Jim Webb fundraiser in Charlottesville, Sept. 24

[Gopher Broke]

You are invited to An Evening with Best-Selling Authors

Stephen King

John Grisham

Jim Webb

To support Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate Jim Webb

Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 7 pm

The Paramount Theatre, The Downtown Mall

Charlottesville, Virginia

Please respond by the attached card

Inquiries to Bert Colley at 434-245-5900 bertcolley@yahoo.com

$2100 Includes wine and cheese reception with the authors and priority seating

$500 Includes preferred seating

$ 100 General admission ticket

[Gopher Broke]

Good Freep opportunity!

[Revolting cat!]

Oh no, first the awful song now this?

[AdvisorB]

Jim Webb brings in the leftist big guns to help his campaign. In Virginia? This is not going to play well in the redstate of Virginia. If I were Webb and I was trying to pull one over on the Virginia electorate, I would not be schmoozing with the liberals. Just my humble opinion as a Virginian by birth, and having been raised in this beautiful state.

[billhilly]

John Grisham must be representing The Firm.

[iowamark]

King and Grisham are no doubt studying Webb for their next horror/crime novels.

[GunsareOK]

And outside of Arlington and Alexandria, how well do Whine and Cheese go over?

[Ex-Dem]

Albemarle County, particularly Charlottesville, is pretty liberal and voted Dem in the last elections because of the number of academics and students that make up the population. I wouldn't be surprised if Webb pays a visit up here to NoVA either.

[AdvisorB]

I can tell you this for sure, it's not going to play well in the Tidewater area. I think Webb is making a strategic mistake by partying with the leftist luminaries. Virginians' are very suspicious of the literary and political farleft. Just ask ole Henry Howell.

[oldbill]

Webb, the convert Democrat, uses words from Ronald Reagan for his campaign ads.

How come he's not using those great Democrat Presidents Carter and Clinton?

[Cosmo]

We're talking about Charlottesville --- The Berkeley of the south -- which went 85% Kerry, and saw even a former conservative bastion, Albemarle county, go democrat last election. I doubt Webb will be inviting them to join him in Staunton or Green county. And I doubt the Post will be covering this event at all.

They're holding their dinner party that night at my friend's restaurant, so I'm sure I'll have some good stories to share at FR.

[AdvisorB]

I can't wait to hear the low-down. Here's hoping that word spreads throughout the Old Dominion of Webb's lurch to the left.

[pgkdan]

Jim Webb brings in the leftist big guns to help his campaign. In Virginia? This is not going to play well in the redstate of Virginia

The event's being held in Charlottesville, he can get by with it there. And in Northern Virginia. He changes his tune in the New River Valley and Shenandoah Valley or Tidewater. Then he's all about being a former Navy Secretary in the REAGAN Administration. Did you hear me, I said REAGAN. That's REAGAN Administration. The guy is so phony it's creepy. As someone once said about Bill Clinton that boy's nothin' but appetite and ambition.

[freespirited]

I wouldn't be surprised if Webb pays a visit up here to NoVA either.

I thought I read that he lives up there.

[TaxRelief]

Webb...uses words from Ronald Reagan for his campaign ads. How come he's not using those great Democrat Presidents Carter and Clinton?

> He's tryin' to pass himself of as a yeller dog Democrat, but we all know the truth:

How many ex-wives? Three ex-wives and currently married to the fourth.

It gets worse. Webb:

Supports National Health care: " Jim believes that all Americans deserve access to some form of quality health care. Health care legislation should focus on providing people access to health care, not simply on corporate profits. "

Source: Campaign website, www.webbforsenate.com, "Issues" May 2, 2006

Supports tax hikes for corporations and wealthy: "Our tax policies make no sense. Our country is breaking into three pieces, with the people at the top living in a luxury never before dreamed of, even as our middle class sees its jobs being outsourced overseas, their health care slipping away and our public education systems declining, and as the people at the bottom are becoming a permanent underclass."

Source: Campaign announcement speech Apr 28, 2006

Rewritten on the campaign website: "This country is splitting into three pieces. As a result of the internationalization of the economy, the people at the top have never had it so good. The middle class is continuing to get squeezed by stagnant wages and rising cost of living. And we are in danger of creating a permanent underclass. We must reexamine our tax and trade policies and reinstitute notions of fairness."

Source: Campaign website, www.webbforsenate.com, "Issues" May 2, 2006


Webb says, "I drifted away from the Democratic Party on national security issues [when he became a Republican, briefly] but I never left on social issues and issues of economic fairness." He opposes a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, believes trade agreements should require other nations to improve labor standards and wages, and backs abortion rights as defined by the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade. "I believe the power of the government ends at my front door unless there is a compelling reason to come inside," he says.
Source: Jeanne Cummings, Wall Street Journal, p. A6 Jun 8, 2006

"We hear a lot of talk about helping the average American, words about patriotic people who work hard and do the best they can for their families, hoping for an even break. But anyone who watches the news knows that this administration- always supported by my opponent-has put the interests of big business and corporate America before your interests. It's time for Democrats to stand up again for working people, for working Virginians who expect their leaders to listen. "
Source: Campaign announcement speech Apr 28, 2006

On free trade -- Corporate America take note:

"The Republican Senate talks endlessly about a dream-world of "free trade" while year after year their policies continue costing American jobs. In rural America, including much of Virginia, they've wholesaled entire industries such as furniture and textiles to other countries, and outsourced stacks of other jobs as well. Some say the train has left the station on this issue. I say to you, the corporations who want to betray the American worker need to pay a higher price for a ticket on that train."

Source: Campaign announcement speech Apr 28, 2006

He is McCain-like On Campaign Finance Reform:"The culture of corruption in Washington needs real reform, not the kind of half-hearted things being done by the current leaders in the Senate. The influence-peddling by lobbyists and others must be confronted. You won't see me shying away from this. I'm going to take the lead." (Goodbye free speech!)

Campaign announcement speech Apr 28, 2006

"[While in Charlottesville on August 02, 2006, Jim Webb] discussed income disparity at length along with the need to provide incentives to corporations to keep jobs at home. Largely due to taxation, there is no incentive for companies to bring wealth earned overseas back home. This is, of course, a matter of particular interest locally in the 5th district. I've had the good fortune of being able to discuss some of these issues with econ grad students informally over the course of time. That is probably material for a separate topic, but with regard to individual incentives, when the majority of Americans are experiencing a decrease in opportunity and personal stability, they are clearly averse to policies that encourage exportation of jobs and wealth."

http://www.raisingkaine.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3750

"[According to] David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, "He's very critical of the war...."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0613/p03s03-uspo.html

[ReagansRaiders]

Gee, the One Trick Pony candidate Jim Webb getting help from the One Trick Pony author John Grisham? Shocking...