Sen. Robert Hurt is joining the fray for the Republican nomination in the 5th CD. He’s the sixth candidate to enter the race to challenge Rep. Tom Perriello, and enters as the clear leader. Hurt only advanced to the senate last election, and before that served in the house since 2002. He’s never really distinguished …
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A fifth Republican packs into the anti-Perriello clown car.
It’s a Wednesday, and you know what that means: yet another Republican who wants to run against Rep. Tom Perriello, Albemarle resident Michael McPadden. (Note that’s four out of five who are from north of the James.) He appears to basically be a clone of most of his fellow challengers. He’s a blogger. Here’s a …
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Cordel Faulk will pass on challenging Perriello.
Cordell Faulk is not running for the Republican nomination against Rep. Tom Perriello. Good move. His candidacy would have been awkward for Larry Sabato’s Center for Politics, for whom he’s spokesman. (Though NBC 29 describes him as the “former spokesman,” which is news to me.)
Perriello challenger Rees just got convicted on a guns charge.
Bradley Rees, Republican challenger to Rep. Tom Perriello, has been convicted on a concealed-weapons charge, Ray Reed writes for the News & Advance. He had two hanguns—a .380 and a .45—concealed in his car, which concerned police when they pulled him over for driving with an expired inspection rejection sticker. Rees is just thick with …
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Bonner & Associates lying about letter-forging scandal.
About the only thing that astroturfing PR firm Bonner & Associates has had going for them in their ongoing letter-forging scandal is that they immediate contacted all of the organizations from whom they faked letters to Rep. Tom Perriello. They’ve said over and over again that they immediately owned up to the error as soon …
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Tucker Watkins just making stuff up about Perriello.
From the Department of Making Shit Up: “I think that there is a great opportunity for this district to be Republican again,” said Tucker Watkins, the longtime chairman of the 5th Congressional District Republican Committee, who has been meeting with a dozen possible candidates. “Congressman Perriello has not lived up to his pledge of working …
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Some odd characters are lining up to challenge Rep. Perriello.
The lineup of challengers to Tom Perriello is shaping up to be quite a bunch of characters. Where do they find these people? Here’s Rep. Perriello challenger Feda Kidd Morton accusing the boards of elections in municipalities across the state of colluding with the State Board of Elections and Tom Perriello to get Virgil Goode …
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A second candidate is running against Rep. Perriello.
A Fluvanna woman will become the second challenger to Rep. Tom Perriello, Michael Sluss writes in today’s Roanoke Times. Feda Kidd Morton spent 1995-2005 as the chair of the Fluvanna Republicans, recently concluded a stint on the school board, and is a biology teacher at the high school. (She’s third from the left in this …
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Energy bill opponents forged letters to Rep. Perriello.
A lobbying firm has admitted to forging letters to Rep. Tom Perriello in the names of a two Charlottesville groups, all asking him to vote against the energy bill. Professional astroturfers Bonner & Associates variously claimed to be “Marisse K. Acevado, Asst Member Coordinator” of Creciendo Juntos and various nonexistent members of the Albemarle-Charlottesville branch …
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Data geeks uncover congressional corruption.
The good folks at the Sunlight Foundation have been studying the correlation between campaign contributions and congressional earmarks, and in doing so they caught Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN) red-handed getting earmarks for major donors. Is it legal? Assuming that there was no bribe menu, probably. But it’s almost certainly not right. This is a great …
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