by Kerry Dougherty

I didn’t vote early on the redistricting referendum. But I’m definitely voting in person on Tuesday.

And I’m voting NO.

My unopened mail-in ballot is on my desk. I’ll turn it in to poll workers on Tuesday so I can vote without casting a provisional ballot. That’s what I did in the last two elections.

I understand the importance of banking early votes. Especially for people who might forget. Me? I never forget and nothing short of death would keep me away on Election Day. With help from the Supreme Court or the passage of the SAVE Act, we may actually go back to a real Election Day.

Nothing could keep me from voting in this disgraceful power grab of a special election.

I have another reason for wanting to vote in person this year. I want to see which of my friends and neighbors are passing out literature for the “yes” campaign. I want to look into the eyes of people who don’t want voters like me to have any representation in Congress.

Sun Tzu in his classic “The Art of War” said “know your enemy.”

I want to do just that.

For a long time, I assumed those on the left simply saw the world differently from the rest of us. But after seeing the private texts sent by Jay Jones in which he fantasized about putting two bullets in Republican Todd Gilbert’s head and how he thought it would be nice for Gilbert’s children to die in their mothers’ arms, I realized there is something malignant happening with the left in Virginia. Continue reading.