I am in the race! And with the support of many many Democrats. Please read this. I have written it for you and other Democrats and progressives and independents and independent Republicans in the District. Thanks! Brad Blanton:If you had a representative in our ?representative? government really giving voice to your convictions, what would you want them to say?
Would you want someone with the courage of their convictions to speak the truth?absent political expediency? Would you want someone to be a champion for peace?
These are questions that I?ve dealt with deeply as a psychotherapist in Washington, D.C. for over 25 years, and are behind my decision to devote the remainder of my life to public service. I intend to use my professional expertise as an author, seminar leader and social scientist, and my devoted enthusiasm for honesty, to win a seat in Congress in District Seven in Virginia. I want to represent the voices of many people with a variety of perspectives, but whose values are at variance with those in the White House today.
I am selling my home and dedicating the next year of my life?and over $100,000 from my own (modest) pocket?to this work. I need your help to bring into being a new majority in my district and in the country. I want to invent, with your help, some new kind of affiliation out of mutual self interest that reaches across the ways of thinking we are used to, and then have that new majority reflected in Congress.
Wow - that's what we call "going all in." If you'd like to learn more about the Blanton, check out his website. There isn't too much there - so I assume we should check back periodically to check for updates. Blanton ran against Cantor in 2004 as an Independent, getting 24% of the vote.