WATCH: Loudon County parent announces run for Congress on Tucker Carlson (Brandon Michon)

Brandon Michon, a parent in the Loudoun County School District that went viral for speaking out against remote learning, joined Tucker Carlson on Fox News Wednesday to announce that he is running for Congress in Virginia.

"I had the opportunity to be in the room with Governor Youngkin when he signed the executive orders allowing parents to choose what's best for their children. Parents want to have a voice and they just want to be heard. That's why I'm excited to announce on your show, live right now, that I am running for the 10th congressional district of Virginia and we're going to let parents take and have their voice back," Congressional candidate Brandon Michon said.

"The 10th district is the backyard of Washington DC. You have Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi who are going to do everything they can to keep it in their control and we're not going to let it happen," Michon explained.

"We're still fighting for our children and parents continue to fight for their children every day," Michon added.

The congressional candidate told the Fox News host that if it hadn't been for media exposure their voices wouldn't have been heard and credited Carlson for helping parents take back control of their childrens education.

"Citizens all throughout our country, when they speak up, they now know they have a voice and that voice matters," Michon said. "I am so happy to be jumping in this race and to represent so many people who may not have the opportunity to be in a position to speak up. We just want to raise the bar. We just want what's better for our country, our kids, our economy. This is the best country in the world and I'm so excited."

Just because 60% was asleep entirely tuned out does not mean they share any traits in common with the epicenter of the land of fruit and nuts.

The one big item with Fairfax is the average resident checks in for a 10-30 year Beltway tour and mortgages needs to check out (sell a 700k house) to get 1/3 of their retirement saving the hell out. The difference between a 350k house and 700k house a 90 minute commute from DC center is the quailty of facilities serviced by the school bus, and if there is a place safe to park when visiting the cool dinner place when the kids are at home with the sitter. If the quality is bad at both places , the 350k house Baltimore with the near metro vibe, a few broken car windows, a less plesant train, will be more desirable than collar county with formerly good schools and houses with a price tag to high to sell at the pace of the past 20 years.

Castles made of sand, fall into the sea .....

I used to live in Manassas city, which was also in the 10th district.

I never once saw or heard from Jennifer Wexton, the “Blonde Bolshevik”.

The 10th district has changed significantly. Northern Prince William and most if not all of northern Fairfax are no longer in this district; likewise, Winchester and Frederick County (combined population over 130,000).

The district consists of Loudoun County (about 420,000 persons) and then goes south along the US 29 corridor to the north city limits of Charlottesville; the other 366,000 people in the district live in this area. The district picks up Spotsylvania County, which surrounds the southern city limits of Fredericksburg, and has over 100,000 residents. It also includes counties such as Fauquier, Culpeper and Orange. The new 6th district runs all the way from Salem to Winchester and is wholly west of the Blue Ridge, which is a distance of something like 190 miles.

I personally think the two “special masters” who ended up determining the district boundaries did a very good job. Northern Virginia has 30% of the people in the state and it is going to end up with 4 out of the 11 districts, but two of them might end up being competitive (the new 7th in Prince William and Stafford counties as well as the 10th).

The GOP should win the 1st district (the lower western shore of Chesapeake Bay, represented by Rob Wittman), the 2nd district (VA Beach, Chesapeake and the Eastern Shore of VA), the 5th district (western Richmond suburbs and south central VA, Bob Good), 6th district (Shenandoah Valley/I-81 corridor, Ben Cline), and the “fighting 9th” district (southwest VA, Morgan Griffiths). The ‘rats are solid in the 3rd (Norfolk and Portsmouth, Bobby Scott country), 4th (Richmond area, Don McEachin country), 8th (Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax Co., Don Beyer) and 11th (Fairfax Co., Gerry Connolly).

Abigail Nothingburger lost the game of musical chairs, as her former 7th district got cut up at least two if not three ways.

Brandon is well known to talk radio listeners in the DC area, as he was the first Loudoun parent to confront the Loudoun County school board and demand that they quit. I don’t know where he stands on other issues. There will be a crowded field for the GOP nomination. I think Aliscia Andrews, who also lives in Loudoun and was the 2020 opponent for Wexton, is running again. So is state senator Bryce Reeves from Spotsylvania County, who I’ve met and is a good guy. I’m guessing Delegate Nick Freitas from Culpeper will run in this district; he barely lost to Nothingburger in the 2020 election. Both Reeves and Freitas were outside the 10th district until a few weeks ago, when they were both drawn squarely into the 10th district. Hopefully the GOP nominates a solid conservative who will take it to Wexton in the fall

Wexton has an advantage, as she is from Loudoun, and Terry McAwful carried Loudoun County by I think 20,000 votes in the governor’s election. The GOP was unable to knock off any of the incumbent ‘Rat delegates in Loudoun, including the awful Wendy Goditis.

As the GOP only has 4 out of VA’s 11 seats currently, they’ll pick up 1 in the 2022 election and maybe 2.

I lived in McLean for 36 years. The district has been changed somewhat, but it is still affluent and now D+6. Reps have held the seat 60 out of the last 66 years. No more. RINO Comstock was the end. In 2004 Kerry was first Dem to win Fairfax County in over 40 years.

The district includes all of Clarke County, Frederick County and Loudoun County, parts of Fairfax County and Prince William County, as well as the independent cities of Manassas, Manassas Park and Winchester. The district closely matches Virginia’s voting patterns in statewide races with nearly identical margins as the final statewide results.

Beginning when it was re-created in 1952, the 10th district was in Republican hands for 60 of 66 years, including long stints in office by Joel Broyhill (1953-74) and Frank Wolf (1981-2014). Barbara Comstock, a former aide to Wolf, succeeded him after the 2014 election. Wexton defeated Comstock in the 2018 midterms, becoming only the second Democrat to win it..

Demographics

Specifically, whites represent about 61% of the population, and immigrants (largely Hispanic and Asian) represent over 20%. Just over half of adults hold at least a four-year college degree. The median income is $120,384.

The 10th district has 35,500 federal workers. By comparison, the 1st district has 46,900; the 11th has 51,900; and the 8th has 81,100. The eastern part of the district is home to Dulles Airport and technology, telecom and aerospace companies including Verizon Business Global LLC and Aeronautical Systems Inc.

If I recall Manassas City was overrun by immigrants. Approx 80% of K-12 students were in ESOL programs.

Hopefully if elected he will put an end to rapists being shuffled from school to school without consequences because they identify as trans. That is what Loudon County is known for nowadays.

The way to win this house election is to keep it in the general case. Department of education policy is all a US rep can do. A US REP is a real isolated part of the political machine that gets school boards elected.

VA state officials have the most control then the local school board and do it with enforcement bias of current laws. A constant, omnipresent audit by state officials of every piece of paper in district in my state sends the message.

Hopefully the local school board that made the choices decided that public service is not their thing, cause we found the time and place people are fired up. Without headlines school board revolt involves getting people in your town out... a few hundred voters can swing a school board election and it TAKES ZERO dollars, telephone calls are free. Parents need to describe in detail what communications have been coming home from these fools. Just a few call chains to get people out with notes on replacing the school board.

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