First, in listing the local legislative delegation, he mentioned that he is “quite certain” that Delegates Mike Caputo, Tim Manchin and Linda Longstreth “will continue to be lawmaking blessings to Marion County.” Why isn’t he “absolutely certain?” Can it be that there is an election coming up, hence an element of uncertainty? If there is an election, might it be that there are other people running? I will be glad to drop off a list of the candidates for public office, which will be seen to include the names of Rick Starn, Lynette Kennedy McQuain and Travis Blosser, who are all running for the three positions for House of Delegates District 43 on the Republican ticket.
As Scott Brown famously said in Massachusetts in running for the U.S. Senate earlier this year, “This isn’t the Democratic Party’s seat, it’s the people’s seat.” The same way, these three positions don’t belong to the three who currently occupy them; they belong to the people of Marion County who are quite capable of choosing for themselves to whom to entrust their electoral confidence. And I am quite proud to be able to assist these three wonderful candidates.
In the same article, Oce did mention that Republican Cindy Frich may win the W.Va. Senate seat, but referred to her as a formerly contentious delegate.
I looked up the word “contentious”, and although there is one negative sense to the word in the sense of argumentative, anyone who knows Cindy Frich personally knows that that sense couldn’t possibly apply. Evidently the other meaning of “contentious,” which is a legal term meaning “pertaining to causes between contending parties” was intended.
To this charge, Cindy pleads guilty. In her years in the State House, she has taken great pride in setting forth conservative principles, sticking her neck out and defending the Constitution, thus “contending” against the stance taken by the current majority party on many issues where reasoned debate is what the citizens deserve, instead of a steamroller. On many issues, there is no conflict between “contending parties” when there is universal agreement. But when opposition is called for, you want someone who is not afraid to stand, alone if necessary, against the juggernaut of one-party rule. And she has done just that.
To all who respect the rule of law and believe that our representative republic is best served by the calm deliberations of citizen legislators who adhere to the spirit of the Constitution and do not see themselves as some sort of elite that is better than the rest of us, I wholeheartedly recommend an examination of the views held by Cindy Frich, running for the State Senate; and Rick Starn, Lynette Kennedy McQuain and Travis Blosser, running for the House of Delegates.
Andrew Sabak Chairman, Marion County Republican Committee