Monday, I had the opportunity to travel to Richmond, Virginia for lobby day. Held on the federal holiday observing Martin Luther King’s birthday, lobby day is the first day of the new legislative year for the Commonwealth’s lawmakers in Richmond. Citizens from across Virginia take advantage of the holiday and day off to travel to Richmond and voice their opinions and concerns to their state legislators. In years past, groups gathered hundreds on the capitol grounds to rally support for, or opposition against, proposed legislation. Monday marked a new record of people who turned out to relay their opinion to their lawmakers. Back-to-back rallies for the Tea Party Movement(s) from around Virginia and the Virginia Citizen’s Defense League resulted in, not hundreds, but thousands of concerned citizens coming out to show their support for both organizations en mass. Supposedly, this one-two knockout rally punch resulted in the largest turnout ever seen on lobby day.
I am honored and humbled to have had the opportunity to join the thousands of patriots at the rallies to voice our support for Virginia’s pending legislation to assert Virginia’s sovereignty and protect our freedoms, liberties, and rights from overbearing federal legislation, regulation, and interference. I extend my gratitude and appreciation to all who attended to voice their opinion, regardless of whether or not they completely agree with my, or any other attendee’s, opinions and stances on the issues.