Richard J. 'Rich' Lieberman

[2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement] Roster verified: Spotsylvania SB Lee Hill District, sworn approximately Dec 11 2025 (Stevenson Ridge ceremony), 4-year term 1/2026-12/2029. PARTY FIX: Unknown → I (true non-aligned independent: refused all endorsement-org meetings in writing; self-funded campaign). RELIGION: not publicly disclosed — null; surname is Jewish-origin but he has made zero public faith statement either way (cite-only discipline). EDUCATION: not publicly disclosed beyond U.S. Army 1982-89. FAMILY: 2 sons in/through SCPS; one deaf and legally blind with other disabilities — drives SPED advocacy. iVOTERGUIDE: profile exists (candidate 88507) but he DECLINED ALL 30+ questions across life/marriage/gender/parental-rights/religion/school-choice/DEI/CRT/2A-armed-faculty/pandemic-mandates/election-integrity (https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/88507/race/23299/election/1312) — leaves every values cell honestly null under cite-only discipline. HARD TRUE family_child_sovereignty q0 (school choice): campaign bio explicitly 'supports allowing state education dollars to follow the child instead of the bureaucracy… public, private, or homeschool' (richforschoolboard.com/about-rich). HARD TRUE family_child_sovereignty q1 (parental notification/consent): campaign bio 'Parents have the fundamental right to raise their child… make decisions about the child's education and healthcare… full and timely access to any and all records, including school and medical records.' SOFT TRUE economic_stewardship q2 (fiscal restraint, mixed direction): proposed converting empty CTE building into 'super Courtland' to ELIMINATE $154M new-high-school cost — capital cost-avoidance direction (FFP 5/19/2026); but simultaneously voted YES on the $237.2M bond referendum (6-0, Rodas absent) saying 'This is how we repair roofs and add classrooms.' Net soft-true on cost-avoidance instinct even when paired with a YES on debt — the avoid-$154M-new-build proposal is the cited TRUE evidence; the bond YES is noted as a same-cell counterweight that holds it SOFT rather than HARD. SOFT TRUE public_justice q0 (publicly backed LE — partial-bar): campaigned on RESTORING the FBI Rap Back continuous-criminal-monitoring program ($100K for school employees) AND mandatory drug-testing-of-employees policy — BOTH of which Supt Mitchell opposed; this is affirmative pro-LE-vetting cross-direction with the D-majority. Doesn't clear the FXBG HARD bar by itself (no joint LE press conference, no explicit pro-deputy statement) but is multi-vector affirmative LE-vetting advocacy → SOFT TRUE. SOFT TRUE refuse_state_overreach q0 (asserted local control vs admin overreach) + SOFT TRUE refuse_state_overreach q3 (subsidiarity / local-board control vs Mitchell admin): May 12 2026 on Policy BHA-R (board-member-school-visits requiring Supt approval): 'I'm not so sure this wasn't done intentionally to slip it past us' — joined DiBella's failed 4-3 motion to TABLE; alleged the policy was altered post-April-20 board review. Procedural/transparency stance against superintendent overreach. PRE-PERIOD: Nov 7 2025 5-0 Shamgar Connors no-trespass order (Nov 12 2025 Potomac Local) AND Nov 10 2025 5-0 gun-free-zone restoration for admin building (FFP 11/11/2025) BOTH predate his Dec 11 2025 swearing-in — both NULL not FALSE on his record (do not score). NOT scored sanctity_of_life q0/q1 (no statement), biblical_marriage q0/q2/q4 (no public position on Pride / SOGI / pronouns / trans-medical / Title IX-sports — declined iVG on all), family_child_sovereignty q2 (no book vote since sworn; declined iVG), christian_liberty q0/q2/q3/q4 (no public faith / invocation / Christian-club / RFRA / Mark-Taylor-lawsuit statement — declined iVG; no religion disclosed), election_integrity q0/q1/q4 (declined iVG), public_justice q1/q2/q3/q4 (no statement beyond LE-vetting q0), refuse_state_overreach q1/q2/q4 (no VDOE-mandate / COVID / unconstitutional-directive statement), border_immigration q1/q2 (N/A SB-tier), self_defense q0/q1 (predecessor pre-period votes only; declined iVG on armed-faculty). Net 2 HARD TRUE + 3 SOFT TRUE on cited cells = ~100% on cited (sparse-data caveat: denominator essentially 5, reflects research diligence on a self-described non-aligned independent who declined iVG-all). Coherent thin-but-honest 'true independent' profile — recommend revisiting after his first FY27 budget vote, the bond referendum follow-through, and any first marriage/SOGI vote. CRITICAL: do NOT infer values-axis TRUEs from his BHA-R procedural alliance with DiBella; they are transparency allies, not stated values allies.