Posted on 05/12/2017 8:09:04 AM PDT by HokieMom
It wasn't supposed to be this hard. The party elders had got all their Democratic ducks in a row, merrily quacking, to escort Ralph Northam, Virginia's lieutenant governor, to victory in this year's gubernatorial primary on June 13. Both of the commonwealth's United States senators endorsed him. His boss the governor endorsed him, and so did nearly every Democrat in the state legislature. Even the state's hard-charging and ambitious attorney general, his only plausible rival for the Democratic nomination, had been persuaded not to run. The field cleared. Everybody loved old Ralph.
And then Tom Perriello showed up.
Perriello spent a single term in Congress, from 2009 to 2011. Those two years constitute his only experience in Virginia politics. On January 4, Perriello phoned Northam and told him he was going to run against him in the primary.
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By the time the legislature shut down at the end of Feburary, Perriello was tied with Northam in the polls. By mid-April, he had copped endorsements from both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. (In his ringing speech, Sanders called the candidate "Tom Perrioli," as if he were endorsing a new form of pasta.) The most recent polls show Perriello with a small lead.
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You are right, thanks for the correction.
Shame on Virginia for even considering the bastages from the Pervert Party.
“Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!” —Henry V
Of course, most republicans are no better. But at least perversion is not built into their party’s platforms, or overall structures.
or maybe you do. After all the ‘VAGOP’ doesn’t have a vote in the primary, just the actual voters of the state. And you are the one who said you wouldn’t vote for a GOP governor if it wasn’t the person you wanted. Which is your choice.
I am glad though not to live in a state where the establishment dictates the candidate in a backroom deal. I realize some people want the elite to control the primary process, so long as the candidate they personally support is the one the elite push to victory.
I’m pretty sure I’ll be unhappy with how the primary voters vote, but hardly unhappy enough to put up with another 4 years of a democrat as governor.
I know what you mean historically, yet, I've learn in the past year or so to embrace the red!
Perielleo... worked for the International Center for Transitional Justice, The Century Foundation, and for the National Council of Churches of Christ. (/wikipedia)
NCC was a Soviet creation.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/56261/world-council-churches-kgb-connection-mark-d-tooley
No problem. We’re all in this together.
>>>I’m voting against Gillespie in June and for Corey Stewart and I will not vote for Gillespie in November if he is nominated<<<
So, you want a Leftist Democrat to win the Governorship if Gillespie makes it to the General Election?
By not supporting the GOP Candidate you help the Democrat Candidate get Elected. That’s an interesting strategy.
Carry on...
If I lived in Virginia, I’d “cross-over” to vote for the Sanders progressive candidate also. Good idea!
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