GOP candidate speaks at Tea Party gathering – The Winchester Star
WINCHESTER Proving campaign viability is at the forefront of Shak Hills run to challenge Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-10th, in 2018, he told a gathering of the Apple Valley Tea Party on Thursday night.
Comstock will not be re-elected in November of next year, the Northern Virginia publisher and commentator told the group of about 35 at the Frederick County Public Safety Building. It will not happen ... she knows it.
Comstock has been cited as a particularly vulnerable candidate a Republican in a purple district during a time of historic Democratic powerlessness. Eight Democrats have lined up to seek their partys nomination to run against her.
Hill, 52, is the only primary challenger thus far to come forward. He told the group Thursday that he aims to meet both or one of two goals to illustrate campaign viability and attract endorsements from prominent conservative figures: raise $100,000 by the end of September (a goal he said he has accomplished a third of) or receive money from 1,000 or more individual donors.
If those benchmarks are met, Hill said he feels it could lead to attention from right-wing media figures like Mark Levin, a conservative radio show host who lives in the 10th District, among other popular pundits. Once we prove campaign viability [they may] come.
A Catholic and former Air Force combat pilot and financial services professional, Hill is the principal of GuidingLightBooks.com a multimedia publishing services website. He lives in Centreville with his wife, Robin. They have raised six kids and fostered 46 other children.
In 2014 Hill unsuccessfully ran against Ed Gillespie for the GOP nomination to run against Democratic Sen. Mark Warner. Gillespie narrowly lost that senatorial race and is now the Republican nominee for governor, running against Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam.
Hill bills himself as a genuine conservative cure to 30-percent Republican Comstock, whom he criticizes for, among many things, voting against a House GOP bill to overhaul the 2010 Affordable Care Act and voting to kill an amendment to a House bill removing funding from the military budget to pay for transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for military members.
Hill also blasts Comstock for not being supportive enough of President Donald Trump; she called for him to step down as a nominee.
I am going to be a supporter. ... I am not going to block him at all, Hill said of Trump, who he started supporting after Trump won the GOP nomination for president. I am late to the Trump train, but I am on it.
If Hill manages to fulfill the requirements to appear on the ballot which will be released by the state Board of Elections after the November 2017 election he will face Comstock in a regular ballot primary in June.
Likening himself to the House Freedom Caucus sympathetic to the tea party and considered the farthest-right of House GOP groupings Hill said hed advocate for limiting or eradicating federal government involvement in things other than common defense.
If you want to change Congress, you have to change the people you send to Congress, Hill said.
Hill said hed be tough on immigration, not allowing unaccompanied minors to just flood through our nation, and that hed help get the wall built, a campaign promise of Trumps to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Hill expressed doubts that Comstock would not be favored by the Republican Party of Virginia, which, he said, is supposed to be unbiased. He told the group he expects to have to work against the establishment.
Were going to have to work smarter and harder, he said.
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