Verga clarifies. Kind of.

In today’s Daily Progress, they’ve talked with Laurence Verga about his remarks about President Obama: Laurence Verga, one of the seven Republicans hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy, has clarified recent remarks that he said have been “mischaracterized as racist.” […] On Tuesday, Verga released a statement with an unedited transcript of his …

The Tea Party: Just like any other political party, only hopelessly naïve.

The Tea Party presents itself as a grassroots, jus’ folks, not-gonna-take-it-any-more uprising, consisting of regular people who were so fed up after several weeks of Barack Obama’s presidency that they just couldn’t take it anymore and they just had to do something. But that’s basically the opposite of what we’re seeing here in the fifth …

Yet another 5th District Republican (YA5DR) running against Perriello.

The field of Republican candidates vying to run against Rep. Tom Perrillo is so strong that…a seventh candidate has kicked off his campaign. Jim McKelvey, a Smith Mountain Lake developer, completes our septumvirate of dwarves. McKelvey says both that he’s not satisfied with any of the other candidates and that “a couple of other good, …