Shannon E. Glover

[2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement] Roster verified: Mayor of Portsmouth (officially nonpartisan, D-aligned). Second term 1/1/2025-12/31/2028 — NOT on Nov 2026 ballot. HARD positive economic_stewardship q2 evidence: at the Rivers Casino two-year mark Glover publicly framed casino-revenue distribution as enabling Portsmouth to cut the real-estate tax rate from $1.30 to $1.23 and 'freeze other rates for residents,' with ~$5M of ~$20M annual casino take steered to tax reduction and $15M to schools (WTKR). The deliberate tax-cut framing of a casino revenue windfall — and the council action that implemented it — is the cleanest local-rubric fiscal-restraint signal for a Hampton Roads D mayor and clears the bar for TRUE on the rate-restraint cell. HARD adverse self_defense q0 evidence: as a councilman Glover voted NO on Portsmouth's Jan 14, 2020 'Second Amendment Constitutional City' resolution — it passed 4-3 over his opposition (with Mayor Rowe, VM Lucas-Burke). He has not reversed that posture as mayor and went on record expressing concerns about Councilman Nathan Clark bringing an AR-15 into a council meeting. Categorical opposition to the local 2A protection cell. HARD adverse public_justice q3 evidence: at the Hampton Roads mayors' forum on youth violence (13NewsNow), Glover explicitly described youth violence as 'a public health crisis'; his Project Safe Neighborhood / Portsmouth United model centers 'trauma-trained healthcare professionals,' behavioral-health stakeholders, and clergy alongside (not above) police — textbook public-health-of-violence paradigm the rubric scores against. NO EVIDENCE FOUND on sanctity of life (no abortion-stance statement; Portsmouth has not taken up an abortion-related resolution under Glover), biblical_marriage q0/q2 (no marriage-definition or biological-sex statement), q4 (Portsmouth held its first-ever LGBTQ Pride Festival in 2022 during Glover's tenure but NO documentary evidence of a Glover-signed proclamation, City Hall Pride flag-raising, or council vote on Pride located — no scoreable cell; left null per skill discipline), family_child_sovereignty (any cell — mayor doesn't sit on Portsmouth Public Schools board; no statement located on school choice, parental notification, CRT/SOGI/library content), christian_liberty (any cell — single-vector 'faith in God' boilerplate on city bio is not a Captain-voice affirmative profession of Christ in office; no church affiliation surfaced; no public-square symbol/prayer/invocation advocacy or pastor-conscience protection located), economic_stewardship q4 (no specific federal-style BBA framing; q2 already captures the rate-cut win), election_integrity q0/q1/q4 (no statements on voter ID, paper ballots, or Zuckerbucks; Portsmouth council does not legislate state election law), public_justice q0 (his public-safety rhetoric centers 'partnership' and the 'strong arm of the law to enforce and hold them accountable' but does not clear the high bar — no quoted rejection of 'defund,' and his Crime & Gun Violence Reduction Commission framing is the same public-health body that drives the q3 FALSE — so cannot earn affirmative TRUE on q0 either), q1/q2/q4 (no cash-bail / restitution-first / Romans-13 framing located), refuse_state_overreach (any cell — took office Jan 2021 post-peak COVID; no anti-state-mandate / ESG posture located), border_immigration q1/q2 (Portsmouth on the May 2025 DHS sanctuary-jurisdictions list and city spokesperson said city was 'researching' the listing rather than disavowing; no direct Glover quote on ICE cooperation located either way — left null), self_defense q1 (his concern about an AR-15 in council chambers is single-vector and not a vote on a CCW-restriction ordinance — q0 already captures the 2A posture; left null to avoid double-counting). Counter-archetype context: D mayor who EARNS a TRUE on the rate-cut cell via Rivers Casino windfall, on-archetype otherwise (NO on 2A sanctuary, public-health framing of violence, presided over Confederate-monument removal consensus vote). The two FALSEs and one TRUE are all quote-bearing and pass the SKILL's per-cell evidence bar.