Rally Virginia Veterans For Change Through The Ballot Box

Rally Virginia Veterans For Change Through The Ballot Box

Great! We won an important Presidential election. Hard work paid off. President Trump has a mandate for change and momentum to accomplish it. But that momentum is not safe. We’ve seen the fury of an opposing party willing to do virtually anything to recover power and destroy their opponents.Veterans Forward! Every Veteran, Every Vote, Every Election!

We must win the future and sustain this momentum. Virginia must not become a single party state. Intelligent debate empowers constructive solutions. Virginia must not lose its important leadership role for common sense policies, family first positions, and business friendly actions. We are one election loss away from a return to failed Democratic Party agendas, absent leadership, and incompetent or obstructive actions.

Veterans support a bright future for Virginia, and stand firmly in opposition to the adoption of failed California-style policies that would ruin our beloved Commonwealth:

• Environmental insanity
• Assault on our liberties
• No Right to Work
• Ever growing taxes, regulations, bureaucracy
• An Old Dominion Sanctuary state
• Limits on the rights of parents in the lives of their children
• Unsafe communities

Voter trust lost by the Democrats will not return without accountability reflected in thought, word, and deed. They seem unwilling or unable to accept this reality. That’s to our advantage.

Solution

Veterans are a solution and not a problem. We represent the strength of Virginia in our numbers, our talents, and our commitment to family, community, and faith. We respect Duty, Honor, and Country. We value service, competence, accountability – and humility. Challenges motivate us. Teamwork comes naturally. Leadership inspires us.

We worry

For four years corrupt, incompetent leaders in the White House, Congress, and the administration misled the nation. Their actions were despicable.

• The last Commander in Chief was not in command. His diminished mental abilities and feeble state were denied or hidden. Public discussion resulted in public and personal attacks. A corrupted Democratic Party carried this deception into a deceitful campaign for a second term.
• Our Service men and women were needlessly imperiled. Weakness and dishonesty humiliated those who served in Afghanistan, sparked two ongoing wars, and prompted numerous and often unanswered attacks on our forces. Deterrence was needlessly sacrificed, and lives were lost.
• The borders were overrun. Unaccountable Democratic Party bureaucrats and faceless loyalists sacrificed the security of America to import future voters. Illegal immigrants now overwhelm cities, schools, and services across the nation. Corrective steps are subverted and delayed by those who created the problems.
• Democrats and much of the national media were complicit in the web of lies told to unsuccessfully retain political power or market share. Accountability is discounted in the cries to “Move On” and “Hands Off.” Book deals and newly aware authors offer fraudulent excuses and empty, inane explanations about what happened.
• Rampant fraud, waste, and abuse in government persists, corrective action is attacked, and runaway national debt is defended. Habit and convenience overwhelm initiative and creative solutions. “It’s always been done that way” too often suffices as adequate explanation to wait.

But we are hopeful.

• Change is hard but collective energy and talented teams appear committed to results. The American people voted overwhelmingly for change. The political will, although finite, seems sufficient to accomplish necessary first steps and even innovations.
• We have all seen the perils of inaction and complacency. Our nation is off track. What has taken years, if not generations, cannot be reversed immediately. But every step taken toward the return of fiscal sanity, community spirit, and national unity is a step away from an unacceptable status quo. Leadership demands priorities and change requires commitment. There is new evidence of both in the nation’s will to accept change.
• The President is a change agent and a dedicated deal maker in a world awakening to the new realities of technology, diplomacy, commerce, and security. The risks to the nation demand action, not acceptance. The consequences are too dire to abide the drift toward a very dangerous tomorrow and weakened deterrence. It’s time for a Reset.
• A growing economy, fair trade, lower costs, and plentiful jobs will magnify and accelerate change in America. We are the world’s largest market with advantages now rediscovered. An efficient and fair market freed from onerous, unnecessary regulations can empower innovation and restore the American Dream.
• Veterans swore an oath to the Constitution. Many have seen the best and worst in mankind. Their strength is built on perspective, experience, and respect – for their fellow service members, the citizens they served, and the Constitution they defend to this day.

And we are ready.

• To respond to a call to action to Vote, Volunteer, and Lead in Virginia.
• To follow the lead of strong capable leaders who value the energy and integrity of those who understand the price of our liberties and the rewards of service.
• To support constructive policies that restore and protect our liberties, our jobs, our communities, and our families.
• To promote change and hold those accountable at the ballot box who allow the nation and Virginia to drift back toward division, decline, and despair in a single party state.

In summary:

1. We won an important election!

2. We are OK for this moment only!

3. We are highly concerned, but hopeful!

4. We must win the future!

5. We must be ready to act!

6. We start now!

With our strategic focus on GOTV, our clear goals and objectives, and our great team of Veterans and Veteran supporters, AVV is confident of our ability to, once again, bring the collective vote of Veterans to bear and help achieve change through the Ballot Box.

Bob Wood
LTG (R), US Army
CEO, American Veterans Vote