{"id":1730491,"date":"2022-11-08T18:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T23:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730491"},"modified":"2022-11-08T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T23:17:33","slug":"in-loudoun-county-gop-voters-cite-inflation-and-schools-while-democrats-worry-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-loudoun-county-gop-voters-cite-inflation-and-schools-while-democrats-worry-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"In Loudoun County, GOP Voters Cite Inflation And Schools While Democrats Worry For \u2018Democracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-loudoun-county-gop-voters-cite-inflation-and-schools-while-democrats-worry-for-democracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. \u2014 In the county where concerned parents helped land Gov. Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia governor\u2019s mansion, parental rights in education as well as inflation continue to be central concerns for GOP voters, while Democrats tend to cite fears about Donald Trump and the \u201cerosion of democracy\u201d and a desire for \u201cmoderation\u201d as their top issues. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what voters told The Federalist as they left the polls. <\/p>\n<p> Inflation, Education Top GOP Concerns <\/p>\n<p>Loudoun County residents Tina and Stuart Nokes own a painting business and used to have kids in Loudoun County Public Schools. They voted for Republican Hung Cao for his \u201cprior military experience\u201d and because he \u201csupports parental involvement in the schools, which has been a big issue here in Loudoun County,\u201d Tina told The Federalist. <\/p>\n<p>Tina said she \u201cdefinitely, big time\u201d blames the Biden administration for the economic woes they\u2019ve observed. Their leads are down while their material prices are rising. \u201cWe had four price increases during Covid,\u201d she said. \u201cAs a business, we don\u2019t raise our prices so \u2018hey, we make more money!\u2019 We raise our prices so we can keep up with inflation for our workers, so we can continue to pay our bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose price increases get passed on, and to call companies greedy for raising prices is an idiotic thing,\u201d Stuart added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would have had inflation anyways, but the excessive government spending that the administration brought in, they [Trump and Biden] both created potential for inflation, but when they just continued the excessive spending that created more inflation,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then to stop the whole petrochemical industry has been a terrible, terrible move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another voter, Sandra Huff, also cited education and the economy as central problems. \u201cMy son graduated years ago, and the schools were great here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to be a Democrat, a hard Democrat,\u201d Huff said, noting family members who were former Democrat state senators. She switched to the Republican Party six years ago because \u201cthe Democrats are not what they used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did follow [what happened in Loudoun County schools last year] because I have grandkids,\u201d she told The Federalist, referring to the battle between parents and the Loudoun County School Board over school closures, radical left-wing concepts taught in taxpayer-funded schools, and a scandal involving the school board\u2019s coverup of the rape of a female student by a 15-year-old boy wearing a skirt in the girls\u2019 bathroom. \u201cMy daughter is teaching her kids at home now. She started during Covid, and then she did not put them back in the schools.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt upset me a lot when they said they weren\u2019t going to teach any of the advanced math classes,\u201d Huff added. \u201cMy kids have always been in all advanced everything, I think it\u2019s good for all the kids. I don\u2019t understand why we have to bring the standards down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also cited schools pushing critical race theory and the transgender agenda as problems. \u201cThe schools should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The schools should not be telling the parents how to raise their children,&#8217; said former Democrat Sandra Huff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1730494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}