On March 17th, the House voted 413-12 to award congressional gold medals, Congress’s “highest expression of national appreciation”, to all members of the Capitol police force. Bob Good, VA-05 voted against this bipartisan legislation.
Denial seems to be Bob Good’s middle name. Not only does he deny that there was an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th, he also doesn’t believe that there’s a pandemic. When he spoke at Freedom Plaza on December 12th, he encouraged the maskless crowd proclaiming that this is a phony pandemic despite the deaths of more than 300 people in VA-05, his own district. While Good denies the seriousness of the covid 19 pandemic, his Democratic opponent, Cameron Webb, continues to treat covid-19 patients at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
Last week, Good voted against two immigration bills, one that would provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and the other to allow farmworkers and their families to earn legal status in the country if they continued to work in the agricultural sector — a group that comprises about half the nation’s agricultural workers. Agriculture is Virginia’s largest private industry. Imagine where the Virginia economy would be without the 6000 immigrant farmworkers who come to Virginia each year to harvest its crops. But it’s not an issue for Bob Good, being more focused on Trump’s border wall. "All we have to do is finish the (border) wall and end catch and release, which President Trump stopped," Good said, with the belief that Trump’s border wall would continue under President Biden. Or just the mental denial that Trump lost the election last November.
Good also voted against the Violence Against extending the Violence Against Women Act because of course he’s in denial that domestic abuse, stalking, and dating violence are a problem. I guess not for him since he’s a white male.
Bob Good also seems to have a personal problem denying his assets. Initially he reported having no assets and no unearned income. It seems he “overlooked” financial assets of up to 1.6 million, of retirement savings plans and IRA investments. Good said on Monday that the campaign “may have made a mistake” in their financial disclosure. Hey, we all make mistakes. Most of us haven’t made the mistake of failing to report 1.6 million required by law under the Ethics and Government Act.