U.S. Rep. Bob Good (VA-05), whose representation includes Appomattox County, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday morning to launch the opening of his campaign office on Lynchburg Highway, Lynchburg.

He had announced his campaign for re-election as the Republican nominee for his seat in Congress on Jan. 3.

In his remarks delivered prior to the ribbon-cutting itself, Good thanked those who came to the event as his dedicated supporters. He credited them with understanding the two political parties’ vastly different philosophies and values.

The first-term congressman pointed out that in Virginia, conservatives and Republican voters finally turned out in sufficient numbers to win last November’s commonwealth-wide elections. He stated that too often — such as in recent elections in New Jersey or Georgia — too many Republicans did not vote, causing the conservatives to lose seats in Congress. He noted that voter turnout tends to be higher in “blue” Democrat-dominant areas than in “red” Republican-dominant areas.

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