High-school biology teacher Feda Kidd Morton of Fluvanna County is one of seven candidates for the Republican nomination for Congress in the Fifth District of Virginia. Should she win the GOP nod, she will face incumbent Representative Tom Perriello (D-Ivy) in November’s general election. Morton’s campaign has received both positive and negative coverage in the press.
Morton spoke with the Charlottesville Libertarian Examiner after the Fifth District GOP convention at Hampden-Sydney College on May 1.
Top Three Issues
“The top three issues that I would emphasize” during the general election campaign, Morton said, “would be the economy and jobs, the illegal immigrant problem and protecting our borders,” adding that “nationally, I’m very concerned about what’s going on in Iran with the nuclear power situation there and getting a handle on that.”
Asked how she would unify the party after the seven-way Republican primary on June 8, Morton replied:
Party Builder
“I’m a party builder [and] have been for 20 years, so I know most of these unit chairs. I’ve worked as a unit chair for ten years of my career, so I just think you come out with a solid conciliatory message of ‘let’s do what’s good for America’ and reach out to everybody with that theme and pull people back in because we’re united in that.”
She continued, “America needs everybody pulling together to handle [these] problems that we have up there in Washington.”
Bad for America
With regard to the various elements within the Republican party – such as social conservatives, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, and Club for Growth types – Morton said she would be able to bring them together on a “single path” of “let’s beat Tom Perriello.”
She explained that Perriello “doesn’t represent the Fifth District’s conservative base. That’s the combining theme that we need to have. I don’t care what type of conservative you are, we all agree that he’s bad for the Fifth District and he’s bad for America.”
Morton repeated: “Let’s just kick him out and take that seat over with a good solid principled conservative.”
Speaking about her own experience during the campaign, Morton concluded:
“I’m just excited about the number of new people that are coming out in the process. It inspires me to see that America is still alive and well, that our base is still out there and that America is still that shining city on the hill, no matter what Obama has done for us in the last year and a half.”
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As a card carrying member of the Libertarian party, and chair of the VA 5th district LP affiliate, I can with confidence say that there is no way that this statement rings true:
"With regard to the various elements within the Republican party – such as social conservatives, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, and Club for Growth types – Morton said she would be able to bring them together on a “single path” of “let’s beat Tom Perriello.”
There are these things called "principles" that some voters have, and Feda will NOT unite anyone on the basis of "let's beat Tom Perriello." Actually, I find it quite insulting to my political integrity that she suggests that she could dupe any group of people into voting for that reason alone. With this statement, she proves that she is just more of the same; just another candidate with bad GOP history who delivers the same old jargon, with no real meaning to the things she says.
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