Dem Congressional Candidate Asks Why Military Service Makes Some Qualified to Run for Office

‘So tell me why the sacrifices and the services that you have provided for this country make you capable of solving issues?’

Dem Congressional Candidate Asks Why Military Service Makes Some Qualified to Run for Office (The Washington Free Beacon)

Randy Perkins, a Democrat running for Congress in Florida’s 18th district, berated his Republican opponent, Brian Mast, on Monday for claiming that his military service qualifies him to serve in Congress.

“So tell me why the sacrifices and the services that you have provided for this country make you capable of solving issues?” Perkins asked Mast, a double-amputee veteran of the war in Afghanistan, at a recent candidate forum. Perkins then listed off numerous issues and asked Mast how he would fix them.

“Well, it’s what’s involved in that service that makes me very capable of solving any number of those issues,” Mast responded.

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