This weekend, I traveled to Richmond to hear the second congressional district candidates defend their positions before the Virginia Tea Party convention. I was surprised to learn that Congressman Glenn Nye had backed out at the last minute. This behavior was not totally unexpected: he has previously canceled breakfast meetings, scheduled town halls on military bases where civilians could not participate, and in general, deferred forming an opinion on controversial issues until the last minute so that he did not have to defend them.
However, I did get the answer to the question I wanted to ask him. In a posting on the Hampton Roads Tea Party Facebook page, announcing Congressman Nye’s withdrawal from the forum, he was asked if he would vote for Nancy Pelosi again as speaker of the house. “He said, he would ‘cast a vote for whoever the Democratic Caucus put forward.’ … and if Pelosi was put forward? Glen[n] Nye responded, ‘Yeah, I’d vote for her.’”
That is why I am voting for Scott Rigell. Not only is Mr. Rigell qualified, but a vote for Nye or Ken Golden – the unelectable independent in the race – is in effect nothing more than a vote for Nancy Pelosi. It is time for a return to smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and constitutional principles.
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