Full Name:
Nicholas 'Nick' J. Freitas
Gender:
Male
Family:
Wife: Tina; 3 Children: Lillyana, Luke, Alexandria
Birth Date:
08/29/1979
Birth Place:
Chico, CA
Home City:
Culpeper, VA
Religion:
Protestant
Attended, Northern Virginia Community College
BS, Intelligence Management, Henley Putnam University, 2013-2015
Delegate, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates, District 62, 2024-present
Delegate, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates, District 30, 2016-2024
Candidate, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates, District 62, 2023
Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Virginia, District 7, 2020
Candidate, United States Senate, Virginia, 2018
Former Member, Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates
Former Member, Finance Committee, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates
Former Member, Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates
Former Member, Science and Technology Committee, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates
Former Member, Subcommittee on Finance #1, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates
Former Member, Subcommittee on Militia, Police and Public Safety #1, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Representatives
Former Member, Transportation Committee, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates
Member, Courts of Justice Committee, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates, 2023-Present
Member, Education Committee, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates, 2023-Present
Member, Finance Committee, Virginia House of Delegates, 2023-Present
President, Gold Team Consulting, 2018-present
Senior Capture Manager, KEYW Corporation, 2016-2017
Director of Education and Training Services, Smarter Risk, 2015-2016
Director, Blue Light, 2013-2015
Deputy Director, NEK Intelligence Services Group Limited Liability Company, 2012-2013
Senior Program Manager Intelligence Services Group, NEK Advanced Securities Group, Incorporated, 2010-2011
Program Manager - Intelligence Services Group, NEK Advanced Securities Group, Incorporated, 2009-2010
Sergeant First Class, United States Army, 1998-2009
Member, American Legion Post 330, present
Member, Heritage Foundation, present
Member, Mountain View Church, present
Life Member, National Rifle Association, present
Member, Special Forces Association, Chapter 90, present
Member, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 2524, present
Precinct Coordinator, Bryce Reeves Virginia State Senate Campaign
Chair, Culpeper County Republican Committee, 2014
Favorite Book:
The Bible;
The Law - Frédéric Bastiat;
Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell;
The Federalist & Anti Federalist Papers;
A History of the American People - Paul Johnson;
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt;
Liberty and Tyranny - Mark Levin;
Heritage Guide to the Constitution - Heritage Foundation;
The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich Hayek;
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville;
Favorite Quote:
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
--Thomas Sowell
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
-- Ronald Reagan
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
--Ronald Reagan
"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
--Saint Augustine
"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do."
--Thomas Sowell
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
--John Adams
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."
--James Madison
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
--Thomas Sowell
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
-- Alexander Hamilton
"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms."
--Joseph Story
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone."
--Frederic Bastiat
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
--James Madison
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
--Frederic Bastiat
"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."
--Saint Augustine
"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
--James Madison
"Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness."
--Calvin Coolidge
"The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant."
--Calvin Coolidge