EXCLUSIVE: A veteran Air Power pilot and brigadier basic introduced Tuesday he was launching a campaign for Congress as a result of the second for the nation was “too important” to go away to profession politicians.
Republican and former Brigadier Basic Chris “Mookie” Walker, who served 4 a long time within the U.S. Air Power as a pilot, and later because the commander of the West Virginia Air Nationwide Guard, instructed Fox Information Digital he is “not done fighting” for the folks of his state, and that he deliberate to carry leaders’ “feet to the fire” because the consultant of his state’s 2nd Congressional District.
“I learned some things while I was deployed overseas. America is only safe when we’re strong. I’ve seen it come from every angle. Current senior leaders, sorry to say, have weakened us,” Walker stated when requested why he determined to leap into the race.
“I’m not done fighting for West Virginia. There are a lot of things that I wanted to do as a general in the Air Force, but I was not permitted to because of the politics. And I said, OK, when I retire, I’m not going to be just some old man shaking my fist on the porch about these things. I’m gonna get in there and fight for them,” he stated.
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Former Air Force Brigadier General and pilot Chris “Mookie” Walker is launching a marketing campaign to characterize West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional district. (Chris Walker)
Walker grew up in New York Metropolis to what he described as “strict Jamaican parents,” who he stated instilled the values of exhausting work and patriotism that in the end led him to the U.S. Air Power Academy, the place he was commissioned as an Air Power officer.
“I spent 40 years in uniform, deployed to nearly every continent, seeing all sorts of cultures, seeing all sorts of people, seeing how the world really works,” he stated whereas describing his near-countless abroad experiences that led him to locations just like the Center East, Africa, Japan, Europe and even flying in hurricanes, which he known as “an insane thing to do.”
Walker described his time on the Pentagon as what drove him to need to be ready to enact true change.
Former Air Force Brigadier General and pilot Chris “Mookie” Walker is launching a campaign to represent West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional district. (Chris Walker)
“Anybody who goes to the Pentagon and stated they cherished it, they’re mendacity to you. It’s a grind, and it is filled with politics, which it shouldn’t be,” he stated. “The politics are for the politicians and for the civilian side. But that being said, I learned how to maneuver my way through the upper echelons of the Air Force and the DoD.”
“That’s when I said, OK, a lot of the things that are detracting from our greatness as a country, there’s nothing I can do about it in uniform. And that started getting me in the mindset that I have to get into politics in order to change things,” he stated. “As a member of the United States House of Representatives, I actually will be able to affect that positively by holding the DoD leaders’ feet to the fire.”
Walker stated his high precedence if elected to Congress in November can be to handle the border disaster, which he stated was accountable for American streets being flooded with medicine and crime, and the left’s “indoctrination” of kids in faculties.
“Down in kindergarten and elementary school and junior high, they’re trying to get certain concepts into the minds of these kids. And you know what I’m talking about,” he stated. After I was rising up … I had no thought whether or not my academics have been married or not or who they have been married to. So I do not see why that’s so necessary to inform the children.”
Former Air Force Brigadier General and pilot Chris “Mookie” Walker is launching a campaign to represent West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional district. (Chris Walker)
“These are the issues which might be bothering me. And I believe, a minimum of in West Virginia, we want a self-made warrior defending our West Virginian values for our subsequent technology. And so they want any individual who’s on the market profitable battles, not merely casting votes,” he said.
Walker joins a crowded Republican primary field that includes Riley Moore, West Virginia’s current state treasurer.
“Look, I respect Riley Moore. I respect what he is finished in state authorities because the state treasurer, however in my view, and lots of people’s opinions, dynasties do not work. Simply because his grandfather was a former governor does not make him greatest certified,” he stated.
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“I believe that this second is simply too necessary to ship one other profession politician to Washington, D.C. Once more, I am a pugilist. For all of the issues which might be necessary to West Virginians, I would be the thorn within the facet of the left, whereas others are, I believe, going to only be there meekly casting votes,” he added.
West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District is considered a safe Republican seat. It is currently represented by Republican Rep. Alex Mooney, who is running for Senate. The GOP primary is scheduled for May 14.
