Jerry Moran: “the first election of any consequence, maybe the only one, but there may be some that I have not heard about, but the…”

“the first election of any consequence, maybe the only one, but there may be some that I have not heard about, but the first election of any consequence since November 8 occurred this week, and guess what, a Democrat won. Fairfax County is larger than any of our congressional districts. It has almost a million people. The chairman of the board of Fairfax County had been a Republican. He is now a colleague in the House of Representatives. So there was a special election to fill his place. Kate Hanely, the Democrat, rose to the position of chairman of one of the largest counties in the country through the usual way. She had no bumper-strip slogans, there were no cliches in the campaign, she had been an officer of her civic association, president of her PTA, she had invested enormous amounts of time in child care, health care, transportation, she chaired the regional body which develops policy on transportation for the Washington region. In other words, she had invested much of her adult life in serving her community. She was not an advocate of no government or in any way suggested that government is the problem. In fact, what she would say time and again is that good government is the solution to the problems that we have in developing the kind of quality we want for ourselves and our families.”