..............Amazing young lady
Posted on 05/14/2014 4:56:58 PM PDT by mandaladon
Saira Blair will graduate from a West Virginia high school later this month. She posts photos of her smoothie habit on Instagram, volunteers at the Martinsburg VA hospital and helps raise money for the Make-a-Wish foundation. She will not be eligible to vote until July.
But on Tuesday, she beat a sitting state delegate who was seeking a third term in office.
With all 13 precincts in her Martinsburg-area district reporting, Blair beat state Del. Larry Kump (R) by an 872-728 vote margin.
Blair campaigned on an antiabortion, pro-Second Amendment platform, offering her cellphone number to constituents and pledging not to go negative. She spent about $4,800 on her campaign, state finance records show (Kump, a former lobbyist, only spent $1,800 on his reelection bid).
“I think I’m fully capable of doing the job, and I don’t think it’s rocket science by any means — not if you just listen to the people,” Blair told the Martinsburg Herald-Mail this week.
She’s no stranger to politics, either: Blair’s father, Craig, is a West Virginia state senator. And despite being ineligible to vote for herself in the primary, she will be 18 in two months, meaning she’ll be old enough to vote in November, and to serve when the legislature reconvenes next year.
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..............Amazing young lady
She passes the most important of my tests for a candidate.
/johnny
How about the gay agenda and amnesty?
There may be a glimmer of hope after all.
To qualify, a candidate must ALSO show a history of being for smaller government, against amnesty, for traditional marriage, and against socialized medicine.
You can see why I couldn't vote for Romney. ;)
/johnny
bump
The only thing that sucks about her is the 18 year wait for her to run for president!
Doesn't mean that the pubbies will run that candidate, unfortunately.... they haven't in the past few elections.
/johnny
Just forwarded this to my own 17yo daughter, who could run on a similar platform
Karl hates her.
Looks like we have a successor for Alex Mooney in Congress in 2022. ;-)
........hell zero ran even though he is Kenyan, a Marxist, a socialist and the all time liar that ever walked the earth..............
I say run her at 19................clearly she is more focused than 90% of the rest of the morons!
Bet she would know exactly what to tell Putin, Assad and the Chinese (about their debt (to us, not to them).
Then she has my full support. Karl can go take a flying leap...
Jeez, what a story to tell...another rising star for Conservatives...
“In the United States, a person must be at least 35 to be President or Vice President, 30 to be a Senator, or 25 to be a Representative, as specified in the U.S. Constitution”
I think the “pro-marriage” means one man and one woman, judging from her other platforms. But I’ve been wrong before.
Does anyone know what Del. Larry Kump (R) campaigned on?
“You can see why I couldn’t vote for Romney.”
You have all heard it before of course, but not voting for Romney helped get Obama elected again. You can be proud of your stand on ‘principle’, but you all helped saddle the rest of the country with the hell we are experiencing now. As they said 2000 years ago...give us Barabas!
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