When Barbara Comstock was in the VA legislature she voted for mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds (rape) for any woman wanting an abortion. She served 2 terms there before running for US Congress representing the VA 10th congressional district. She won on an off year, mid term election.
In 2016 she’s being challenged by LuAnn Bennett a Democratic businesswoman who was once married to Congressman Jim Moran. She has a chance of winning for a lot of reasons. One is that it’s a Presidential election year. The other is that the website of the NRCC website has been raising money for a few months in order to fight her. They think she’s a real threat. They consider her a serious challenge. And by the way, LuAnn Bennett hasn’t even announced yet, rumour has it she will tomorrow.
Congresswoman Comstock has a colorful and exciting history. She is a pro life anti- woman, woman and damned proud of it. She wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade and make abortion illegal even in the case of incest or rape.
She is a professed Clinton hater, one of the lawyers the Rebubs sent out to find a way to take down Clinton from his first days in office. You may remember her from TV, she was a right wing talking head, about as right wing as you can get.
She was investigating “White Water” and “Travel Gate” while working for the oversight committee as a staffer for Dan Burton. An investigation that wasted about 80 million dollars of tax payer money.
She worked for the 2000 Bush W campaign doing opposition research on Gore. As an attorney she also represented Scooter Libby and Tom Delay.
What does her challenger LuAnn Bennett have going for her besides the backing of the Democratic Party? Well, she’s a Dem and will be on the ballot. That’s enough for me.
Big thanks to our own lowkell for breaking this story. (For me at any rate)