Ben Cline to appear at ‘Citizen’s Rally’ to rally opposition to redistricting

Ben Cline is appearing at a self-styled “Citizen’s Rally” – presumably more than one citizen will be allowed in – on Saturday at 2 p.m. at Lord Botetourt High School.

I’m guessing Cline will want to use the event to whip up support for his push to save his job by blocking the congressional redistricting effort being led by Virginia Democrats.

Would be a shame to see people on the other side who want the state’s congressional districts redrawn to counter efforts by the Trump regime to boost their numbers in MAGA-led states take over Cline’s little shindig here.

Hint, hint.

The “Citizen’s Rally” is being promoted on the Facebook page of something called Hometown Ops, whose leader is a guy named Lars Wiechmann, a low-level Republican operative.

Wiechmann noted in a post promoting the rally that “(w)e need a huge turnout, particularly from folks in the 5th, 6th, and 9th Congressional districts.”

The poster advertises that the rally will have a second speaker, an attorney and former state delegate named Tim Anderson, who is known, among other things, for filing a lawsuit in 2022 attempting to prevent bookstores from selling two books, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas and Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, to anyone under 16 years of age, because he believes the content of the books violates state obscenity laws.

The suit was dismissed, as the voters in Virginia Beach dismissed Anderson, who lost his 2025 bid for the House of Delegates to Democrat Michael Feggans by 15 points.

Since being landslided, Anderson has turned his attention to the redistricting referendum, specifically, trying to muddy the issue for voters to get it defeated, to protect the interests of the likes of Cline, who is a lame duck in a 10-1 Virginia.

Ben Cline doesn’t make himself available for face-to-face events with voters; this might be your chance to tell ol’ Bennie what’s what.