angelatc
04-14-2016, 09:20 AM
Again with the "won't win!" label. :(
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/why-these-republicans-are-running-for-congress--and-almost-certainly-wont-win/2016/04/11/f3642f20-f5c6-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html
Robert Broadus, 44, used to be a Democrat. His relatives were Democrats. His Prince George’s community was Democratic.
The Iraq War, he says, made him wake up.
He was discouraged by Democratic lawmakers who had voted in favor of a military conflict he saw as unnecessary. As a veteran, he said he understood the sacrifice the country was asking of its service members.
Broadus graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1994 with a degree in political science. After five years in the Navy — which included time on an Israeli kibbutz and on ships wading into war zones — he left military life at the rank of lieutenant in 1999.
Information technology training in the military allowed Broadus to find a job as a “computer nerd,” he said. Meanwhile, he said his interest in politics grew while he watched the country “moving eagerly toward socialism.”
His political awakening came to a head in the 2008 presidential election, when he decided to vote for Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), who had opposed the war. Broadus also unsuccessfully sought the GOP primary nomination for the 4th Congressional District that year, hoping to face off against then-Rep. Albert R. Wynn (D), who had voted for the war.
“I opened my mind up to the Republicans,” he said. “I never considered them before.”
Today, the divorced father of two considers himself an “anti-Federalist,” a movement that opposes a strong central government. Broadus’s top priorities as a member of Congress would be to amend the Constitution, pass religious liberty laws and terminate the personal income tax.
At candidate forums, Broadus usually begins with a history lesson, urging black voters to take up his cause: “I am involved in this fight because government doesn’t want to leave me alone,” he says. “I’d like people to think about what freedom really is.”
https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2016/02/24/Local/Images/md4forum_171456294268.jpg?uuid=cpgpJNq9EeWCEPC9jek V9g
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/why-these-republicans-are-running-for-congress--and-almost-certainly-wont-win/2016/04/11/f3642f20-f5c6-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html
Robert Broadus, 44, used to be a Democrat. His relatives were Democrats. His Prince George’s community was Democratic.
The Iraq War, he says, made him wake up.
He was discouraged by Democratic lawmakers who had voted in favor of a military conflict he saw as unnecessary. As a veteran, he said he understood the sacrifice the country was asking of its service members.
Broadus graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1994 with a degree in political science. After five years in the Navy — which included time on an Israeli kibbutz and on ships wading into war zones — he left military life at the rank of lieutenant in 1999.
Information technology training in the military allowed Broadus to find a job as a “computer nerd,” he said. Meanwhile, he said his interest in politics grew while he watched the country “moving eagerly toward socialism.”
His political awakening came to a head in the 2008 presidential election, when he decided to vote for Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), who had opposed the war. Broadus also unsuccessfully sought the GOP primary nomination for the 4th Congressional District that year, hoping to face off against then-Rep. Albert R. Wynn (D), who had voted for the war.
“I opened my mind up to the Republicans,” he said. “I never considered them before.”
Today, the divorced father of two considers himself an “anti-Federalist,” a movement that opposes a strong central government. Broadus’s top priorities as a member of Congress would be to amend the Constitution, pass religious liberty laws and terminate the personal income tax.
At candidate forums, Broadus usually begins with a history lesson, urging black voters to take up his cause: “I am involved in this fight because government doesn’t want to leave me alone,” he says. “I’d like people to think about what freedom really is.”
https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2016/02/24/Local/Images/md4forum_171456294268.jpg?uuid=cpgpJNq9EeWCEPC9jek V9g