Rick Waugh

Rickard Elian "Rick" Waugh, Jr. (b. June 20, 1974) is a social worker and politician from Louisa, Virginia. He is currently the Democratic nominee in Virginia's 7th congressional district during the 2010 mid-term elections.
Early life and education
Waugh, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was brought up in a military household. His father, Rickard Waugh, Sr., spent twenty years in the Navy, and when Waugh was growing up, they would move from base to base every three years or so. Eventually his family settled in the Tidewater region of Virginia. Waugh attended Radford University and graduated in 1998 with degrees in psychology and criminal justice.
Career
Waugh has made his career as a social worker , working with youth, families, veterans, disabled folks, and the elderly throughout central Virginia and Tidewater with issues such as financial stresses, inadequate health care, and losses of homes due to the financial crisis. As a social worker he has been an employee in the public sector as well as the private sector. Waugh has also owned his own small business working with at-risk youth.
Political organizing
Waugh became a volunteer for Barack Obama in 2007 , working as an organizer in Louisa County. Obama won the Virginia primary in February 2008 and won the state in the November 2008 election, the first Democrat to do so since 1964. For his efforts, Waugh was awarded the Virginia Grassroots Award by the Democratic Party of Virginia.
2010 U.S. Congressional campaign
Waugh is challenging Republican incumbent Eric Cantor to represent the 7th District which consists predominantly of Richmond suburbs and rural counties in Central Virginia, cutting a diagonal swatch that runs from the western part of Richmond City all the way to the opposite side of the Shenandoah Valley in Page County. Some of Waugh's endorsements include the AFL-CIO, local, state and national chapters of Progressive Democrats of America and Virginia Partisans. Floyd Bayne of the Independent Greens of Virginia Tea Party is also challenging Eric Cantor for the November 2nd, 2010 election for the 7th District.
Waugh's vehicle was vandalized on October 20, 2010 while parked near his home. The vandal wrote expletives on the candidate's Ford Thunderbird as well as gluing a Cantor campaign sign to it.
Personal
Waugh and his wife Bobbi live in Blue Ridge Shores, just inside of Louisa County, where they are raising a family. His stepson returned from Iraq in late 2009.
Waugh was a longtime resident of Hampton Roads, Virginia and his parents currently live in Colonial Beach, Virginia.
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