Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Last year, I learned the hard way that ordinary citizens can have their Constitutional rights attacked at any time and without any warning. My rights—and by extension the rights of every citizen of the Commonwealth—were successfully defended by an exceptional attorney named Ken Gibson. Ken Gibson is now a candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates (to replace my good friend Harvey Morgan, who’s retiring) and it is my privilege to recommend him as the very best candidate to represent the Middle Peninsula in the General Assembly. Here’s why:

In 2008 as today, I am a member of the "Gloucester 40" who circulated a petition to oust certain local ‘leaders.’ The ‘leaders’ hit back hard, hiring a high-powered Richmond law firm and a former attorney general. They started by serving me with a subpoena demanding that I surrender nearly all of my personal records, including my computer, my notes, my written...