By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives April 14, 2016
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“Last summer, Mast, who medically retired as a staff sergeant, launched his quest to represent Florida in its 18th Congressional District. The incumbent, Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, is running for the Senate, leaving a wide-open contest for the seat. (Army Times, Oct 26, 2015) “Mast, who is running as a Republican, faces a primary challenge against five other candidates.Challenges of even the most serious kind never held Brian Mast back. “I’m in the throes of a heated primary,” he said. “This race that I’m in is one of the most likely pickup seats in the entire country. That’s what makes it such a heated race.” To see Brian Mast run is to want to run the race with him, even if you’re only watching on YouTube on a computer chair, from thousands of miles away in another country.
“Almost every single day, to include the weekends, I’m booked almost from when I wake up in the morning until I go to bed.”Other primary candidates are running on rhetoric and promises that somehow never get fulfilled. A patriot with his boots on the ground in Afghanistan, the army vet remains a patriot in civilian life. After the slaughter of five Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by a 24-year-old radicalized Islamist named Muhammed Youssef Abdulazeez, this is what Mast posted on his Facebook page:
“Americans need to come to the realization and get past the point of speculating about whether or not Islamists groups like ISIS, who have called for attacks in the United States, will begin to wage war within our cities and towns. The United States is radical Islam’s new battlefield.”The candidate we hope and pray gets to represent Florida’s 18th Congressional District runs on inspiration and has become a signature for the idiom that all is never lost so long as you’re still in there trying.
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Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.