Don’t expect early declarations of GOP victory on election night.
Does anyone else still remember November 2010? It was the Tea Party year. Conservatives had spent months organizing and rallying all over the country in opposition to President Barack Obama’s agenda, and, as the crucial midterm election approached, I’d been out on the campaign trail for months. For the final swing before Election Day, I set off toward Southwestern Virginia, where a young buddy of mine, Vince Kreul, was working on the congressional campaign of Morgan Griffith, the Republican challenger who was taking on 14-term incumbent Democrat Rep. Rick Boucher.
The Ottawa cop who twice donated to the so-called “Freedom Convoy,” which occupied swaths of the capital for three weeks last winter and prompted the country’s first use of its Emergencies Act, has been docked a week’s pay and ordered to undergo a restorative justice process with residents affected by the protest.
