Posted on 11/06/2017 9:03:06 AM PST by leaymane
When he was attending Catholic University of America, Ed Gillespie worked three jobs, one in a campus dining hall, one as a short-order cook and one parking cars at the U.S. Senate.
Through the job as a parking lot attendant, Gillespie learned of an internship opportunity that led to a job on Capitol Hill, and he has not stopped working in politics and public affairs since.
Gillespie, communications ace, former lobbyist and senior aide to President George W. Bush, will find out Tuesday if Virginia voters will send a Reagan conservative to the Virginia governor’s mansion in the era of Donald Trump.
Should Gillespie succeed, he would become the first Republican elected statewide in Virginia since Bob McDonnell led his party’s sweep of statewide offices in 2009. He would likely have a GOP-controlled legislature to pass a broad agenda of bills he could sign into law.
“Job creation, getting Virginia growing again, is central to my campaign,” Gillespie said in an interview Thursday. “I truly think we should be first in the country. ... I’ve been talking about this from day one.”
The race between Gillespie and Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam is considered close. Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 5.3 percentage points in Virginia in November, but with lower turnout expected in this year’s governor’s race, Gillespie has given hope to Republicans.
This is Gillespie’s second run for statewide office in Virginia, after narrowly losing to U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., in a low turnout 2014 election.
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No, the best vote I ever made was in June of 2014 when we Cantorized the weasel Eric Cantor and saved the country from Rubio’s amnesty.
Gillespie supported that amnesty as he has supported every other amnesty that has been proposed.
I’ll hold my nose, but he is still a weasel.
There is almost always a Libertarian on the ballot.
There is this time and there isn’t a true conservative Republican running.
He is a total Bushbot! He’s the GOP leader who went to the Manchester Union Leader and declared “The days of small government Republicans is over!”
Now it’s a full court press on MS-13 and Sanctuary Cities. Good luck EG, send Northam off with a defeat.
How about a George Bush Republican? That seems more accurate.
This is/must be satire, it claims goood ole Ed is a Reagan conservative.....now thats funny. He’s more like a Karl Rove Jeb Bush LIBERAL NEW WORLD ORDER SOCIALIST.
Ha, I’d just be happy to see a Republican as governor
... “more enthusiastic about voting for him than Trump in 2016”
... posted by and spoken like a true newbie ...
VA is overrun with LEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Legal immigrants vote more than two to one Dem.
This time, friend, I cede to your wiseness...Eric Cantor was a Zero with a capital “Z”!
Maybe as a public service, the Virginia GOP can hand out barf bags to the Republican voters.
That too, we have whole condo complexes full of them, divided by country of origin.
Well, it's not funny actually; it's a damned insult to Renaldus Magnus. If people want to vote for Cheap Labor Express Gillespie, by all means do so, just don't make up stuff in an effort to ease your conscience.
One third of the residents of Fairfax County are foreign-born.
As a prominent Republican once said, it's an act of love. LOL
Yo, f’wad!! Simple question. Are you one of those maroons who would rather see a f’n liberal in office if the R’s can’t nominate a REAL HONEST TO G*D “CONSERVATIVE”!!!!???
“I didn’t say don’t vote for him, it is the article making it an issue about Trump!
They want to make sure that Trump voters don’t turn out to vote by talking about being a ‘Reagan’ conservative instead of a Trump one.”
I know, I was being sarcastic.
Cool your jets, billyboy. This thread is about truth in advertising. It's a damned insult to Renaldus Magnus to try to claim that Cheap Labor Express Gillespie is a Reagan conservative. If people want to vote for him, by all means do so, just don't make up stuff in an effort to ease your conscience.
“But does it matter when the only other real choice is a Democrat?”
That’s how we feel in Arizona each election with that scumbag McCain versus a genuine enemy Democrat. We lack enthusiasm, return the old traitor to the senate, and get cussed out for choosing the lesser of two evils.
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