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<\/a><\/p>\nby NEIL MUNRO
\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n
Danica\u00a0Roem, a man living as a woman, got\u00a010,800 votes<\/a>\u00a0in Manassas Park City and Prince William County after spending more than\u00a0$600,000 in direct donations \u2014 mostly from transgender political groups \u2014 and getting plenty of support from local media. Thirteen-term Marshall\u2019s campaign was\u00a0largely ignored<\/a>\u00a0by business donors, such as the local Chamber of Commerce. The lack of funding made it difficult for Marshall to highlight Roem\u2019s radical agenda, which includes pushing the transgender ideology in kindergartens.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is what happens when the radical transgender lobby pours more than $600,000 into a small state race and conservative donors largely sit the race out,\u201d said\u00a0Terry Schilling, the executive director of the American Principles Project. He continued:<\/p>\n Democrats cruise to victory and claim a mandate on an issue they were too afraid to outwardly campaign on. Delegate Marshall ran an incredible race and did the best he could, but ultimately, with the news media cheering hard for Danica Roem and the transgender lobby purchasing a small state race for the absurd price of $60 per vote, defeat was inevitable.<\/p>\n Conservatives will continue to lose ground to the radical transgender lobby until they learn that the only way to stop the bleeding is to engage in politics. As Frank Cannon and Maggie Gallagher wrote today at First Things,\u00a0culture is downstream of politics<\/a>. When you win elections, you send a powerful signal that drives change in the culture. The transgender lobby, following the lead of the gay rights movement, knows this, which is why they spent so much money on a seemingly inconsequential state race nobody cared about.<\/p>\n The real story here is a story of political malpractice as the conservative movement failed to defend one of its best allies in Bob Marshall. When will conservatives wake up and fight the obvious fights?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Marshall was targeted partly because he opposed the transgender ideology, and called for legislation that would allow women to exclude men who say they are women from women\u2019s\u00a0public bathrooms and showers.<\/p>\n Advocates for the transgender ideology celebrated Roem\u2019s win, which marks the first time person who claims to have switched sex has won a statehouse election in the United States.<\/p>\n BREAKING: Danica Roem (@pwcdanica<\/a>) makes history as #Virginia<\/a>\u2019s first out #transgender<\/a> public official! #VaPol<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/9ggC9kWKa7<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/5NLy6qtxnL<\/a><\/p>\n — Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) November 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n