Martin A. Thomas Jr.

[2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement] Roster verified: Norfolk City Council Ward 1 (officially nonpartisan) + Vice Mayor; term 1/1/2023-12/31/2026 (ON Nov 2026 ballot); re-elected Vice Mayor 1/7/2025. D-aligned soft signals only (Northam-appointed VA College Building Authority Board seat; no public dissent from council mainstream under Mayor Alexander D); no formal party label — set to 'I'. PRO-POLICE RHETORIC FOUND but LEFT NULL on public_justice q0 per the SKILL's sparse-data-trap discipline: his 2022 candidate profile coverage has Thomas naming public safety his top priority, calling for a 'world-class police force,' and as councilman 'successfully championed increases in pay for public safety employees.' That is single-vector campaign-and-budget framing without an independent endorsement vector (no police-union endorsement located, no quoted anti-defund denunciation) — same shape as the Doyle precedent (refinements/natl-local-VA-2026-06-02-1441.json), where the SKILL discipline kept the only police-related cell null to avoid a misleading 100/100 score from a 1-cell denominator. Marked roster_verified accordingly. NO EVIDENCE FOUND on sanctity of life (no abortion-stance statement), biblical_marriage (any cell — no quoted statement on marriage, biological sex, or Pride proclamations; Norfolk's Pride Month observance is administrative city PR, no council roll-call located), family_child_sovereignty (any cell — his only schools-adjacent action is co-leading a 2025 council push to force NPS to consolidate 10 schools, which is fiscal/efficiency, not parental-rights/CRT-SOGI/choice), christian_liberty (any cell — no church affiliation surfaced, no profession of Christ), economic_stewardship q2 (the schools-consolidation resolution is local efficiency, not federal-style BBA framing), election_integrity (any cell), public_justice q1/q2/q3/q4 (his pro-prosecution remarks about stolen-gun offenders being 'arrested, prosecuted appropriately and efficiently, and sent to prison' don't name cashless bail or Soros-DA policy — soft, not hard), refuse_state_overreach (any cell — Northam-appointed board seat is a cooperative posture, not a specific overreach vote), border_immigration (any cell — Norfolk on DHS 2025 sanctuary list, but Thomas not quoted in any coverage either way), self_defense q0/q1 (the 2020 Norfolk firearms-in-buildings ordinance was pulled before any roll-call and never returned — Thomas has no recorded vote on it; the 2A sanctuary petition failed signatures so there was no vote on it either). Counter-archetype context: quiet, ward-focused, downtown-attorney council technocrat with a Northam state-board appointment; thin culture-war footprint by design.