Vern McKinley Launches GOP Challenge to Incumbent Congressman Wolf in Virginia's Tenth District
June 25, 2007
Contact: Lisa Bell
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ASHBURN, VA—Vern McKinley today announced his bid to become the 2008 Republican Party nominee in northern Virginia’s Tenth Congressional District. The district extends from the suburbs of Washington, DC west to the West Virginia border and is currently represented by Republican Congressman Frank Wolf. The campaign will center upon McKinley’s experience working for the U.S. and foreign governments and his policy work for free market think tanks, with an emphasis on a return to a Reagan-era focus on limited government and reduced spending.
McKinley cites Congressman Wolf’s defense of the wasteful practice of earmarking and the dramatic drop in his National Taxpayers Union rating over the past decade, which has plummeted from 80 (B) to 45 (C-), as evidence of his abandonment of responsible fiscal principles. In addition, McKinley will contrast his views with the incumbent’s positions on entitlement spending, the role of the federal government and nation building and diplomatic principles.
Vern McKinley has a vast array of experience both in the public and private sector. During the 1980s and 1990s his work experience was concentrated in a variety of management and staff positions for financial sector agencies within the federal government, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Thrift Supervision. While at the RTC, McKinley attended the George Washington University School of Law’s evening program, graduating with honors in 1995. During these years he was also involved in independent policy analysis with the Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute.
Over the past eight years he has worked as a legal and policy advisor on financial and fiscal matters to domestic and foreign governments, including in the U.S., China, Nigeria, the Philippines, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kenya, the Sudan, Libya, Armenia, Yugoslavia (now Montenegro), Serbia, Kosovo and Tajikistan. McKinley is also actively involved with The Fund for American Studies, an educational organization based in Washington, DC that educates young leaders worldwide on the values of freedom, democracy and free-market economies.
“I have great concerns with the direction Congressman Wolf has gone in since he signed the Contract with America in 1994,” McKinley said. “In recent years, Congressman Wolf has gone off the deep end, especially on issues like spending and the role of the federal government. Time after time he has voted for one big government solution after another, including many of the recent initiatives of Speaker Pelosi,” McKinley noted. “I am running to provide a limited government choice for Republicans in the Tenth district,” he added.
Vern McKinley lives in Ashburn, Virginia with his wife Nona, son Ruben and daughter Catherine. Vern and Nona met in Yerevan, Armenia where Vern was advising the Central Bank of Armenia. He first moved to the Tenth District of Virginia in 1988.
To learn more about the McKinley for Congress campaign, please visit www.McKinleyforCongress.com.
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