You may know me from Twitter as "Politidope" or at least you know someone who does.
If you lived in Downtown Richmond, VA around 2012, you remember me as the tall black guy with braces asking folks, "are you registered to vote at your current address" non-stop.
If none of that rings a bell, you may have read some of this in Down With Tyranny three weeks ago.
Every year, I take it upon myself to adopt a campaign to knock thousands of doors for during the summer and until Election Day. In 2017, it was to help Democrats hold on to the Executive Mansion. In 2018, it was Jennifer Wexton's campaign in our nationwide effort to help Democrats flip the House of Representatives by the largest margin in American history. In 2019, it was Dan Helmer's campaign to help Democrats flip the Virginia House of Delegates and add 21 (!) flipped districts since Trump was inaugurated. This year, I’m already working to get out the vote here in Virginia and nationally for Joe Biden.
Now I'm running for the Virginia House of Delegates to give Democrats in my district a choice for the first time in over a decade.
I'm not just a tireless activist and someone who gets involved in efforts like the successful one over the last few months to recruit candidates in every single Florida state legislative district. I actually already work in the building and am essentially applying for a promotion. Here in Virginia in 2019, we had Democratic challengers in 92 out of 100 House districts. I am working right now not only to win my election, but to recruit candidates so that number is 100 out of 100 in 2021. We've already got people filling up those ballot lines and this is going to happen. I will not allow it not to happen.
If elected, I would be the first African-American elected to serve Arlington in the Virginia General Assembly since Civil War Reconstruction.
In a time in which our country is finally waking up to the realization that black lives matter, we have to continue pushing because life is literally the bare minimum. We have to promote and elevate black voices to positions of power. We can't simply point at the racism of the GOP while -- in the most progressive area of the state, Northern Virginia, we only have ONE African American elected to the General Assembly.
The odds are obviously not stacked in my favor and they never have been for black candidates in Virginia. I'm in this race because I already know that and I know what it will take to win this.
Learn more about me or get more involved in my campaign on my website.
