Campaigning Banned in Stafford County?

You figure this one out. . .

Joshua Morris, treasurer of the Rothfeld for Senate campaign and president of the Mary Washington College Young Republicans, and Herbert Lux Jr., director of Rothfeld’s grassroots activity, filed a federal suit in Alexandria last week charging that the county ordinance violates their First Amendment rights to free speech. The ordinance prohibits the placing of handbills on motor vehicles or any other private property without the owner’s permission.

It also forbids handing out fliers on the sidewalk in a manner that interferes with pedestrians, and it bars people from entering private property to put handbills there.

The lawsuit names each county supervisor individually, as well as Sheriff Charles Jett, County Attorney Alda White, and Commonwealth’s Attorney Daniel Chichester, whose brother, Sen. John Chichester, is Rothfeld’s opponent in the GOP primary election on June 10.