1. In one to two sentences, tell us your vision for the FCRC?

I believe the FCRC can serve as the heart and inspiration of a Republican resurgence in Fairfax County. The policies of the radical left are resulting in higher taxes, higher crime, and poorer outcomes in our schools, and a growing number of people are unhappy with this. We have an historic opportunity to connect with those people and work together to elect new political leadership at the county, state and national level.

2. What are your top three priorities if elected Chair?

In order to bring about a Republican renewal in Fairfax County, I would prioritize building out the FCRC leadership, especially filling the empty precinct captain positions, increasing our financial resources so that we can develop impactful messaging and better support our candidates, and prioritizing outreach to disengaged, nontraditional, and immigrant voters.

3. What changes (if any) would you make to the FCRC Executive Committee?

I would expand the FCRC leadership to include committees to address the following: Precinct Captain Support, Fundraising, Membership, Issues and Legislation, Media, Messaging, Campaign 2027, Media, Data and Technology, Outreach, Business Engagement, and Community Engagement.

4. Do you support a Special Committee with the goal to develop a FCRC Strategy (2025-2028)? Please provide any additional comments on the idea of a strategy, your intent, goals, points of strategy to include any restructure areas needed.

My experience with drafting strategies is that they cannot be written by committee. One person has to take leadership with input from all stakeholders. Developing a new strategy for 2025-2028 will be the first task in leadership.

5. Reference the scenario, as Chair, how would you have reacted to this situation that would have included a campaign plan to review with winnable voter goals, budget, and GOTV schedule? What plans do you have “to build the bench,” including future candidate recruitment, vetting, preparation, training, and resource support?

I would create a committee now called Campaign 2027 to start planning for the 2027 local campaigns, which would develop a strategy and timeline for identifying, training and supporting candidates, developing messaging and fundraising, and developing an outreach campaign. I strongly believe that we need to increase support and resources to candidates, as well as invest more in sample ballots, data, and voter outreach.

The 2023 GOTV initiative was a very important effort, with valuable lessons learned. We must bring those lessons into our planning for 2027. We learned, for example, that with limited resources, efforts are better focused on hard Rs, soft Rs and Is, rather than on soft Rs, Is, and soft Ds. Outreach to hard Rs is important not only for getting out the vote, but also for identifying new Republican party members, volunteers, and even potential candidates. We also learned that while individual candidates run on their own unique platforms, the Republican Party must present strong, unified messaging that will motivate voters to get to the polls. Lastly, we learned that microtargeting unengaged voters is one of the most impactful use of resources, so that must be a key component of our GOTV effort.

1. In one to two sentences, tell us your vision for the FCRC?

We need to be a more dynamic political entity geared more to action than to deliberation. Many younger conservatives avoid membership for fear of a bingo game breaking out.

2. What are your top three priorities if elected Chair?

1. Enhanced candidate support. Starting with early candidate recruitment and training (not the Amway meeting style of introducing them to consultants). This includes inculcating the ethos that all Republican candidates are running as a team against the opposition. Not against each other. It also means that we don’t throw new candidates into the deep end of a campaign to see if they can swim or not. Negotiate a deeply discounted ‘starter’ package from vendors to get the candidates up and running within days of them filling out their formal paperwork to run. This package would include business cards, palm cards, door hangers, a website, yard signs and tee shirts if they want to go that far. They would pay the vendors directly after presenting their credentials as Republican candidates and those credentials have been verified by the FCRC credentials committee (proposed). All of these starter packages will be the same to promote the party brand and secure the volume discount. They will only differ by name, contact information, office sought and head shot.

2. Shape the battlefield. Take stock of the opposition. This includes the media. I would establish a podcast/video streaming/social media center in the FCRC HQ to stream the Republican rebuttal to the actions taken by the Board of Supervisors, the School Board and the increasingly hidden executive actions of Fairfax County government employees when exceeding their authority. This program would serve to tap the energy of the college Republicans who are twenty minutes’ walk from our HQ and who also happen to be extremely skilled in this media. The ongoing monitoring of the various county deliberations would also serve to catalogue the voting records of our opponents as well as their activities/advocacies outside of their positions (seats on boards et al.). This feeds back into #1 above as candidate support. Publishing a cogent conservative perspective to current events will serve to dilute the propaganda spewed by the mainstream media.

3. Funding. We need to organize an annual blacktie gala dedicated to fundraising. The Loudoun County Republican Committee does this quite successfully now. This event’s main focus will be to build morale among the members. Large donors will get the opportunity to meet the candidates in a social setting as opposed to a ‘cold call for money’ situation. Funds raised will go to all candidates EQUALLY; no more picking winners as in the past. We should also explore alternative forms of nontraditional funding from PACs and endowments.

3. What changes (if any) would you make to the FCRC Executive Committee?

I would limit voting on the executive committee membership to FCRC subcommittee vice chairs and magisterial district chairpersons. The various groups currently granted membership would be reclassified as associate advisory members with no vote. I would publish the minutes of executive committee deliberations and votes online for all the membership to read, including voting records.

4. Do you support a Special Committee with the goal to develop a FCRC Strategy (2025-2028)? Please provide any additional comments on the idea of a strategy, your intent, goals, points of strategy to include any restructure areas needed.

Starting immediately, I would double down; not water down our conservative message. “Dream Big! Work Hard! Build a better future!” We can fight and win any issue under that banner. It’s the reason all the people we are reaching out to came to America. They are predisposed to join us. Our strategy should be to let them know we still are keepers of the flame of American Exceptionalism. Based on the reception I received at various venues sharing that message during my campaign for the Board of Supervisors, I propose to use my position as chairman to go anywhere, speak to anyone and proclaim that message.

5. Reference the scenario, as Chair, how would you have reacted to this situation that would have included a campaign plan to review with winnable voter goals, budget, and GOTV schedule? What plans do you have "to build the bench," including future candidate recruitment, vetting, preparation, training, and resource support?

I would practice what I preached all last year, almost from the moment I accepted the nomination to run for the board of supervisors from the Providence District. I saw that my opponent could outspend me 10,000 to 1. Trying to fundraise to beat her dollar for dollar wasn’t going to work. Then I looked at Providence District’s map. I overlayed the precincts, and the VA delegate and Senate districts and arrived at Venn Diagrams that focused the efforts of all candidates with a foot in our district. In particular I was concerned about the ‘at large’ candidates who had an even more daunting financial burden than I did.

I came up with my ‘District Strategy’. This strategy identified precincts with common interests of all the 15 Republican candidates running in Providence District. (It could just as easily been Sully or any other district). All of these candidates could join the existing party structure of chairman, captains and volunteers and pool their manpower to offset the huge dollar imbalances. By use of a very reasonably priced communal or ‘team’ door hanger, all of the candidates could be assured of a ‘first touch’ on every door knocked in the district. Whether they knocked on that door or not.

Then, to maximize the efficiency and quality of subsequent door knocking, we would get the results of the early voting and remove those doors from our walkbooks. With each iteration of this exercise we would improve our targeting and quality of each touch. By the third outing, the state candidates would have an extremely reduced and refined subset of doors to knock in those precincts in their overlaid house or senate district. Even if they chose to focus on other districts, these would still be touched by other campaign volunteers by virtue of the shared door hanger.

All of this without the ‘how many voters can dance on the head of a pin’ expensive data list purchasing and subsequent delays in targeting walkbooks. All of this money would have been better spent on volumes of communal door hangers and palm cards. I actually designed a door hanger with a perforation below the knob hole that allowed it to be used as a palm card as well.

We finally got several candidates on board in the Providence District and it seemed to work well enough as a proof of concept. Well enough, I believe that we can make it standard operating procedure for all elections, even federal presidential, senate and congressional seats.

Overall, this success speaks to a need for teamwork and solidarity among our Party’s candidates. Like the Marine Corps saying that ‘every Marine is a rifleman first’, every candidate is a Republican first. No picking winners and losers. We all go into the fight together. And we won’t quit until we win!

1. In one to two sentences, tell us your vision for the FCRC?

My vision is to provide conservative leadership throughout the community that is centered in uniting Americans with a common purpose of protecting our country's values.

2. What are your top three priorities if elected Chair?

My goal for the FCRC is clear: we must win elections. To achieve this goal, we need a multifaceted approach:

1. We need a robust community outreach program to engage with minority and young conservative residents effectively.

2. A comprehensive candidate development program will ensure we have strong, capable leaders representing us who will be vetted by community leaders identified through our outreach.

3. Continuous fundraising efforts targeting small dollar donations will be essential to amplify our message during election seasons.

3. What changes (if any) would you make to the FCRC Executive Committee?

The current leadership does not clearly designate areas of responsibility. Like many candidates, I was confused about who to go to for certain help or answers during my campaign. Our new structure is based on an executive leadership team in which each vice chair is responsible for a specific area that we, as candidates, found to be critical to run a successful campaign.

The teams include:

1. Executive Team (supports specific aspect of the mission and creates a committee to support the plan)

• 5 Vice Chairs: Vice Chair of Communications, Vice Chair of Technology, Vice Chair of Outreach, Vice Chair of Events, and Vice Chair of Fundraising

2. Leadership Team (supports district-wide efforts that support Fairfax GOP mission)

• District Chairs

3. Management Team (supports efforts of Executive and Leadership Teams)

• Secretary, Treasurer, Parliamentarian, Membership Director, Volunteer Director, Election Integrity Director, Strategic Intelligence Director

4. Special Committees: Youth Outreach, Community Safety, Community Affairs, and School Initiatives

4. Do you support a Special Committee with the goal to develop a FCRC Strategy (2025-2028)? Please provide any additional comments on the idea of a strategy, your intent, goals, points of strategy to include any restructure areas needed.

I am in favor of a Special Committee. I envision the Chairmanship as a collaborative effort where we work together to reshape the dynamics of Fairfax County. I've already assembled a strong team of former candidates, but I also recognize the crucial role of grassroots efforts. So, I would welcome additional input from committee members and/or the FCRC Membership.

One important component of our strategy is to restore our reputation within the community by identifying and engaging with community leaders. We should hold community events, such as soccer or flag football tournaments for youth and participating in food and clothing drives. We also need to involve the young conservatives in the area by helping them with networking events and including them in our community outreach.

We should also create effective Fairfax GOP messaging on current local and national issues that affect our community in local and national media organizations. In the absence of true messaging from VA, we must establish narratives that take away the power of false reporting used by our opposition.

5. Reference the scenario, as Chair, how would you have reacted to this situation that would have included a campaign plan to review with winnable voter goals, budget, and GOTV schedule? What plans do you have "to build the bench," including future candidate recruitment, vetting, preparation, training, and resource support?

In the first year, we will develop a comprehensive candidate training curriculum that includes the five critical components of an election as evidenced in the five Vice Chair positions I propose (Communications, Technology, Community Engagement, Fundraising, and Social Media). We will also have our vetted candidates interviewed by the key local community leaders to gain community trust and investment.

An issue many former candidates share regarding the 2023 elections is that most candidates did not begin campaigning until after the endorsement vote in mid-April. We must identify potential candidates much earlier in the process. Candidates must be identified based on their attributes and electability and vetted at least a year before the election. Finally, along with local leader input, Fairfax GOP must create messaging for three critical issues for candidates to push on the campaign trail. Those three critical issues will come through our robust community engagement to better understand what matters to local voters.

It is important that we provide initial funding for each endorsed candidate to kick off their campaign and help them with getting their campaign materials created. Also, we must see representation from the Fairfax GOP Executive Leadership Team in attendance at all candidate events. As a former candidate, I understand the stress related to running a campaign, and seeing support from your Republican leadership helps to motivate you and remind you that you are not alone in your campaign. Additionally, we will have Fairfax GOP concentrated promotions of all endorsed candidates on social media and local and national media.

The days of picking favorites after we recruit candidates is over. We ask them to run and we must support them. As FCRC chair I consider myself to be a partner in each candidate race and I will not leave them behind. That is the integrity and loyalty that was instilled in me from my military service and that will never change. This is a war to save our country and as Chair I am ready to serve and fight again to save our nation.