Hope L. Harper

At-large council member. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement] Roster verified: At-Large Hampton City Council member, second term Jan 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2028; re-elected Nov 5, 2024 leading 9 candidates with 18.62%. Hampton council is officially nonpartisan; she ran as Independent on the ballot. THIN ISSUE FOOTPRINT — campaign site (hope4hampton.org) has no policy/Issues page; WAVY-stated priorities are 'more opportunities for youth and families,' 'lowering gun violence,' and 'adding more employment' — generic. RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: member of Bethel Temple Church, an Assemblies of God Pentecostal congregation; church affiliation is on her official Hampton.gov bio. INSTITUTIONAL ROLES: serves on Hampton Planning Commission AND the Citizens Police Advisory Group AND Hampton Redevelopment & Housing Authority — an institutional-insider profile. DOCUMENTED VOTES: (a) FY26 Hampton budget May 2025 ($677.9M, 1¢ real-estate tax-rate cut from $1.15 → $1.14/$100, 6-1 with Campbell the lone NO) — Harper was in the 6-vote YES majority by elimination; routine governance vote that includes a tax cut already engineered by staff is NOT scored as fiscal-restraint advocacy per the rubric high-bar (consistent with the Wolfenbarger precedent). (b) April 2026 camping/sleeping-on-public-property ordinance passed 5-2 (Class 2 misdemeanor); Vice Mayor Brown and CM Ferebee were the named NOs — Harper was in the YES majority by elimination, but this is a public-order ordinance, not affirmative pro-LE advocacy per the rubric q0 bar. (c) Hampton University polling-site approval (unanimous council) — ballot-access expansion, not an integrity measure. ON GUN VIOLENCE (per WAVY 2024 candidate profile): she framed it as 'a national issue that has impacted [our] communities greatly' and called for 'a community effort' and 'proven methods' — vague community-effort framing, not affirmative pro-LE advocacy and not enough to flag the rubric's public-health framing under q3. NO EVIDENCE FOUND on sanctity_of_life, biblical_marriage (Hampton sponsors Phabulous Phoebus Pride and has an LGBTQ+ liaison, but Harper has no individual vote/statement on a proclamation or trans policy), family_child_sovereignty (no school-choice/parental-notification/CRT/SOGI statement; Hampton schools are a separate elected body), christian_liberty (Bethel Temple AG membership is identity, not a public-square Christian-symbols/prayer/conscience-rights statement), economic_stewardship (routine YES on a 6-1 budget with a rate cut already in the package is not fiscal-restraint advocacy in the rubric q2 sense — distinguish from Campbell's lone-NO dissent demanding more cuts), election_integrity, public_justice (institutional CPAG service and inferred YES on camping ordinance are not affirmative pro-LE advocacy per the high bar), refuse_state_overreach, border_immigration (Hampton rejected DHS sanctuary designation in May 2025 via Mayor Gray's letter, but Harper made no individual statement), self_defense.