Chris, what did you do to make David Karaffa get mad?

I don’t hold the same personal grudges that some Dems do toward people like Lynn Mitchell and David Karaffa. Perhaps it’s because I’ve met them, and though I vehemently disagree with them on many important substantive issues, I know them well enough to understand that they’re as motivated by what they believe to be right as I am about what I believe to be right.

That said, no, no, no, no, and nothing against them, but neither is ready to be a member of the House of Delegates or other elected body yet.

Dickie Bell was the obvious choice on the GOP side tonight. I hope we at least made the 20th District GOP nominating committee think a little bit before they nominated the obvious choice.

How far Mike Stark has gone…while Lynn Mitchell has done NOTHING….

2) From the original diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/4/266480/-It-happened-AGAIN!!-(updated-again-with-better-video-link)

“I however, saw an opening. There was no obstruction between me and the door through which the Senator had to pass in order to get to the tarmac. I made haste to establish position so that I could ask my question before the Senator left. I had just about arrived when I saw a blur out of my peripheral vision. A twenty-something that had stood in front of me during Allen’s speech (whispering things back and forth to whom I thought was his mom) just barely clipped my arm and took a dive.”

Now, who do you think that 20 something and “his mom” was? Chris Green may know….he left a few comments on the youtube page.

3) Many pics of the “fallen 20 something patriot”: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/4/266480/-It-happened-AGAIN!!-(updated-again-with-better-video-link)#c579

4) Alex Davis and Anne Taetzsch admit involvement right here, and OH MY! Anne basically says nothing and Davis refuses to comment to the police! Also, Lynn Mitchell admitted she was at the same raly, with the same group of people IN WRITING:
http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2006/11/stark-stalks-senator-allen-at-weyers.html

http://www.whsv.com/news/headlines/4567637.html

“Stark says he brushed by an Alex Davis who fell.

Davis didn’t comment on the incident but other Allen supporters told a different story.

Ann Taetzsch says she was pushed as Stark rushed by.

“I was in a crowd of folks and Mr. Stark pushed me out of the way and into the camera in order to get around the folks to get to the senator,” says Taetzsch.”

My point is that LYNN MITCHELL has been involved in VERY SHADY CAMPAIGN tactics and should be kept far away from any elected position.

A woman and a young man, rumored around the VA blogosphere to be Lynn Mitchell and Alex Davis (used to have a blog, friends with Lynn), both claimed Mike Stark hit them at the rally he was removed from and then detained at the police station nearby. Both the woman and young man apparently made quite a scene and went to the police station to give their “story”. In the end, they did not file a report, but they sure took up a lot of time at the police station, LYING. They did this to create a spectacle and get Mike Stark removed more quickly than he would have been. There is a video out there; you can see Alex Davis/ Alex Davis deleted his blog in its entirety not long afterward…..

The commenter, I assume, is referring to the detention and removal of Stark from a George Allen campaign rally at the Shenandoah Valley Regional AIrport in 2006.

In the absence of any evidence that Mitchell filed a police report in that matter or another matter involving Stark, I can’t allow any comment to that effect to remain on the site.

http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2009/07/del-swac-girl.html

See you in the political area. ~Lynn

Dickie Bell stands on principle, but so much that, as Chris points out, he stands often as the lone naysayer. That doesn’t get much done, and he does resemble Eeyore (as Jim McCloskey once portrayed him, I believe). He is the one councilperson conservatives in Staunton know and love (and vote for) but I don’t know if that translates into broad support in the area. And he has shown himself querulous at times.

Mr. Sayre would be a disaster for the area and potentially for his party because of his negativity on most issues. If he has a positive policy message, it never emerged from a cloud of “I’m not that liberal (sic) Hanger fellow”. Maybe if Chris were his campaign manager (joke, I trust).

SWACGirl! A perennial voice, mostly congratulating people who think as she does on how clever they are. The circle jerk of local Republican bloggers often got hilarious in recent years as the spent their time congratulating each other on their insights. I would love to see her in a debate the Eric Curren….or Scott Sayre for that matter.

Given the apparent choices, if ever we needed a Democrat, it’s right now.