Storrs: Setting the Record Straight

By Craig Storrs
Central Regional Vice-Chairman, 6th Congressional District

I would have preferred to let the issue alone rather than dig down into the mud; however, outright lies cannot be left unchallenged.

Steve Troxel, one of the 6th District State Central Committee members – and someone I used to consider a close friend until he sided with Scott Sayre and Matt Tederick when they attempted to intimidate and censor me – decided to deride a statement I made concerning the 2020 6th District Biennial Convention. It’s certainly his prerogative to disagree with me, but it’s not his prerogative to lie about it.

As I explained in my social media post, I stated that the majority of the voting members of the Sixth District Committee were disenfranchising gun owners with their decision to place the convention in a school, a gun free zone.

I also explained, in explicitly clear words, that my motion to move the convention to Amherst County High School had a two-pronged motive: 1) to keep the convention central to the district; and (most importantly), 2) to prove that the majority wouldn’t give one flying crap about the minority and merely obstruct, ram their agenda through, and then call the minority hypocrites for calling them out.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Sounds just like Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and Nancy Pelosi during the impeachment hearings. I’ll let Steve Troxel, Ken Adams, and Anne Fitzgerald jockey for who is who in this analogy.

For the record, I never, not once, identified any member of the majority as being anti-gun … I identified THE MAJORITY (which is 50 percent + one). If Mr. Troxel feels that guilty about the accusation, maybe he should reevaluate his position.

I also can have meaningful conversations with several people who routinely vote against me including Jeff Adams (SCC), Randy Gilbert (Shenandoah County chairman), occasionally John Massoud (Vice-Chair), and Nate Boyer (SCC/Bedford Co. Chair). My statement was not a disparagement on anyone in particular but, rather, the collective mentality.

Mr. Troxel, Mrs. Fitzgerald, etc., dismissed the concealed carry concerns out of hand – like most Democrats in Richmond. Maybe they can’t read public policy opinion – or maybe they just don’t care … my bet is on the latter.

Mr. Troxel proved himself to be the hypocrite. He was elected by riding on the backs of college students, admittedly myself being one of them (a decision I now deeply regret). He has willingly chosen to disenfranchise them by placing the convention in the northern reaches of the district and on a date that is well after the spring semester ends.

“They’ll just have to find a way back,” and, “When I was in college, I found a way to make it,” were the responses.

This is par for the course for Mr. Troxel who just wants college students to do the grunt work, get a pat on the head, and stick their noses back in a book rather than influence politics and policy.

Maybe members of the committee had plenty of access to the Bank of Mom and Dad – but for college students like me, summer meant I was back home and not traveling because I couldn’t afford my own car. So much for the “conservative” wing of the party caring for the middle and lower class.

I thank God everyday that Steve Troxel, Anne Fitzgerald, Ken Adams, and very few others on the District Committee aren’t in a position to affect public policy. They’re just in a position to try to rig it so that the decision to put someone there who can, lies with them and only them.

I’m fighting for inclusivity, not exclusivity. I can’t say the same for them.

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