Why you should be a delegate for Jim Bowden to
the First District Convention in November.
Jim Bowden’s
Statement: Dignity, Justice, and Hope – All
For Virginia
For the past ten years I was Jo
Ann Davis’s political ally and friend, I saw
her build a unique legacy as a public servant.
Republican Jo Ann Davis made principled stands on
conservative issues and championed the Armed
Services, military families, and our Tidewater
environment. Her walk was her faith witness.
Above all she was the bright exception to the
rule that politics is just about power and money.
Jo Ann Davis was all about public service. I
share her passion for serving the People of our
First District home.
My life is public service. Duty, honor, country
as a soldier in the Army. Family, community and
Commonwealth as a civilian.
I will work Jo Ann’s issues
and my own to promote dignity, justice and hope.
I have a vision of the future ‘’
Destiny of Freedom and Opportunity for Virginia
and America. As your Congressman, I will move us
towards that destiny by supporting our military
in the War Against Terrorists , securing our
borders against illegal aliens, cutting both
taxes and spending, and protecting our Tidewater
environment. I can give that vision voice. I know
what needs to be done. I shall keep public
service first. I shall keep America’s First
District as America’s Best.
Our
nomination for America’s First District will
be decided by a Convention. This is the first
essential vote to win. Whichever candidate brings
more delegates – wins.
Be a
Delegate
Please be
my delegate to the First District Convention on a
Saturday – November 10th – at Caroline
County (Bowling Green), VA.
It will
take a few hours of your life. It will determine
who wins this election.
The Election. In the
fullness of time Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis was,
in the words of her husband Chuck, “fully
healed of cancer.” She was called home to
Heaven. The time is now for Virginians to compete
and earn the People’s votes to represent the
First District of Virginia. Getting elected in
your own right has been our legacy since 1776.
Tidewater usually welcomes all candidates in our
spirit of “live and let live.”
This election is unique. The short
time available – right at the time of
general election – means the only way to
nominate our candidate is by a convention. That
means all the money, power, special interests and
influence in the world can’t buy this
election. The nomination goes to whoever has the
most delegates show up for a few hours at a High
School auditorium – probably on November
10th or 17th.
That means the slick, glossy
flyers, the robo-telephone calls, the TV and
radio ads, rallies and paid consultants can not
market a candidate to you. No one can buy this
election.
The nomination can be won by the citizens
who have the fire in their bellies for freedom to
give half a day for their right to choose their
own representatives.
This election, if it’s
decided by a grassfire of Virginia voters, more
than grassroots manipulation will be by the
People and for the People. Not the politicians.
Not the consultants. Not the special interests.
Not the money and power people. Not the activist
king makers.
Furthermore, First District voters
get to set the standard for their Representative.
All the candidates will be Republican and
Conservative. If you, the First District, want to
set a higher standard – like true public
service, the best prepared and most capable for
duty on the Armed Services Committee from day
one, the vision for our destiny, and the voice to
speak the truth to power, then choose Jim Bowden.
ONLY if you come
to the convention as a delegate can you determine
who is your nominee.
The
Issues.
All the Republican candidates for
Congress in the First District will be
Conservative on the issues. The issue - about
issues - is what the candidate knows and how they
will work to solve in the U.S. House of
Representatives. What should make the difference
on issues is how the candidates answer the
questions of the voters.
Here
are the issues Jim Bowden stands on. You can read
much more at his long standing web site,
www.americancivilization.net
The War. Bowden
will provide oversight and appropriations to help
win the long, long War against Terrorists. He
understands the conflict in its context as a
World War. He will vote to support the troops
deployed in Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
for the successful completion of the missions.
His job for 40 years, as a soldier and as a
consultant, has been National Defense. He knows
what Congress can do to support winning
strategies, operations, tactics, and
technologies. He knows many of the Ground
Commanders, past and present, personally, by
mutual friends or reputation and will listen to
them advocate for the troops. His son-in-law
serves in Iraq today. Bowden will use insights
from his 20 years of Active Army service and 15
years as a ‘Military Futurist’, analyst
and manager. He is a published and DoD military
author for over 25 years.
Illegal Immigration. Close
the borders to ILLEGAL ALIENS now. No excuses. No
delays. Bowden will work for the proper funding
for the full enforcement of the laws already on
the books. He supports amendments to fix the
worst parts of the 1986 Immigration law. He
favors restrictions on immigration from
Terrorist-producing countries. Bowden advocates a
large, healthy LEGAL immigration of over a
million persons a year – especially to
re-unite families. Deport criminal illegal aliens
first.
Taxes. Making
the Bush tax cuts permanent and pressing for more
is the only way to fuel the economy. Taxes kill
jobs. The increase in taxes since the 70s in
Virginia, for all taxes – local, state,
federal - costs the average family of four ($51k
@ year in Virginia) at least $157.00 each month.
Ask a working family making $51,000.00 a year
what an extra $157.00 means every month to them.
He knows the choices it gives families. Bowden
will work for a ‘flat tax’ first.
Spending needs to be cut as much as taxes.
Health. We need
to move money from government to individuals to
empower their own health choices. Bowden has
talked to Del. Phil Hamilton for years about
expanding Health Savings Accounts that Hamilton
champions. We need individual Health Savings
Accounts at the Federal level – now. Bowden
will work to cut regulations that cost.
Environment. Bowden
will complete Jo Ann Davis’s job to move the
Ghost Fleet and stop out of state trash.
Furthermore, Bowden has a dream, like the
Appalachian Trail, for bands of old growth forest
and trails criss-crossing the Commonwealth for
perpetuity. Bowden has the analytical skills to
know the difference between good science and junk
science in protecting The Bay. He will promote
the best policies – that work, not punish.
Like restoring the barrier sand bar –
destroyed by Isabel - protecting much of Hampton.
Jobs. Capital
creates jobs. Bowden will work to cut regulations
and taxes that cost businesses money and
Virginians jobs. He is pro-Right To Work and
pro-Union member and family. He is named for a
proud Union man. Bowden will support fair trade
regulations, not special interest favors. His
work in teams, and independently, to compete and
win hundreds of millions of dollars in highly
competitive bids will help him win in Congress.
He has developed new business – and jobs -
every year since 1994.
Social Security. Bowden
supports grandfathering folks close to and in the
current system, which is essentially a socialist
ponzi scheme, as “promises made, promises
kept”. No one will lose their Social
Security. Everyone younger person deserves the
Social Security that FDR promised –
individual accounts. Only, now more than ever,
the individual must control their account like a
401k retirement plan with additional insurance
protections for ups and downs in the stock market
and business cycle.
Homeland Security. Bowden
conducted a classified workshop on ‘Homeland
Security’ in 1997 for the Army After Next
Wargame. Insights there made 9-11 and events
which followed less of a surprise. He understands
the complex systems Congress needs to buy.
Foreign Affairs. Bowden
lived 11 years in 3 countries overseas. He has
traveled widely. His understanding helped him
conceive and close a consulting contract with the
Romanian Ministry of Defense in 2004. The
unclassified findings he wrote from the
classified “Most Likely China” workshop
he managed have proven true. Bowden supports
security and stability overseas as the
prerequisite for any nation choosing democracy or
not. His foreign affairs commentary have been
picked up worldwide.
Israel.
Bowden’s one short trip to Israel (2003) was
on Defense business. Bowden supports the defense
of Israel without fail – no matter what
array of enemies appears.
Energy. Bowden
knows that expansion in China and India will keep
the price of oil up. He supports increasing the
supply of energy – which reduces energy cost
to families.
Global Warming. Bowden
taught ’Research and Methodology for the
Social Science”. Consequently, he questions
the science of global warming as he does
macro-evolution.
2nd Amendment. Bowden
supports the rights of individual citizens to
bear arms.
HB 3202 – the 2007
Transportation Bill. Bowden
was the Vice-Chair of The Peninsula’s kNOw
Campaign in ’02. He helped the $45k of the
People beat the $2.2m of the powerful, special
interests. He opposed the re-packaged ’02
Tax Scam as HB3202 for Hampton Roads in writing -
as the non-working plan, the wrong taxes and the
unelected, unaccountable Regional Government the
voters had already rejected twice. Worse now,
this bad legislation has punishing excessive fees
for Virginia drivers – only.
Traditional Marriage. Bowden
was a city coordinator for the 2006 protection of
marriage amendment to the Virginia Constitution.
He wrote clear arguments for it. He will vote for
the Marriage Amendment as Jo Ann did, if it comes
up. Yet, he thinks Fred Thompson’s strategy
of Constitutional Federalism is a superior and
more achievable plan.
Armed Services Committee.
America‘s First District Congressman should
know what the Shipyard, Dahlgren, Langley AFB,
Ft. Eustis, Ft. A.P. Hill, Quantico, and Yorktown
mean to the current and future Armed Forces.
Bowden can speak chapter and verse on what needs
to be done at those locations to argue for the
resources from Congress to do them better –
today. Bowden’s perspectives broadened,
deepened and matured in a lifetime of Defense
work. He was first published in military journals
and a book on Defense studies – 25 years
ago. He understands the key Congressional choices
for future forces from the concepts he helped
produce. He will use insights from his Top Secret
Special Compartmentalized Information security
classification – nonstop for 23 years.
Veterans. Many
catastrophic casualties, who would have died in
other conflicts, are surviving. Their special
needs are huge and expensive. We need to provide
everything we owe these and other Vets as a
grateful, indebted, trustworthy Nation. Married
servicemen and women with children are the
majority across all Services. The stresses of
multiple combat tours create new pressures.
Married families’ needs are different from
the needs of the younger, single troops from
earlier wars. Bowden will serve the Vets.
Education. Bowden
went to public elementary, junior high and high
schools in Virginia. He and his wife invested all
three children in public schools through college.
His wife is a counselor in a public school in
York County that passed the SOLs from the very
first year. Bowden served on the Poquoson
Schools’ Long-Range Planning Committee. He
was a strong advocate for second language study K
through 12. Bowden supports excellence in
education. He supports excellence in education
for whatever choices parents make for their
children. He earned degrees for West Point,
Harvard and Columbia. Bowden was a teacher. He
taught at West Point and the College of William
and Mary. He will strive to move educational
oversight and programs from the Federal
bureaucrats to the Commonwealth. Virginia should
educate her children, not DC.
Transportation. Bowden
supports the Federal fair share of interstate
highways in Virginia. Federal regulations must be
balanced between safety and sanity. Bowden
opposed HB 3202 for imposing an unelected,
unaccountable, un-separated powers Regional
Government with a plan that doesn’t even
work to reduce congestion. Also, it imposes
unnecessary and unfair, punishing new taxes to
enrich political special interests. Bowden has
blogged and written the right transportation
solution for Hampton Roads.
Agriculture. 6 out of
8 generations of Bowden men were farmers since
his ancestor came to Isle of Wight County. He
supports farm insurance over farm subsidies.
Fishing. Bowden
knows there must be a balance in the Federal
involvement in Virginia’s fishing industry
and sporting enthusiasts. He will listen to
watermen and sports fishermen alike –
they’re his neighbors – to find the
balance.
Hunting. Bowden
supports hunters and good conservation of animal
resources.
Abortion and Euthanasia. Bowden
is pro-life. He supports Fred Thompson’s
calls for a return to Constitutional Federalism
which takes sanctity of life issues out of the
Federal Courts and puts them back in the state
legislatures where they belong.
King William Reservoir. Bowden
supports Jo Ann Davis’s position opposing
the King William Reservoir. The analysis
he’s seen doesn’t support it. He will
finish her efforts.
Virginia Indian Tribal
Federal Recognition. Bowden
opposes the bill for Federal recognition of six
Eastern Virginia tribes. The issue is the
emotional wound and insult to Eastern Virginia
Indian tribes from a racist Richmond bureaucrat
in the 1920s. Some recognition that heals and
honors our Indian neighbors is needed. But, this
bad bill has a racial blood census creating an
unfair no-tax sales advantage for small
businesses across whole counties of Virginia for
any person who is only one-eighth Indian and
whose family has assimilated as Virginians for
300 hundred years. There’s a better way.
Fort Monroe. Bowden
supports preserving this national treasure as a
national park, where citizens live, work and play
– while protecting what is important –
like the Presidio of California. Fort Monroe
shouldn’t become the piggy bank for local
special interests.
The War on CHRISTmas. Bowden
is experienced locally with what Jo Ann Davis
took on nationally. He helped parents and
teachers with no experience in political activism
restore the appropriate historical, cultural,
educational celebration of the official, legal
National and Virginia holiday – called
Christmas - when it was threatened.
The Wren Cross at William
& Mary. Bowden is the only
non-William and Mary graduate in the Save the
Wren Cross organization (as he was adjunct
faculty). Bowden will work for more diversity of
ideas and free speech in Higher Education.
Race. Two of
the three sins staining our flag of Virginia have
been cleaned. Slavery and segregation are over.
In all of human history no group every came up as
far, as fast, as high, with as much dignity and
courage over such hurdles as Black people in
America, 1865-1965. Racism is repugnant and cuts
in every direction. Special privileges of any
sort, based on race or religion, are wrong and
should be eliminated. Bowden did his part in the
Army to overcome its racial divides. He is for
justice for individuals, not groups.
Confederate Heritage. Bowden
walked the battlefields with his grandfather
Atticus. He grew up on oral family history with
stories of incredible courage, fidelity and
honor. He supports teaching complex and
informative history, honoring heritage, and
respect for all.
Family. The
Judeo-Christian culture’s family is
foundational institution of American
Civilization, the United States of America and
the Commonwealth of Virginia. Bowden will support
legislation that supports the family –
guided by Republican principles.
Changing Face of Virginia. There
are ‘Original’, ‘Old’, and
‘New’ Virginians. The recent tragedy at
Tech demonstrated how much we have in common. We
were all Hokies then. We’re all Virginians
now. We all will work together to achieve a
better future.
Virginia Values.
Virginia’s colleges, churches and government
have been bedrock institutions to transmit the
values that make Virginia – our Old Dominion
home.
Religion. Bowden
will oppose the cultural cleansing of
Christianity from public life. He understands the
center of the U.S. Culture War, which he call the
Second American Civil War (ACW II), is the attack
on American Judeo-Christian culture by Human
Secularists.
Term Limits. Bowden
supports term limits through fair, open, honest
elections. He has helped replace an incumbent
Republican Virginia delegate and senator with a
stronger Republican by winning open primaries.
Bowden would resign in 2014 – assuming his
good health and return to office by the People.
His strategic view is to help shape the aftermath
of two presidential elections – in the House
of Representatives – post 2008/12.
Jim Bowden.
James Atticus Bowden will be 57 on
November 18th. He was born in Lawton, OK in 1950.
He has been married to the former Katherine Kyle
of Beckley, WV for over 32 years. They have two
daughters, one son and one son-in-law, one
granddaughter and twin grandchildren in the womb.
They have resided in Poquoson since 1989.
Jim earned a competitive
Presidential appointment to the United States
Military Academy at West Point for the Class of
#146;72. He was commissioned as an Infantry
Officer. He served in five combat divisions as an
Airborne, Ranger-qualified officer and retired
after 20 years in service. He has been a defense
consultant ever since.
Jim earned a Masters of Public
Administration from the JFK School of Government,
Harvard University in 1981. He taught American
Government, Public Administration, and Research
and Methodology for the Social Science courses
for 3 years in the Department of Social Sciences,
United States Military Academy. He was an Army
officer graduate of the United States Marine
Corps Command and Staff College at Quantico, VA
in 1985. He earned a Masters in Philosophy of
Political Science at Columbia University in 1985.
Bowden taught one semester, “Politics of the
Cold War”, as adjunct faculty in the
Government Department at the College of William
and Mary in 1993.
Jim joined the Republican Party
the week he retired from active duty. He was the
chairman of the Poquoson City Committee
1997-2004. He was elected at competitive
conventions, like the one on November 10th, to
the State Central Committee, RPV in 2002 and
re-elected in 2004. Jim has contributed to 7
local elections where his side was outspent and
still won – contrary to all political wisdom
– when the odds were 2:1, 3:1, 5:1. 10:1 and
40:1. He has helped win every local election
where he had an active role.
He served as the First
Vice-Chairman of the First District until Russ
Moulton, the former Chairman, resigned. Russ
asked him to step up. Congresswoman Davis took
the unusual act of endorsing Bowden in public.
Jim was elected the Chairman, First District
Committee, RPV on September 21st. He resigned
this position to avoid the appearance of any
conflict of interest in this nomination process
to select our Republican candidate.
Jim has been involved in community
affairs in many aspects – often as a
grassroots activist.
Jim writes an op ed column for the
Yorktown Crier/Poquoson Post. He contributes to
the premier policy web site and ezine in
Virginia, ‘Bacon’s Rebellion’. He
was a local columnist at the request of the Daily
Press. He has a web site,
www.americancivilization.net and blogs at Deo
Vindice. His first novel, Rosetta 6.2, was
published in 2007. Many websites carry his op eds
regularly. National sites, like Newsmax.com and
PatriotPost.us carry him on occasion.
Jim is a member and Sunday School
teacher of Emmaus Baptist Church in Poquoson.
Congressional Service
Some candidates will invoke Ronald
Reagan almost like a chant. They aren’t
Ronald Reagan and neither is Jim Bowden. As much
as Virginians love Virginia – her people,
her land, her water, her history and her hope for
the future, Virginians can set the bar higher for
their Representative to be all he or she can be.
Bowden hopes to serve like a Newt
Gingrich and William Wilberforce – adopted
for our times.
Newt Gingrich was the Contract
with America strategic idea guy and tactical
leader for the capture of the majority in 1994
– saving the Nation from far more damage
under the Clintons.
William Wilberforce was persuaded
by his Christian faith to serve tirelessly the
righteous cause of ending slavery in the British
Empire – against all odds and never quitting
– until ‘he’ became the
‘they’ that won the victory.
Bowden will speak the truth to
power in one minute speeches on the floor of the
House of Representatives.
If a Republican President is
elected in 2008 and 2012 Bowden will push the
agenda of a ‘Munificent’ Destiny for
Virginia and America.
Jim Bowden knows he won’ be
Reagan, Gingrich or Wilberforce. Jim Bowden will
be just Jim Bowden. And like Jo Ann Davis, Jim
Bowden will be your public servant.
If you
want to help Jim earn the Republican nomination
for Congress on November 10th, please send an
email with your name, address, best telephone and
email to jatticus1@yahoo.com
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