Opinion
Why I Support Delores Oates for Delegate in HD 31
Whenever you are out in Southeast Frederick, Front Royal, or Clarke County (Berryville) and you see four people together, usually a 5th person will join, and that will be Delegate Delores Oates, who was born in the region. Delores has put kids through the school system, and understands the legislative District in ways that pretty much every other candidate could not. And that is because Delores lives and breathes this District.
Delores has been helpful in getting funding into Clarke County for local projects. Delores travels to each event in the 31st Legislative District and is a mainstay at events such as National Night Out, the Clarke County Fair, the Frederick County Fair, the Warren County Fair, and too many others to name here.
Take the Burwell Morgan Mill in Millwood, VA. And Claremont Farms in Clarke County. Delores Oates secured vital state funding for both endangered locales to ensure their survival. This is how a talented and skilled legislator acts. She or he finds a need in the community, and gets the job done in Richmond. Both the Burwell Morgan Mill and the Claremont Farms in Clarke County had been neglected by previous legislators. This includes a previous Democrat Member of the House of Delegates. But not Delores Oates – Delores – because she’s always out there talking to people and learning about their issues and what is important to them – was able to secure this vital funding to ensure these two local treasures.
Other people talk, but Delores gets things done. Delores has been out there working on getting more transportation funding for the region. Delores is right on all the issues. She introduced a bill which would protect girls’ sports by banning biological males from playing in girls’ sports. A bill that Democrats killed. For those of you who have daughters, do you want some boy who can’t cut it in male sports to transition to becoming a female so he can become great in athletics? Take the case of Payton McNabb, a young female volleyball player who was injured when going up against a transgender male. Ms. McNabb had her potentially promising volleyball career ended by a transgender female who spiked the ball into her face, giving her a concussion, a brain bleed, and a permanent brain injury. This occurred in North Carolina back in 2022.
When voting this November, remember that Delores Oates has been out there in the community these past many years, serving and listening. Delores Oates takes her orders from We the People, not They the Special Interests. Delores Oates listens to us; she cares about us. She loves us. And for those who say that they’ve never met Delores – maybe that’s because they don’t get out of their houses much?
John Massoud
Chairman of Virginia’s 6th Congressional District Republican Committee
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