Dick Black (a Vietnam combat veteran) is a staunch non-interventionist. I met with him a few weeks ago, and we discussed at great length the immorality and unconstitutionality of undeclared wars of aggression, the misguided policy of regime change, and the idiocy of the recent trend of siding with Al Qaeda in the interest of that regime change. On that issue, he's our man, no doubt - and with the credentials to back up his stance.
See:
http://www.dickblack4senate.com/my-p...-on-syria.html
Dick has been a bit of a standardbearer for social conservatism at the state level, but would likely refocus on fiscal, civil liberties, and foreign policy issues were he elected to Congress. I would expect him to vote as a conservative on those issues, were they to come up, but I wouldn't expect social issues to be the defining position of his congressional legacy.
As far as campaign factoids: This is an open-seat nomination contest, as the incumbent Republican Rep. Frank Wolf is retiring (thank heaven). The only other declared candidate right now is State Delegate Barbara Comstock. She ain't a liberty candidate, let's just put it that way. Not the spawn of Satan, but not much good. There are other names being rumored to enter, but no official announcements yet.
The nomination contest will be a district-wide convention, NOT a primary.
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