U.S. Senate candidate Bishop E.W. Jackson brought his “Fix Washington Now” tour to Roanoke last week, to speak before an enthusiastic crowd of local Republicans and Tea Party members, waving his “Jackson Ax” around. As always when he speaks, his first sentence is, “I am not an African American, I am an American.” Jackson speaks harshly of President Obama, calling him the “worst president ever, red, white or blue.”
He feels he is in the best position to beat Tim Kaine and “expose him for the wide eyed liberal that he is. He is going to try and hang the race card around the neck of the Republican party in this general election.” He hopes to be the one standing next to Kaine in a debate so he can look him in the eye and say, “Don’t you dare try it, the Republican party stands for opportunity for all people, no matter who they are, we don’t care what color the President is.”
Jackson feels strongly that all qualified candidates should appear on the ballot, so he is passing around his competitors petitions to be signed, along with his own. His message to Washington is, “Get it straight, we don’t work for you, you work for us.” He said if he were in office now, he would not have voted for this last debt increase, because enough is enough.
He feels called to run for the Senate, not because he wants a title or fame, but to help and encourage people. He knows the country is in trouble and says it cannot do business as usual. He would tell Mitch McConnell, “I am not going along to get along; that is not why Virginia sent me here. If it makes you mad, just get mad. Get with the program and stop this spending and stop bankrupting our country.” He knows the politicians don’t like his stance, but feels the general public does.
He carries around his “Jackson Ax” to remind people of something Obama once said: “We don’t need to take an ax to the budget, what we need to do is take a scalpel.” Obviously, Jackson disagrees, and intends to fix Washington with the symbolic ax.
He states that, “Obama has a counterfeit vision of who we are as a nation. He wants us to be a dependent nation of central planning by the federal government; he wants us to be a nation of collectivism. He wants us to be a nation where you cannot even screw a light bulb into your light socket without his permission and telling you what kind of light bulb to screw in there.”
Jackson believes in private property rights, keeping more of your wages, individualism, freedom, gun rights, and that all men are created equal with God given rights. He intends to “serve an eviction notice on the current resident of the White House and stop this apologizing for our country.”
E.W. Jackson served in the Marine Corps, graduated from Harvard Law School and studied at Harvard Divinity School. He practiced law for 15 years before devoting himself to full-time ministry. He is the founder of the Exodus Faith Ministries, a non-denominational church in Chesapeake and is the founder of a grass-roots organization dedicated to restoring America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and values. He has been married to his wife for forty years and has three children.
To learn more, visit his website: www.jacksonforvirginia.org.