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During last fall’s election, former BET owner Sheila Johnson endorsed Bob McDonnell because she despises Creigh Deeds, on a personal level. What the backstory is there, I have no idea. But for her, this was personal. So I really got a kick out of seeing Johnson get all upset at McDonnell for his Confederate History …
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Congressman Tom Perriello spent less taxpayer money than any other Virginia congressman, Brian McNeill points out for the Daily Progress. His office spent $1,073,000 last year. Though Perriello spent the third largest amount of money on mailings to constituents, that’s probably because he held more town hall meetings about health care than any other congressman …
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From the “WTF” department: LaCivita said that Hurt will not pledge, as Perriello has, to reject contributions from lobbyists or corporate PACs. Hurt will promise, he added, to not take money from “communists”
Tom Perriello’s brother received a threatening letter in the mail today. Rough day at the Perriellos’. I wonder how they explain this to their four little kids? Does Congress—which is to say we taxpayers—foot the bill for 24-hour security on their house?
A gas line has been severed at Tom Perriello’s brother’s house, Brian McNeill reports, after teabaggers encouraged people to “drop by” that address and “express their thanks” to Perriello for his healthcare vote. (When Danville Tea Party Leader Nigel Coleman was told that he’d given the wrong address, he dismissed any harm that would result …
It’s official: Congressman Perriello’s opponents have gotten creepy and threatening: Danville Tea Party Leader Nigel Coleman posted [Perriello’s home] address on his Facebook profile, which is not limited to only his Facebook “friends.” “This is Rep. Thomas Stuart Price Perriello’s home address,” Coleman wrote Monday. “… I ain’t holding back anymore!!” When Coleman learned the …
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Teabaggers are upset because Congressman Perriello agrees with them. Seriously. He met with some of them, and told them of congress that “balanced budget acts or pay as you go legislation or any of that is the only thing, if you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing.” He figure if congress doesn’t limit …
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The Senate Rules Committee killed a bill today that would have put legislators’ voting records online. The House passed freshman Republican Jim LeMunyon’s HB778 overwhelmingly. But the Senate Rules Committee—overwhelmingly Democratic, incidentally—barely allowed it out of subcommittee, and then killed it on a 13-2 vote. Officially, they think it’d just be too darned hard to …
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 …
For the record, here is a video clip of congressional candidate Laurence Verga’s racist remarks about President Obama: This doesn’t add new information, but it does prevent anybody from claiming that his remarks are being taken out of context, as I understand his supporters are claiming. This is an excerpt from the Lynchburg Tea Party’s …
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