The VA07 GOP nominee, Derrick Anderson, is certainly not a moderate. As DCCC Chair Susan DelBene puts it, “Anderson’s anti-abortion and MAGA extremism is alarming.” Also note that Anderson actually CELEBRATED the overturning of Roe v Wade, stating:
“SCOTUS finally got it right, and overturned a 50 year decision of federalizing abortions. As Justice Alito stated, the lack of a constitutional reference to abortion requires Roe and Casey to be overturned.”
So that alone should disqualify this guy from VA07 voters’ serious consideration. But wait, there’s more!
“Derrick Anderson’s far-right agenda doesn’t end with abortion. Anderson would be another MAGA extremist doing Trump’s bidding in Congress at the expense of Virginia families. He’s a part of the MAGA following that defends and supports Trump at all costs – even as Trump continues to threaten American democracy. After Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies by a jury of his peers, Anderson was quick to attack the rule of law and an independent jury of Americans to claim that he ‘stand[s] with President Trump and in the defense of his innocence.’ The anti-abortion zealot unironically said ‘This should be rejected by every freedom-loving American.’”
That wasn’t the first time Anderson sided with lawlessness and threats to American democracy. Anderson claimed that the deadly January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol was not an insurrection. It’s no wonder that he enthusiastically accepted the endorsement of Derrick Van Orden, who attended the ‘Save America’ rally on January 6th and marched towards the Capitol. Anderson also happily accepted the endorsement of Elise Stefanik, who has refused to commit to certifying the results of the 2024 elections after voting to overturn the 2020 elections.”
As if all that wasn’t bad enough, in June 2024, Anderson’s campaign also accepted a $3,300 donation from Hunt Companies executive Woody L. Hunt. According to this article, “Hunt Companies, Inc., the largest of the military housing providers, agreed to a $500,000 settlement with no admission of guilt in a similar federal fraud case in 2022.” And in 2021, military families in Hawaii sued Hunt Companies over its failure to warn tenants that jet fuel contaminated their water supply, which displaced 3,000 families from their homes. Also, in 2018, eleven military families in Mississippi sued Hunt Companies for failing to address mold problems. Hunt Companies has also faced fraud allegations. Oh, and in 2022, the company paid $500,000 to settle allegations that it submitted false information to the Air Force about completion of work orders at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware in order to get higher performance incentive payouts.
Think it can’t get even worse? Well, how about the fact that Derrick Anderson also accepted donations from a guy named Ken Fisher – yeah, THIS guy.
“Billionaire money manager Ken Fisher ignited a firestorm after making offensive comments at a conference earlier this month, costing his firm more than $1.7 billion in client assets. A review of his Twitter feed reveals other instances of similar behavior.
On June 18, for instance, Fisher responded to a tweet stating that employees never leave a company for monetary reasons alone. ‘That is the general theory,’ he wrote in a tweet saved by Forbes. ‘But, if you have sex with them they either leave a lot faster or a lot slower; all depends. Risky business. LOL.'”
Oh, and then there’s this:
In a separate tweet posted in 2018, Fisher called Abraham Lincoln his least favorite U.S. president. Citing the economist Douglas C. North, he seemed to lament that slavery ended after the Civil War rather than several decades later.
“Douglas C. North proved slavery was profitable at the time of the war. Wait 30 years and technology would have rendered it profitless and slavery would have fallen peacefully,” he wrote. “And had it African Americans and everyone today would be hugely better off.”
Finally, check this out – and seriously think about what accepting donations from someone like this says about a political candidate’s judgment:
“The controversy at Fisher Investments dates back to October 8, when Ken Fisher spoke on stage at the Tiburon CEO Summit at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco. According to attendees, he compared gaining a client’s trust to ‘trying to get into a girl’s pants,’ and also made reference to genitalia, Jeffrey Epstein and tripping on acid.”
Yep, Republicans are definitely the party of “family values” – LOL! (Seriously, though, starting on 9/20, everyone eligible to vote in VA07 needs to mark their ballot for Eugene Vindman)
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