe the candidate that can do that is Tony Sabio. That’s why I signed up to be a delegate and will support Tony at the convention on April 6th.
Sabio has decades of experience in national security and has experience running for local office. He was in the Secret Service, CIA and he was a US Navy Hospital Corpsman. His platform seems to be from someone that understands the structural changes that need to be made at the FCRC and the work that’s required to do it. At an event that I attended recently, he talked about not letting the GOP use Fairfax County as its “piggy bank”. He understands the gravity of the situation that the GOP has left Northern Virginia in. He has a detailed plan for how get Fairfax County back on the map.
At that same event, Sabio used the word “community” a lot and it’s not by accident. He seems to understand that getting the Republicans in Fairfax County back on track will require a lot of leg work in the community.
Katie Gorka has the background of someone that is worthy to run for Chairperson. She’s had a stop at the Heritage Foundation and is currently on the board of the McLean Community Center. She co-founded Catholics Engaged for Fairfax, which works to mobilize Catholics to be informed about issues and vote their values. She too comes from a national security background.
The issue that I have with Gorka is that she doesn’t seem to be different than the leadership that got Fairfax Republicans into the mess that they’re in. According to some of her public statements, she doesn’t believe that Fairfax County should rely on the RNC or Virginia GOP for anything. That’s a red flag. While Sabio understands that the FCRC needs to do the work to stand on its own two feet, he’s not going to let the state or national party headquarters walk all over Fairfax and milk it for its resources while giving it a bag of chips in return. Gorka seems to have no problem letting the RNC continue milking Fairfax County while telling it to go jump in the lake at the same time. She speaks in generalities when talking about reaching out in the community and breaking down the Democrats’ stranglehold on the county.
I can’t in good faith vote for someone that is a continuation of years of lackadaisical leadership and a lack of focus on breaking conservatives out of our ghetto to reach more people.
Fairfax county is the 4th richest county in America. Here’s a breakdown to keep in mind – the county has 51% whites and 49% minorities; of the 10 members on board of supervisors there is only one Republican; every House Delegate and every State Senator in Fairfax County is a Democrat; and both Congressional Representatives that overlap with Fairfax County (mostly 11th district) are Democrats.
No longer can we rely on going to our corners and only talk amongst ourselves as conservatives. We have to go out in the community, and Tony’s plan will get us there. Yes, both candidates are talking about reaching out to the 49% minorities in Fairfax County and to Gen Z. When haven’t you heard a Republican go out to try and get the youth and minority vote and only come up short handed? But Tony can actually do it, especially with some of the demographic shifts with minorities leaving the Democratic Party recently. He’s done it already in his campaign.
I’m going to say a word that gives Republicans heartburn, but I’ll say it anyways – universal. Republicans have a universal message because we want the government to get off our backs and let us take control of our lives. Get out of my bank account. Get out of my life, Uncle Sam. Let me be. We advocate for parents to have the authority over what their child is taught in school. It’s not the government’s job. We believe government is not the solution but the obstacle itself that gets in the way. Tony will help amplify and resonate this message and change how Republicans are viewed in Fairfax County.
Katie Gorka won’t be able to do that. She will be more of the same of we’ve gotten from FCRC leadership the past 15 years that lead us to permanent Democrat party rule.
We can stop this. We can return to normalcy. We can return to a Fairfax County where there’s not a new tax every minute and they’re not wasting time on a casino proposal (oh goody, more traffic). We can reach every corner of Fairfax County and convince every demographic that our message is a message of building a strong community together that will help Republicans start winning elections again.
It starts with electing Tony Sabio as FCRC Chairman so he can get the right leaders elected to dismantle what the Democrats have done in Fairfax County for over a decade.
2 comments
1. Abortion is not “health care.” It’s a sad choice at best. And, it’s infanticide the way Democrats like Tran advocate for it and Northam conducts it. All DEMs in Richmond voted for no limits up to the day of birth. “Not health care.”
2. Democrats are racist. The policies they pursue are not equality before the law. Never have been.
” No longer can we rely on going to our corners and only talk amongst ourselves as conservatives. We have to go out in the community, and Tony’s plan will get us there. Yes, both candidates are talking about reaching out to the 49% minorities in Fairfax County and to Gen Z. When haven’t you heard a Republican go out to try and get the youth and minority vote and only come up short handed? ”
This is a joke, right?
Let’s talk about young people, no, not new 18-yr-old voters. Do you not realize that every woman in the country under 53 years old has grown up and matured with the option of choosing her own healthcare? Guess who took that away from her. (HINT: It was not Democrats.)
Let’s talk about young people again, no, not new 18-yr-old voters. Do you not realize that every woman in the country under 85 years old has grown up and matured being able to practice contraception with no interference? Guess who is planning to take that away — the same people who overturned Roe v. Wade are now arguing that contraception is just abortion by another name (as usual, they lie); women under age 85 are already on to them and women under 50 are pissed (at YOU, fools).
Let’s talk about minorities. When the Roberts Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby v. FEC, one week later the Alabama legislature passed a law requiring new voter ID. And the ID was available only at DMV offices. So they closed 33 DMV offices, EVERY ONE of them in Black communities. Meanwhile, Republican legislatures nationwide took notes and now are making it more and more difficult for Black people to vote — gerrymandering, reducing voting hours, phony challenges, “purging” voting rolls. None of this is lost on Black voters.
Face it — you can put a young Black face out in front of the Republican Party but that’s just eyewash, it doesn’t do a thing to change who and what you really are.
And don’t start with the usual bullshit about how the Democratic Party WAS the party of the KKK and Jim Crow. That ended a loooong time ago. Maybe if you studied some real history and not that “Lost Cause” lie.