Perriello, the Democrat [Took out Goode] VA 5th D. [Vanity]

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I'm just sending out a feeler about Perriello. I'm considering a weekly Perriello ping unless someone is doing something like that already. BTW, he voted for Obama-care.

[And yes, I live in this district. But DC and world news have had practically all my political attention.]

Just for background [not quotable -- wiki alert]

Wikipedia [warning -- not a quotable source, just a good launching pad] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Perriello

Thomas Stuart Price "Tom" Perriello (born October 9, 1974 in Ivy, Virginia) is an American politician and attorney. He is the Democratic congressman from the fifth district of Virginia. The district includes much of Southside Virginia, and stretches north to Charlottesville. He pulled one of the biggest upsets in the 2008 election,[1] unseating six-term incumbent Virgil Goode.

Wikipedia [warning -- not a quotable source, just a good launching pad] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%27s_5th_congressional_district

Virginia's 5th congressional district

Election results from presidential races Year Office Results 2008 President McCain 51 - 48% 2004 President Bush 56 - 43% 2000 President Bush 55 - 41%

Election results from congressional races Year Office Results 2008 Congress Perriello 50.1 - 49.9% 2006 Congress Goode 59.1 - 39.9% 2004 Congress Goode 63.7 - 36.3%

Virginia's fifth congressional district is a United States congressional district in the commonwealth of Virginia. It covers all or part of Greene, Campbell, Bedford, Albermarle, Nelson, Fluvanna, Buckingham, Cumberland, Appomattox, Prince Edward, Charlotte, Lunenburg, Franklin, Henry, Pittsylvania, Halifax, Mecklenberg, and Brunswick Counties, making it Virginia's largest district with an area of 8922.03 square miles - 193 sq. mi. larger than New Jersey. It includes the independent cities of Bedford, Charlottesville (main site of the University of Virginia), Danville, and Martinsville. The district's representative in Congress is Democrat Tom Perriello, who has been certified the winner of the 2008 election to the 111th Congress over incumbent Republican Virgil Goode by a margin of 745 out of over 316,000 votes cast.[1][2] After the Board of Elections certified this result, Goode went to court seeking a recount, which was conducted on December 16 and 17.[3] On December 17, the recount was concluded and Tom Perriello was finally certified as the winner with a margin of 727 (0.229%) out of 316,893 votes cast.[4]

Wikipedia on Perriello Background:

Perriello is a lifelong resident of Ivy, a small unincorporated community west of Charlottesville. However, he is listed in the House roll as "D-Charlottesville." He attended Murray Elementary School, Meriwether Lewis Elementary School, Henley Middle School and Western Albemarle High School in the county school system, and then graduated from St. Anne's-Belfield School, a private school. He earned B.A. (1996) and J.D. (2001) degrees at Yale University. He attained the rank of Eagle Scout in Boy Scout Troop 114 in Ivy, and was a legislative page in the Virginia House of Delegates.[2]

Career and activism From 2002-03, Perriello was Special Advisor to the international prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he worked with child soldiers, amputees, and local pro-democracy groups, and helped to prosecute warlords.[3] He later became the Court's Spokesman and helped to indict Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, peacefully forcing him from power. He has worked as a consultant to the International Center for Transitional Justice in Kosovo (2003), Darfur (2005), and Afghanistan (2007) where he worked on justice-based security strategies. Perriello has also been a fellow at The Century Foundation and consultant to the National Council of Churches of Christ. He helped to launch FaithfulAmerica.org, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, and is a co-founder of DarfurGenocide.org and Avaaz.org, an international on-line community of 3.3 million members, operating in 12 languages, dedicated to building a global response to "problems without borders" such as climate change. He has also worked with the Rev. James Forbes on prophetic justice principles.[4]

Perriello, a resident of Albemarle County, has spent much of his career working in West Africa and the Middle East to create strategies for sustainable peace, and he was involved in the peace processes that helped end the civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia.[5] As a public entrepreneur, he has helped to launch organizations and movements focused on social justice and human rights. He is a founding partner of Res Publica, which develops innovative solutions to global justice and security threats, and of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, which has worked since the 2004 election to help balance and expand the faith and values discourse in America.

In the 2008 election, Perriello launched a campaign based on conviction politics, achieving a surprise win over Republican incumbent Virgil Goode, a longtime figure in Virginia politics, after having trailed Goode in the polls by 32% only three months earlier. Goode had represented a large portion of the district for 38 years, including representing much of the southwest portion of the district in the Senate of Virginia prior to serving in Congress.

Perriello declared victory on November 7, although Goode filed for a recount.[6] The 2008 congressional race was Perriello's first run for elected office. Goode conceded via a press release after the recount was finished which placed the final difference at 727 votes.[7]

The traditionally Democratic urban areas of the district gave Perriello significant margins over Goode. While Goode won 13 of the 20 county-level jurisdictions in the district, Perriello won all but one independent city, Bedford which went for Goode by only 16 votes. Ultimately, Perriello prevailed largely on the strength of a more than 25,000 vote margin in Charlottesville and surrounding Albemarle County. Perriello's performance showed the most dramatic improvements over past Democratic voting in the more conservative areas of the district hardest hit by decades of job loss and economic slowdown. As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama also improved on past Democratic performance, but he ultimately lost this district by around 7,500 votes (2.5 percentage points). For example, Perriello significantly outperformed Obama in the strongly conservative southwestern portion of the district (ironically, where Goode is from). Perriello may also have been helped by coattails from atop the ticket, as Mark Warner won the district in a landslide with 65 percent of the vote. [8].

http://perriello.house.gov

[Impy]

Goode isn’t in the race as of now.

He’s talked about an independent run if supposed moderate State Senator Hurt wins the GOP nod.

I wish he would spare us and just run as a Republican. He’d win easily.

Possibly however a Goode indie run wouldn’t mean certain reelection for the rat though as we’ve been thinking.

According to a poll by PPP in a three way race

Goode 41

Perriello 41

Hurt 12

Goode should just get in, as a Republican, now, right now. Hurt wouldn’t have even run if Goode got in 6 months ago.

[Mad Dawg]

I live outside Scottsville. I’d be interested in the page and the ping.

I kinda thought Periello won because of the changing demographics in the district. The very things I like about Verge are things that were held against him.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

TY for the encouragement, FRiend. =]

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you very much, FRiend. It’s emabarrrrassing to admit this, but you know more about my district than I do.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

OK FRiend! I live in the north side of Halifax County, above the town of Halifax. We are the county where Cornwallis was blocked by the Dan River, and his victory turned into a humiliating route. We have a knee high mini-monument here near the Dan River.

[cripplecreek]

What we need is a running thread where all the good candidates who could use some help can be gathered together and we can try to pull in some funding for them.

I wrote this up a couple weeks back.

Just a suggestion for fellow tea partiers (and FReepers of course) to consider.

In blue states where conservatives have a legitimate shot, how about you red staters helping us out?

This is just one example but I'm sure there are many more.

In Michigan's 7th district conservative Tim Walberg is leading incumbant democrat Mark Schauer in early polls which is a good thing. However, fundraising has been an issue in a state where the private sector has been decimated and the ACORN/SEIU types have been getting an increasing share of the taxpayer nipple. Basically there is nothing more to give in the places that need conservatives the most and I'm sure democrats have been counting on this.

I hope red state conservatives will take a close look at their races and if the conservative is doing well, maybe you can consider sending a few bucks to blue state conservatives who have a legitimate shot.

When you help a blue state elect a conservative, you help that state stand on its own and more important you help America.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Fund raising is essential. I’m more of a research coordinator. My goal is to help concentrate information and leave a few key threads as nerve centers for people to copy, add to, and share.

This will go increasingly important in the future so long as free speech is left alone. Just imagine someone getting this as a tweet:

Cash for Convicts? [Stimulus checks for first degree murderers]
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/26044849/cash-for-convicts.htm

There’s an issue Goode supporters could distribute through a variety of low cost means.

[Corin Stormhands]

Did I miss an announcement that Goode is running again? That’s his campaign page from 2008. It hasn’t been updated as best I can tell.

[NBCforSure]

From one Virginian to another......Go Goode! Punch Perriello and hurt Hurt!!!!

[Impy]

No he’s made no announcement as of yet.

[Impy]

We election watch junkies have been following the race.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you for the encouragement FRiend. OK, I’ll start up a ping list and research thread against Perriello and for the better conservative [which so far appears to be Goode].

Anyone who wants on the list, please let me know. Just once a WEEK .... LOW volume.

— FRegards ....

[I’ll catch up tomorrow. Need some sleep soon.]

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“We election watch junkies have been following the race.”

FRiend, the truth is you CARE. You give a darn about freedom and the vision of our founding fathers. God bless you and all the others who research so tirelessly.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Yeah, I woke up too early this morning and really butchered this thread. Sorry about that.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

To make it clear — no, no announcements that I know of. This is just a sloppy “feeler” thread. I can work on a better one if there’s nothing else planned in the forum. Please forgive any confusion.

If no one else is running a Perriello Watch ping list, I’d like to do it on a weekly basis. [Hard to build a high volume ping list anymore. So I’ll just add a link list once a week above the ping.]

I’ll just keep their screen names in a private file so people don’t pester them “high volume”. Although I think your profile list is an intriguing way of doing it [for those who don’t mind high volume].

[Corin Stormhands]

Go for it. I think this is a race to watch. But there’s a mighty crowded primary field already.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“But there’s a mighty crowded primary field already.”

Right. That’s why election pings should be weekly or maybe even bi-weekly.

OK, FRiend. I’m busy with the McCain/Hayworth ping and a general news ping too [along with my efforts to make money as a struggling writer]. But I don’t see anyone else stepping forward in my district [at least on this forum]. FRegards ....

[NBCforSure]

I have only been part of this group for a very short time and still don’t understand what ‘ping’ means! But whatever it is, if it means an opportunity to help promote a conversative in our state....count me in!!!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Welcome aboard! Being on a ping list means you are being posted to now and then, just like this. Some pings are high volume and will drive you nuts. I’m trying to create low volume pings, just once a week. [Not sure when the first ping will be ready. FRegards ...]

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

If you can handle more pings than that, you might want to ask Stormhands:

http://www.freerepublic.com/~corinstormhands

FRegards ....