Deeds seeks to shore up Hispanic vote
By: David Sherfinski
Examiner Staff Writer
October 25, 2009
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds sought to rally Latina voters on Saturday as his campaign gears up for the final sprint to the Nov. 3 election.
Deeds’ campaign organized a handful of events across the state billed as opportunities for Latinas to rally support for the Democratic candidate. Anne Holton, First Lady of Virginia, was among the volunteers cheering on campaign workers at Caribbean Breeze restaurant in Arlington Saturday morning.
The differences between Deeds and his opponent, Republican Bob McDonnell, “could not be more stark,” Holton told a group of supporters in Arlington.
“There’s nothing [done] about this election yet,” she said. “Work, work, work - 10 days!”
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Vote McDonnell (Fredericksburg Star)
McDonnell for governor
Date published: 10/25/2009
THE 2009 Virginia governor’s race has been dismal. Judging from Democrat Creigh Deeds’ ads, if Bob McDonnell is elected the savvy will invest in burqas. Pick me, Mr. Deeds pleas, because my opponent is so horrible. Mr. McDonnell, meanwhile, has penciled some changes into the worn menu of half-baked GOP ideas on transportation and called them haute cuisine. Bill Howell and Tim Kaine offered a similarly exotic hodgepodge; it fell right off the fork. Once again, to quote Irving Berlin, we say it’s spinach and to hell with it.
Hearing nothing inspiring from either hopeful, the citizen must assay personal attributes. So:
Mr. McDonnell, the former attorney general and legislator, has worked harder. He has devised a detailed plan for everything short of setting out your azaleas and flossing. State Sen. Deeds has produced no such library and, on the main issue, mobility, aims to convene a bipartisan commission. For success, he would need a bipartisan legislature. He wouldn’t have it, especially after his mucky campaign.
Mr. McDonnell is articulate, certainly a virtue in leadership (recall George W. Bush’s chronic incoherence and its incurred cost in popular support). Mr. Deeds is not a confident speaker, giving the impression that he is confused by complexity or fears candor.
Also, Mr. McDonnell is more positive. He has run his share of absurd attack ads, but, unlike his rival, hasn’t made vilification a campaign theme.
Executive capacity? Mr. McDonnell not only proficiently ran the A.G.’s office, but also, after serving four years on active duty, retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. Mr. Deeds lacks this command pedigree.
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