Virginia Star: Former Governor Bob McDonnell communications staffer Taylor Keeney is running for the GOP nomination in Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District. Keeney is the second GOP candidate to announce a campaign for the seat in July; Tina Ramirez announced her candidacy earlier in July.
“I’m tired of the same career politicians failing to flip the seat from blue back to red. That’s why I’m running for Congress,” Keeney said in an announcement video Wednesday.
Both candidates have founded non-profits.
In 2019, Keeney launched non-profit Little Hands Virginia (LHV) to use donations and fundraising to source necessary baby items for babies up to three years old and their mothers in Richmond and surrounding regions. In April, Keeney told WTVR that after the pandemic, LHV helped 91 children in March.
Ramirez is the founder of Hardwired Global, a Richmond-based NGO focused on training international indigenous leaders to fight for freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief. Ramirez has also served as a foreign policy advisor for congressmen and worked for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Ramirez also ran for the nomination in 2020 but lost to Delegate Nick Freitas (R-Culpeper).
According to Ballotpedia, two other candidates, Gautam Barve and John Castorani have filed paperwork to run for the nomination. In 2022, the GOP nominee will challenge incumbent Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-Virginia-07.) MORE HERE
Too many competing candidates is how incumbents win. The multiple opponents fragments the vote. They rarely agree to support one strong candidate against the incumbent.
I do believe Spanberger lost her election on the night of the 2020 election but miraculously they found a thumb drive a day or two later with a ton of D votes on it that changed the results. Once a CIA operative, always a CIA operative. But what is most upsetting the Virginia R’s did nothing to challenge the validity of the “lost” thumb drive.
stop2think, that thumb drive was “found” at 11pm election night and Nick Freitas acquiesced pretty quickly.
It’s going to be a bloodbath for the DemoncRATS in 2022. They are going to feel the pain when they are bent over in unbelief, that in the end they are going to lose big time. I’m holding out for the AZ results to be over turned and handed to Trump.
The grill’s ready. Spamburgers anyone?
Hopefully, she can get her one of those vote generating thumb drives that magically appear at 3am after the election, cause she’s going to need it.