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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Washington Post is wrong, but then why expect them to know anything about what they report on. A voter can vote at 17 in a primary as long as they will be 18 by the date of the general election.
Hey, Offender, you do not know how I voted. You are assuming, and that is an an asinine thing to do. I chided you for claiming the holyer-than-thou $hit about how you DID NOT vote...
And if you feel so strongly, perhaps you should fire the ‘first shot heard round the world’ in RWII. It will come to that, you know, why not now?
/johnny
Sorry, guy. I’ve been quite familiar with Willard going back to 1994 to his Senate campaign. He was raised a left-winger by his folks and is a notorious liar across the board with a liberal dose of megalomania to boot.
That you’ve been here for 16 years on Free Republic and not well aware of those facts (given that we spent YEARS exposing the Myth of Willard on an almost daily basis) is very strange indeed.
You buy what a notorious liar and opportunist says ? Just because they claim to be a Republican ?
The single most important test is amnesty and protecting our borders.
Sounds like he spent most of the campaign on his a$$.
Mitt Romney did nothing but lie during the whole campaign pretending to be some sort of conservative.
I would think so too, but you can never tell
This may have been why Mitty chose NOT to attack Odumbo on certain issues during the debates—he would be attacking one of his own!
But Obama, our current POTUS is so much better? Blech.
I never said Obama was better, voting for him was never within the realm of possibility to begin with. It is too bad there was no good alternative.
Willard was the ringer. His job, like McCain’s, was to stop a viable Conservative opponent from being the GOP nominee. You ever seen an opponent in the history of all Presidential campaigns make the claim that you have NOTHING to fear from the other guy becoming President ? I mean, look what LBJ did to Goldwater with the “Daisy” Ad.
LOL - you’re probably right!
It's not my party...yet.
after being told that conservatives wouldn't vote for him.
Which exactly means you and your ilk brought this horror down on all of us.
BRILLIANT!
She looks like Blossom.
If you’re not trying to replace Pat Roberts, why did you think that I was talking about you when I refered to misguided FReepers who support a nobody with no record just because he’s some liberal’s distant cousin over a proven conservative?
And why are you accusing me of supporting Romney? I opposed him in the primaries both in 2008 and 2012, and nothing in my post even implied that I support that RINO.
If and only if she stands like her father does, she has my vote. The antithesis of Davis and Co. Now let’s see if she can keep her soul in politics.
Yes.
And the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack always has and always will KICK ASS!!!
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