Edd Houck – The Common Sense Moderate

I nearly choked on a bagel this morning when I read this:

Calling on 17th District voters to choose a moderate they know over an ideologue they don’t, Sen. Edd Houck yesterday made it official that he’s running for an sixth term in the state Senate.

Houck, who was first elected to the Senate in 1983, said he thinks voters will favor him, as a moderate, over Republican challenger Robert Stuber, a conservative.

“I don’t think that the citizens of the 17th District want a senator who is prone to the ideological extremes of the far left or the far right,” said Houck, who lives in Spotsylvania County.

Moderate? As in the tax-hiking, pro-abort, FOIA-killing kind of moderate? The rest of the article moves along Houck’s line of thought that our taxes are low compared to other places such as. . . I dunno, like Sweden or China for instance. . .

If this is how Edd is going to run his campaign, I have a feeling that a lot of other 17th District voters are going to choke on plenty of bagels ’til November.