Political Endorsement and Election Plans

Posted September 27, 2015, 11:56 a.m.

Since 2004, I have made political endorsements each year here on Off on a Tangent . . . and this year will be no different. Following my standard policy, I will be making endorsements for every race and ballot issue that will be in contention my home precinct.

This year happens to have a fairly heavy ballot. Citizens of Loudoun County, Virginia, will be electing our representatives in the Virginia General Assembly (both Senate and House of Delegates), the entire Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (chairman and district members), the entire Loudoun County School Board (at-large and district members), the county treasurer, county sheriff, county commonwealth’s attorney, clerk of the county circuit court, county commissioner of revenue, and Loudoun Soil and Water Conservation District Directors. On top of all of that, we have two Loudoun County bond referendums.

All-in-all, I will be reviewing thirty candidates for fourteen offices. I will be dividing my endorsements into four sets, and will begin posting them daily on Tuesday, September 29. First will be the two ballot issues and some largely-unimportant offices, followed by the five Loudoun County constitutional offices, then the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors races, and finally, on Friday, October 2, the two Virginia General Assembly races.

Stay tuned!

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.

Genesis and science are both correct. When one asks if six days or fifteen billion years passed before the appearance of humankind, the correct answer is ‘yes.’

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

We are all agreed, whether we be Americans of the first or of the seventh generation on this soil, that is not desirable to receive more immigrants than can reasonably be assured of bettering their condition by coming here.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

Believers can have a lot to do with the rise of atheism. If we are careless about our instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or fail in our religious, moral, or social life, we often conceal and distort the faith rather than reveal [its] true nature. . . .

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. On the lips of him who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Don’t be yourself, be someone a little nicer.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Nothing is done, unless the Almighty wills it to be done, either by permitting it, or by actually doing it.

In a free market, the money of ordinary people is just as good as the money of the rich—and in the aggregate, there is often more of it.

The preservation of civilization and culture is now one with the preservation of religion. If the anti-God forces of the world conquer, culture and civilization will disappear, and we will have to start all over again.

You might think a topic is too complicated to master for your use, but you might learn otherwise in less than a minute if you bother to check.

I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.

The only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one. . . .