o      In an Aug. 1, 2019, article, the Herald-Leader reported, “‘In 2016, it became apparent that the Republican Party wasn’t for me,’ Hicks said. ‘It wasn’t going in a direction I approved of, it wasn’t representing interests that I thought were important for the government to represent. Once somebody becomes the party exclusively of corporate special interests, that’s not what I believe government is intended to do.’”[1]

[1] Daniel Desrochers, “Construction worker. Marine. Cop. Lawyer. Now this man wants to oust Andy Barr,” Herald-Leader, Aug. 1, 2019