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Del. Rob Bell, quoted in today’s Daily Progress: [W]e can all remember how negative mailings filled with innuendo and personal attacks helped defeat Virgil Goode in 2008. Does anybody have the faintest idea of what he’s talking about? I’m not aware of a single such mailing going out. Rep. Tom Perriello ran a very clean …
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Another week, another random Republican running against Perriello. The 5CD Republican Party is a mess. The candidate, Ron Ferrin, says he looked at the comically crowded field and thought “I felt I could do better.” He has a wonderfully awful website (check out that domain name) that was probably really great in 1997, has an …
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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 …
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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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.)
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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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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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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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 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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