CommUNITY church pastor and former candidate for the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors Thomas McCracken explains to WFIR why he has filed a defamation lawsuit over an incident at an August County School Board meeting. McCracken says he did not speak, but was there in support of Governor Youngkin's new model policies for trans students.
CommUNITY Church pastor Thomas McCracken says his decision to drop an independent campaign for the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors seat in the Catawba district has to do with the "old guard" Republican party closing ranks around incumbent Martha Hooker. In June McCracken dropped his GOP primary bid for Hooker's seat, then announced the independent
Update: Trish White-Boyd will win her race for the Democratic nomination for the District 4 State Senate seat, with 94% of the vote counted (as of 9:50pm) ahead of fellow Roanoke City Council member Luke Priddy (by 19%) and DeAnthony Pierce. White-Boyd will face off against Republican State Senator David Suetterlein in this new district
Thomas McCracken, the pastor at CommUNITY Church in Salem and a former school board member, has formally announced his bid for the Republican nomination for the Catawba seat on the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors. Martha Hooker is the Republican two-term incumbent. School construction projects, creating more new jobs in the county and more public