Virginia House of Delegates, Special, 2021

Posted January 2, 2021, 4:10 p.m.

A special election will be held on January 5 to fill vacancies in the 2nd and 90th districts of the Virginia House of Delegates. I make the following recommendations in those races:

2nd District: Former Delegate Carol Foy (D-VA 2nd) resigned in December to focus on her gubernatorial campaign. Candi King (D) and Heather Mitchell (R) stand as candidates to replace her. I recommend voting for Heather Mitchell.
90th District: Former Delegate Joseph Lindsey (D-VA 90th) resigned in November after being appointed as a state judge. Sylvia Bryant (R) and Norfolk City Councilwoman Angelia Graves (Superward 7), who is running as a Democrat, stand as candidates to replace him. I recommend voting for Sylvia Bryant.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Harry S. Truman

Liberty therefore can only subsist, where the powers of government are properly divided, and where the different jurisdictions are inviolably kept distinct and separate.

Anonymous

God grants to evil and to evildoers a large measure of freedom—too large, we might think. Even so, history does not slip through his fingers.

Benedict XVI

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Robert Anton Wilson

For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.

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Scott Hahn

Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.

John Locke

Such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by outward force. Confiscation of estate, imprisonment, torments, nothing of that nature can have any such efficacy as to make men change the inward judgment that they have framed of things.

John Locke

There are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

Maximilian Kolbe

The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We have got to find a substitute for war, and the substitute isn’t surrender.

Norman Thomas

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Teddy Roosevelt

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Patrick Henry

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Steve Jobs

Not the perversities of others, not their sins of commission or omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a sage take notice of.

Siddhartha Gautama

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

Barry Goldwater

Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.

Jordan Peterson

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