If you go to lunch with a friend, and he orders beef on weck, fries with gravy and a piece of lemon pie, every time, and then one day when the waitress comes he’s in the bathroom and asks what he wants, you order him beef on weck, fries with gravy and a piece of lemon pie – right?
And you know that when he gets back and sits down and they put his food in front of him he’s going to be happy.
On that same principle, let me answer the question: Yes, David Bellavia is running for Congress.
In 2020, he will seek the Republican nomination in the 27th District of New York, and he will run in and win the general election.
There is no mystery. There is no question. There is no uncertainty.
And people who are pretending otherwise are doing so as a cover for their own political ambitions and machinations.
Whether it’s the rich guy or the lady who’s friends with the Conservative Party chairman or the various state legislators.
Bellavia’s in, and they need to get out.
Bellavia is the candidate, and this is his platform: We’re all Americans.
Yes, he’s what most people would call a conservative. He’s Constitution all day every day. But the only team he’s on is the one to which we all belong – the United States of America. If elected, he will fight non-stop for the interests of everyone in the district. Not just one group or the other, this brand or that – everyone.
This is a man who went to war with a hodge podge of personalities, beliefs and philosophies which were all sacred to him because they were held by fellow soldiers whom he loved. The same deal goes for serving in the House of Representatives. The people of the 27thwill be his comrades, and their priorities will be his priorities. That includes everybody. All across the political and social spectrum.
With Bellavia, there is no us and them, it’s only us. His job will be to represent the district, not just one party in the district or one lifestyle or philosophy. His battlefield ethic of “leave no man behind” came home with him, and applies to his neighbors and constituents today – everybody has a place at the Bellavia table.
He wears a medal for the whole nation, and he will do his duty for the whole nation.
And he will not flinch from that duty, which the political backstabbers should remember.
In his book, recounting the day to which warriors still look for inspiration, he talks about a moment in which he hesitated. As he and others were clearing the houses assigned to them, at a certain point enemy combatants broke contact with Bellavia and withdrew.
And he did not pursue them.
Pages of his book recount the angst and upset that created for him, and how it motivated him to reengage them and their jihadi comrades in a devastating one-against-the-world assault.
There’s a lesson there. David Bellavia knows the bitter taste of an opportunity unseized, of an initiative surrendered, of an open door not run through.
And now he stands at a similar juncture. Fate and circumstance have placed before him what some would see as an opportunity, but which he will recognize as a duty. This is not David Bellavia’s chance to run for Congress, this is David Bellavia’s obligation to run for Congress.
With his recent honor, he has armored up – not for a political campaign, but for the service that campaign will open to him. The issue of political gamesmanship among the Republicans of the 27thDistrict is of temporary significance, the point of David Bellavia is that he has been prepared to render significant and essential service to the Republic and to the people whose freedom it secures and safeguards.
He hears the bugle, he will answer its call.
David Bellavia is running for Congress.
He has never once shirked his patriotic duty, and he is not about to start now. The people of the 27thneed not fear, Sergeant Bell has got their back.
And next year he hopes to have their vote.