David Goosman

[2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement] Roster verified: Spotsylvania County BoS, Berkeley District, sworn Jan 2026, term ends Dec 2029, NOT on Nov 2026 ballot. PARTY VERIFIED R via campaign domain goosmangop.org + Facebook /GoosmanGOP/ + VPAP candidate page + Fredericksburg Free Press election coverage; Spotsy BoS races appear without party labels on the VA ballot but his GOP self-identification is unambiguous. RELIGION: deacon, treasurer, and music director at Calvary Baptist Church (independent Baptist, Spotsylvania, pastored by Justin Spradlin); FXBG Advance candidate questionnaire confirms Calvary Baptist membership and described lay-leadership roles. EDUCATION: BS Computer Science & Engineering U Texas Arlington + MS IT UMUC. BACKGROUND: 21-yr USAF officer/engineer + DoD civilian engineer at Quantico (retired Dec 2024), wife Barbara, 5 kids, 8 grandkids, American Legion 320. FACTION: anchored the new post-Nov-2025 anti-data-center BoS majority (Hayes-Lee Hill, Goosman, Yakabouski, Lane) — voted with Hayes for Vice Chair Mullins on Jan 13 2026 (6-0 with Mullins abstaining; Frazier perturbed at being passed over) and voted with the 4-3 majority Feb 2026 to require Special Use Permits for data centers. HARD TRUE christian_liberty q0 (HIGH BAR cleared): lay-leadership roles at Calvary Baptist (deacon + treasurer + music director) materially exceed bare-membership; deacon-level public-facing church leadership in an independent Baptist congregation is a defensible public profession of Christ in public office, parallel to the Butler-Barlow Suffolk Council UMC TRUE pattern from the prior Tidewater batch. HARD TRUE self_defense q0 + q1 + refuse_state_overreach q4: voted YES on the Jan 29, 2026 7-0 BoS resolution reaffirming Spotsylvania's 2A Sanctuary status against VA General Assembly gun-control proposals; resolution text explicitly states 'the board of supervisors hereby reaffirms and renews its declaration of 2019 that Spotsylvania County, Virginia is a Second Amendment sanctuary' — direct refusal to enforce unconstitutional state directives, parallel to the Yakabouski TRUE pattern from prior batch. HARD FALSE economic_stewardship q2 (vote-bearing FALSE, mirrors Remick prior batch): voted YES Apr 7, 2026 on the FY27 73¢ real-estate rate which after reassessments amounts to a ~5-cent effective increase over the 68¢ equalized rate (i.e., a de facto tax hike); his own rhetoric was restraint-leaning ('working hard to figure out opportunities to get cost savings... not going to impact services deeper or put the county in a deeper hole, yet show some efficiencies') but the rubric prizes vote-bearing fiscal discipline and the vote produced a hike vs equalized — parallel to Remick FY26 meals-tax FALSE. NOTE he was NOT seated for the FY25 Apr 2024 73.43¢ vote (that was Kevin Marshall's seat). NOT scored public_justice q0: platform language 'retain and properly compensate those who protect and serve us' is generic budget-style; no FOP/PBA endorsement, no proactive back-the-blue proclamation sponsorship, no officer-plus-up statement located — fails the HIGH BAR per discipline. NOT scored sanctity_of_life / biblical_marriage / family_child_sovereignty / christian_liberty q1-q3 / election_integrity / refuse_state_overreach q0-q3 / border_immigration / self_defense q2-q4 — no quote-bearing positions located in his ~5-month first BoS tenure despite extensive social-media + meeting-minutes review. OFFICE-STRING FIX: changed 'Board of Supervisors — Berkeley District' → 'County Board of Supervisors — Berkeley District' so the engine's classify_office_tier regex `county (commissioner|supervisor|judge|board)` matches local-tier (parallel to the Yakabouski fix from prior batch). 4 TRUE / 1 FALSE on cited cells = ~80% (sparse cell denominator) — coherent Baptist-deacon constitutional-conservative BoS first-termer whose distinctive features are public Christian lay leadership + 2A sanctuary reaffirmation + FY27 effective tax-hike. Recommend revisiting after 12 months on the board and any 2026-27 culture-issue BoS votes. [2026-07-19 COA2] HARD: Sitting BOS during Jan 2026 2A sanctuary reaffirmation. (Free Press). self_defense q0/q1 TRUE; refuse_state_overreach q0/q4 TRUE.