A black conservative woman wants to topple the Democratic machine in Alexandria

Annetta Catchings is looking to make history. She is running for mayor of Alexandria, Virginia. If she wins, she will be the city’s first black female mayor. She will also be the city’s first Republican mayor since before Elvis debuted.

Catchings has a daunting task, but she is ready to take on the challenge. After decades of one-party rule, she tells me, she is the right choice to restore Republican politics in Alexandria. She is currently the director of a nonprofit organization called Elite 10s and Education. She feels Alexandria is on the wrong path and that she can change that.

“When we allow ourselves to transcend beyond the boundary lines that hold us back, only then do we truly expand ourselves and are humbled by our own discovery that we are more alike than different” is the first quote one sees when they land on Annetta Catchings’s webpage.