The Rappahannock Record asked both candidates in the 99th House District race a series of questions that have now been posted online. This last question asks them if there are any other local issues that they’d like to address…

Rappahannock Record: Name and explain one other local issue you plan to address through your service in the General Assembly. Why is it critical? How should it be resolved?

Albert Pollard: The biggest local issue is providing more local jobs for young people and watermen.

First, I will work to improve local job opportunities by creating aquaculture zones in our region and beyond.

While the measure is complex, the issue is simple. Watermen need more opportunity and an ability to have a reliable harvest. Oyster cage culture and spat on shell programs are two ways we can do this.
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Catherine Crabill: I consider the most compelling issue of our time and my campaign to be reclaiming and asserting our Constitution. As alluded to earlier, I will focus on asserting our 10th Amendment right to State Sovereignty to help diffuse the massive concentration of power in Washington, D.C.

That is essential to putting the power and control over every issue and area of our lives back into the hands of We The People. Every unconstitutional law and mandate issued out of Washington, D.C., is a local issue. I would work toward putting the federal government on notice that We the People of the Commonwealth of Virginia in asserting our 10th Amendment right to self determination will no longer accept their unconstitutional mandates.

For example, I would put them on notice that We the People did not incur that massive debt from failed companies and corporations, that should have been allowed to fail, and consequently, we will not accept liability for that debt. If the Congress continues to unconstitutionally vote for the Socialization of America, We The People will not accept such things as Nationalized health care or any other Socialist/Marxist agenda in the great Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Catherine Crabill then mentions No Child Left Behind and also voices her displeasure over the recent controversy involving 2,200 military absentee ballots that weren’t sent out in time for the 2008 election. I agree with her on that last one but, again, it’s not an issue that’s unique to 99th district residents.

Albert Pollard for Delegate