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“It sounds nutty, but I love this,” Katzen laughed as the searing afternoon sun lowered over the mountain, putting the close on another campaign day that the candidate said was typical.
The ordinary day began in Warrenton, where Katzen also went door-to-door, shaking hands and looking for votes in what is usually seen as Democratic turf.
His brief spiel is essentially the same: “I want to represent you in Richmond so that I can fight to keep taxes down, fight to keep money in your back pocket,” he tells potential voters.
The $19 million lottery board building, approved by the Democratically-controlled General Assembly in February, makes a convenient target, and Katzen takes advantage of it at nearly every opportunity. . “By continuing to tax and spend we’re doing exactly the opposite of what is going to encourage a growing economy,” he said between houses.
“If you know that more and more of your money is going to be taken away from you. I’m not certain that too many companies are going to want to work ... harder in order to give the government their money.”
The candidate frequently blends in a tailored secondary message with his tax and spend opposition during the day’s many brief encounters — a message about jobs in the poorer sections he visits, another about fighting crime delivered in Flint Hill, a third about supporting a summer camp program, whose success in Fauquier, he thinks, can be emulated elsewhere.
At every stop there is an invitation to call him — to get something pff your chest, to complain, to offer ideas and suggestions. “I feel, to a
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