Republican Candidate Challenges Jim ‘Worst Congressman’ Moran

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What makes retired Army colonel and Iraq war veteran Patrick Murray believe he can win over the voters of Virginia’s Eighth Congressional District? After all, these are the same voters who have sent incumbent Democrat Jim Moran to Congress ten times before.

“After twenty years, people are tired with government waste and spending,” Murray, the Republican candidate, told THE WEEKLY STANDARD at a fundraiser in Alexandria last night. “They’re tired of career politicians.”

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