Leesburg City Council candidate Jeff Sexton offered “three solemn oaths” to city voters at a called news conference on the Leesburg City Hall lawn Tuesday evening.

Sexton, who is facing telecommunications business owner Rhonda Futch for a vacant City Council seat, vowed to “protect and defend our Constitution,” to “preserve, protect and promote our rights to know what our government is doing,” and to “never vote to raise our water or trash rates, or any other tax, fee or any other creative name used to hide a tax increase.”

Sexton, a political blogger and Web designer, also accused the Leesburg Council of “holding the city back.”

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