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By JEFF NELSON
ArCont Publication* State Writer
Ray Vickery, newly tapped Democratic candidate for the 10th Congressional District, says he will be an agent for change if elected over incumbent U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf in November.
“There is too much being done in Congress that is ‘what is good for me today?”’ Vickery said. The candidate discussed his emerging campaign and what he thinks the issues will be during a meeting last week with the editors of the Times-Dertwcrat and other ArCom Newspapers.
The 50-year-old Vienna resident will face Wolf, a six-term GOP incumbent. Vickery announced his candidacy with little fanfare earlier this month at the Virginia Democratic convention in Roanoke and acknowleged that he was all but drafted to the race by 10th District party luminaries.
Vickery is a lawyer who represents high-tech firms in the region and abroad. He also is a former three-term member of the state House of Delegates, leaving political office in 1980 after an unsuccessful bid for 33rd District Sen. Charles Waddell’s Virginia Senate seat in a party primary.
Vickery positioned himself as an “agent for change” at a time when Congress needs change.
Vickery named as a top priority the establishment of a balanced federal budget. He blamed a lack of political leadership by the president and the Congress as reasons for the current federal practice of spending $400 billion more than is taken in.
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