In mid-August, Vision Times sat down with Kristin Hoffman, who is running to represent Virginia’s District 6 in the House of Delegates in the upcoming Nov. 4 election.
Hoffman, a Republican, has lived in Vienna, Virginia, for more than 25 years with her husband—a retired Army officer—and their two sons, who attended Fairfax County public schools and graduated from James Madison High School.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of Business.
Her career, which spanned 30 years, included working in technology and finance as a program manager specializing in new product launches and initiatives.
“Kristin Hoffman is committed to returning Fairfax County to a welcoming, competitive, and desirable place to live that attracts families, businesses, and talent from all over the world with its great schools and low crime rates,” reads her campaign website.
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She says that if elected she would focus her efforts on cutting taxes, fixing the school system and making the communities she represents safer.
“First of all I would like to eliminate the car tax,” Hoffman told Vision Times. “That is a tax that is the highest in the nation, of any state, and also impacts our families and impacts our small businesses that need cars in order to operate.”
On education, Hoffman says, “I would like to fix our school scores that are declining and we need to help our teachers teach the subjects that they want to teach, or that they were trained to teach, not having them spend time on all different kinds of training instead of in the classroom.”
She says she wants the education budget to be focused on children and not administrators. “We are now top-heavy with administrators and we need to have teachers supported,” Hoffman said.
Regarding safer communities she acknowledged the increase in criminal activity in Fairfax County calling it “unacceptable.”
“Our police officers have been stripped of some of their probable cause laws that allow them to ask questions of people they feel might be a little bit shady,” Hoffman explained. “We have also stripped away some of our prison terms where we have an early release for violent offenders and they have committed a number of crimes. So, we need to provide our police officers with the tools that they need to be able to do our jobs because it’s all interrelated.”
She added, “We don’t have safe communities, we don’t have people who feel safe, we don’t feel safe sending our kids to school, we don’t feel safe in our businesses. We need to fix that,” Hoffman said.
Communist China’s influence in the region
On Aug. 10, the Asian Community Service Center (ACSC) hosted a forum in Fairfax County where community leaders spoke about Chinese Communist Party (CCP) transnational oppression as well as forced labor on the Mainland, among other things.
When asked how she would address these issues Hoffman replied,”That’s a very complicated question, but I think Glenn, our Governor Glenn Youngkin, has gone a long way to kickstarting some solutions to that problem.”
She went on to explain that, while the border is now more secure under the current federal administration, it is also important to address the origins of products from China, how they are manufactured, and the potential risks they may pose to Americans.
As an example she referenced solar panels manufactured in China that have a “kill switch,” and could be exploited by communist authorities in China should a circumstance arise.
“If we were in trouble, the Chinese government could come in and shut off some of our electricity. We don’t need that at all,” she said.
She then argued for strategic tariffs to be placed on certain Chinese goods and that Americans need to know what they are buying and how the products were manufactured.
“We recognize that cheap labor is being used to produce those goods… Sometimes there is a price that is just too good to be true, and we need to not purchase those types of products,” she argued.
At another ACSC event on Aug. 31, Hoffman told the audience, “I believe the 1st Amendment, the one that guarantees freedom of religion, speech and assembly, is one of the Constitution’s most important amendments, as this is the amendment that protects our human rights,” adding that, “I’m also very sadly aware of the CCP’s infiltration of the United States, as well as the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and the Uyghurs, among others.”
She described the forced slave labor in China and the human trafficking occurring there as “just a horror,” and explained that bipartisan efforts to address these issues have included a letter condemning the CCP for forced organ harvesting and other human rights violations.
Voters in Virginia can participate in the general election for the House of Delegates and other offices on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Eligible residents must be registered to vote by Oct. 14. Early in-person voting will begin on Sept. 19 at designated locations across the state.
Voters can also request an absentee ballot if they are unable to vote in person. For more information on registration, polling places, and absentee voting, visit the Virginia Department of Elections website.
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