Karen Kwiatkowski: What does a primary mean to Bob Goodlatte?
The career politician who has represented the Sixth District of Virginia for the past 20 years, and who hopes to do so for the next 20 years, has hit a speedbump.
He faces a constitutional conservative challenger who lives and works in our great Shenandoah Valley. In order to determine which Republican will be elected in November, Mr. Goodlatte was forced to choose between a GOP primary or a Sixth District convention. Read more
Interview Series: Andy Schmookler
Andy Schmookler is running uphill, perhaps, but he’s running just the same.
The Mount Jackson Democrat is challenging likely Republican nominee Bob Goodlatte, a 20-year incumbent, in the Sixth District congressional race. It’s not easy to be a Democrat in the heavily Republican Sixth, which stretches from Shenandoah County in the north to Roanoke to the south, but Schmookler, an accomplished author, social commentator and college professor, is undaunted by the task that lies ahead. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: Does Bob Goodlatte regret voting to fund Obamacare?
The buzz in conservative media is that former Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper, a Democrat, now regrets that she voted for Obamacare.
Dahlkemper is Roman Catholic, and she says she didn’t realize that Obamacare would force “all private insurers, including Catholic charities and hospitals, to provide free coverage of contraception, sterilization procedures, and the “week-after” pill.”
Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte, seeking his 11th term, voted several times to fund Obamacare, most recently last spring. Perhaps, like Democratic Congresswoman Dahlkemper, he didn’t read the bill he was voting to fund. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: No whining, Mr. Goodlatte!
Good people across the country and in the Sixth Congressional District recently handed Bob Goodlatte a major defeat.
Goodlatte had drafted, introduced, and co-sponsored the now infamous SOPA “Internet blacklist” bill. This lousy legislation contained assaults on the First, Fourth and 14th amendments – and Bob, who read the Constitution as recently as last January on the floor of the House, should have known that.
Instead, members of Congress (mostly Democrats, and Bob), who had accepted millions from Hollywood, the pharmaceutical industry, and the auto parts industry, did what they were paid to do. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: Blackout? Internet blacklist? Blame Bob Goodlatte
SOPA is extremely bad legislation, and it was written and introduced by Bob Goodlatte, in his role as Chairman of the Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet Subcommittee, late last year. SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, has taken much of the criticism. But the bill is Bob’s baby.
Bob’s bad bill creates blacklisting, increases bureaucratic power over Internet providers and users, and is technologically misaligned with – and even destructive of – the architecture of the Internet. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: Agenda 21 is not conservative – will Rep. Goodlatte take note?
On Jan. 14, 2012, the Republican National Committee unanimously voted to expose and condemn the United Nations Agenda 21. This may be a shock to many GOP incumbents in Congress who receive campaign donations, pre-drafted legislation, and “expert” advice from Agenda 21-inspired advocates of centralized and global human management.
The RNC resolution explains Agenda 21 as “a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering and global political control, that was initiated at the [1992] United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED);….” The plan was signed by President George H.W. Bush, and has been supported actively by the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. Agenda 21 has never been endorsed by the U.S. Senate, and is not U.S. law. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: What Super Tuesday in Virginia really tells us
Posted by afp on March 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment
While losing the state, Ron Paul won in the counties of Warren, Buckingham, Alleghany, Craig, Montgomery, Pulaski, Floyd, Patrick, Surry, and the cities of Lynchburg, Charles City, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the little town of Norton in the southwest corner. Where you have retired veterans, active duty military, honest conservatives, farmers and young people, Ron Paul did well even though he had — and has — no support from the GOP itself. Read more
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