Yolanda E. Thomas

[2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement] Roster verified: Portsmouth City Council, at-large (officially nonpartisan, ran as Independent, D-aligned by civic network not by record). Term 1/1/2025-12/31/2028 — NOT on Nov 2026 ballot. NOT on council for the 1/14/2020 4-3 'Second Amendment Constitutional City' vote (she was on the Portsmouth School Board then; no Council 2A roll-call to score). Her campaign signals are all process-and-investment language — 'collaboration,' 'transformation,' 'community precincts,' 'first responder retention,' 'public education investment' — with zero hard signals on any of the 30 RESOLUTE Local cells in her ~18 months on council. Her 'five-point plan' pairs police 'with community precincts and social services outreach in high-crime, high-need areas' — soft public-health-adjacent framing, but the quote in her OWN voice never reaches the explicit 'public health crisis' phrasing the rubric scores against, and pairing police WITH social-services (rather than substituting for police) is on the line per Doyle/Bryant precedent — left null. Per the SKILL's sparse-data discipline + Doyle/Bryant precedent (single-vector progressive rhetoric without an independent endorsement vector or quoted culture-war stance does not clear FALSE or TRUE on a 1-cell denominator and would mislead), this record is left roster_verified with all 30 LOCAL-rubric cells null pending an accumulating record. NO QUOTE-BEARING POSITIONS LOCATED on sanctity of life (no abortion-stance statement), biblical_marriage (any cell — no statement on natural marriage, biological-sex/trans-youth policy, Pride proclamations; Portsmouth has no council Pride proclamation vote on record; a 'Portsmouth sanctuary for LGBTQ' resolution surfaced in search was Portsmouth, OHIO, not Virginia — verified not applicable), family_child_sovereignty (any cell — her 2020-2024 School Board platform centered on Dual Language Immersion / CTE / COVID testing protocols, process-and-program language; no parental-rights, choice/voucher, or curriculum-restriction position; her 2020 testing-protocols posture is neither pro-restriction nor anti, so christian_liberty q2 also null), christian_liberty (any cell — no profession of Christ in office; no public-square Christian symbols/prayer/Sabbath advocacy; no pastor-conscience defense; no compelled-speech-pronoun stance; the AI-generated 'St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church' affiliation could not be verified and is not used as evidence), economic_stewardship (any cell — her platform calls for new spending (community precincts, Aquatic Center, recreation-center upgrades, first-responder retention investment) which points toward expansion not restraint, but routine budget approval is not scored per rubric), election_integrity (any cell — she herself was BENEFICIARY of a 21-vote-margin recount in 2024 that confirmed her seat, neutral data point), public_justice q0 (single-vector campaign rhetoric on 'first responders' / 'community precincts and social services outreach' — Doyle-precedent NULL on a single-vector denominator that would mis-inflate), q1/q2/q4 (no cash-bail / restitution / Romans-13 framing), q3 (soft signal that pairs police with social-services outreach — but no explicit 'public health crisis' quote in her own voice → left null per strict cite-only discipline), refuse_state_overreach (any cell — no statements on COVID, ESG, federalism, subsidiarity), border_immigration q1/q2 (no Thomas statement on Portsmouth's May 2025 DHS sanctuary listing or Sheriff Moore's WSO/287(g) cancellation; Portsmouth Pride VA is a private nonprofit not city-council), self_defense q0/q1 (not seated for the 2020 2A vote; no subsequent firearms ordinance roll-call located during her tenure). Counter-archetype context: soft-progressive technocrat profile — credentialed (UVa ChemE, PMP, TowneBank VP, GRC professional), polished, talks public safety AND social-services outreach in the same five-point plan, declines to take a side on culture-war markers. Fix party Unknown→I (Portsmouth races are officially nonpartisan; real-world alignment is Democratic-leaning Independent by civic network). Recommend revisiting after FY27 budget cycle, any 2026 Pride / sanctuary / abortion / firearms council action, and her Nov 2028 re-election.