VIRGINIA (Washington Insider Magazine) – Andy Parker, whose young daughter Alison, a TV journalist, was killed in a live telecast in 2015, declared his candidacy for Congress on Thursday.
Parker, a longtime supporter of gun control and more regulation of the computer industry, is running for the Democratic candidacy in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. The Cook Political Report defines the district as “Solid Republican” because it has been under Republican control since 2011.
Rep. Bob Good, a staunch gun rights advocate who voted to reverse the 2020 voting results and has endorsed former President Donald Trump’s baseless assertion that the election was stolen, now holds the seat.
Parker cited Good’s inexcusable speech and disgraceful behavior as one of the grounds that prompted him to run for office, describing him as a leader in the modern ‘Lost Cause’ alleging the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump in his announcement.
Parker has stated that he wants to reduce the influence of huge tech corporations and billionaires, as well as make the internet secure for families and kids and make the market fairer for all.
This isn’t Parker’s first time campaigning for a public service position. Somewhere in the range of 2004 and 2008, he was an individual from the Henry County Board of Supervisors, and in 2007 he looked for a political race to the Virginia House of Delegates, yet was crushed by a Republican competitor. In 2017, Parker was thinking about running for Congress from Virginia’s sixth District, as per CNN.
In 2015, his young daughter Alison, a writer with WDBJ-TV, was lethally shot by a previous station worker while she was giving an account of air. Cameraman Adam Ward was additionally killed. The shooting incited Parker to forsake a second bid for the leading group of administrators.
Since his daughter’s killing, Parker has supported weapon control gauges and took on tech organizations for neglecting to take out recordings portraying the occurrence, documenting objections against Facebook and Google with the Federal Trade Commission.
Parker likewise affirmed before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2019, contending that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, safeguarding tech organizations from risk over what clients post, ought to be corrected.
Other Democratic hopefuls who will contend in an essential political decision on June 21 incorporate Lewis Combs, a lawyer and previous investigator in Charlottesville; rancher Warren McLellan; and Joshua Throneburg, an appointed priest and proprietor of a cleaning administration in Charlottesville.
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