My Congressman, Tom Perriello, held more town hall meetings During August than anyone in the country at last check. Meetings throughout the District were attended by hundreds, maybe in excess of thousands of citizens seeking information and to ask their representative questions face-to-face.
I attended two meetings; one in Prince Edward County, and one in Cumberland [...]
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Thoughts on Recent Town Hall Meetings
Posted in Congress, Cumberland County, Democrats, Fifth Congressional District, House of Representatives, Republicans, Tom Perriello on September 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Reasons Why Health Care Reform Must Come to Rural Areas
Posted in Democrats, Health Care, Personal, Republicans on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Rural areas in Virginia are particularly hard hit by shrinking or non-existent availability to affordable health care, or sometimes, any health care at all. Since I live in a rural area myself, I started looking around at what was happening with regional and local health care.
There are some studies that have looked at access and [...]
GOP Candidates for 5th District Speak Out About Running in 2010
Posted in 2010 Elections, Democrats, Fifth Congressional District, House of Representatives, Tom Perriello on August 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I wonder if one of the requirements these days for Republicans to run for office is that they must agree and promote the talking points of the day, or in this case, of the year. The GOP candidates for the 5th Congressional District seat currently held by Rep. Tom Perriello sound as if they just [...]
Rep. Tom Perriello Talks With Rachel Maddow
Posted in Democrats, Fifth Congressional District, House of Representatives, Tom Perriello on August 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Rep. Perriello (D-05) talks with Rachel Maddow about meeting with citizens and the forged letters he recently received.
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Letters Sent to Perriello Opposing Energy Bill Were Forged
Posted in Congress, Democrats, House of Representatives, Republicans, Tom Perriello, energy on July 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Brian McNeil of the Daily Progress is reporting tonight that at least 6 letters received by Congressman Perriello’s office in Charlottesville were fakes sent in the names of two minority-based organizations in Charlottesville.
Creciendo Juntos is one organization. It serves the community in the Charlottesville area concerning issues important to Hispanic residents. The non-profit network was [...]
Virginia Free Press is Now Available
Posted in Bloggers, Democrats, Republicans, Virginia Free Press on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, Virginia Free Press became available to the public to read. It is a blog with a magazine format, and the hope of the writers there, of which I am one, is to raise the quality of discourse in the Virginia blogosphere.
Too many times, we have seen blog posts or articles that are nothing more [...]
Desperate Republicans Lie About Perriello, Energy Bill
Posted in Congress, Democrats, Fifth Congressional District, Republicans, Tom Perriello on July 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Interesting to see the NRCC continue its negative false advertisements. Slow down guys! There’s a long time until January 2010, you don’t want to use all your lies all at once this year.
