McKelvey campaign on the air in the Fifth
Story by Chris Graham
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The Jim McKelvey for Congress campaign is on the air with two TV commercials on stations across Virginia’s Fifth District that debuted today. Read more
Verga statement on incident at Perriello home
Story by Chris Graham
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Fifth District Republican nomination candidate Laurence Verga issued a statement this morning on the incident at the home of the older brother of Congressman Tom Perriello.
“I condemn any acts or promotion of violence against Congressman Tom Perriello’s family or any American for that matter. Disagreements over policy should never be resolved by violence but through civil discussion and elections,” Verga said. Read more
Two GOP hopefuls pledge fight for health-care repeal
Story by Chris Graham
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Fifth District Republican nomination candidates Robert Hurt and Feda Morton are both saying this week that they would work if elected to Congress to repeal the federal health-care reform signed into law by President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
“I have pledged to the people I’m seeking to represent that not only will I vote against government-run health care, I will seek to roll it back should it become law this year,” said Hurt, a Southside state senator and the early favorite to win the GOP nomination in the Fifth. Read more
GOP candidates press Perriello – and each other
Story by Chris Graham
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Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello is facing a full-court press from the Republicans gunning for the chance to knock him off in November. The press might work better if the GOP’ers weren’t trying at the same time to steal the ball from each other.
“My opponent Jim McKelvey put out a statement challenging Congressman Perriello to ‘go ahead and make my day’ by voting for the pending health-care bill. This is exactly the type of arrogant thought process the people of Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District and the country cannot afford to tolerate any longer.” Read more
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Jim McKelvey: Senate Bill 481
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Once again politicians at every level of government do not get it. State Sen. Robert Hurt introduced SB 481; this bill essentially lowers the number of new employees a business must hire to be eligible for a tax credit. We need to stop writing new bills to solve private-sector problems. Instead we need to remove bills that weigh down business.
As a businessman I am not interested in another bill to give tax credits for hiring employees. People in the private sector are hired based on free-market demands, not on tax credits. As a small-business owner, try this on for size: cut taxes, drastically reduce the size of government, slash government spending and get rid of the over-burdensome regulation placed on business.
This bill and others like it are produced by government bureaucracies bent on writing new bills to justify their own existence. I have a tremendous respect for the new McDonnell administration and wish them all the best, not only for them, but also for the citizens of our great Commonwealth. But please, bring accountability and common sense back to our government.
Simplify, simplify, simplify! Read more
Poll: Hurt is the early frontrunner in the Fifth GOP race
Story by Chris Graham
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The conventional wisdom in the Fifth District Republican congressional race has been that Southside State Sen. Robert Hurt is the early frontrunner. A poll released Friday morning confrims the conventional wisdom.
Hurt leads the seven-candidate field with 22 percent of projected primary voters surveyed by Public Policy Polling this week expressing a preference for the veteran state legislator. Albemarle County Board of Supervisors member Ken Boyd is the only other candidate to register support in the double-digits, at 12 percent.
The tab undecided stands at 51 percent, indicating that there is much room for movement in the nearly four months leading up to the June primary that will decide on the Republican Party nominee. Read more
Chris Graham: Looking ahead to the fall in the Fifth
Posted by afp on June 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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The good news on the surface for Fifth District Republicans – somebody won the seven-candidate GOP primary in resounding fashion.
The bad news – the winner was the moderate, State Sen. Robert Hurt, and his win, though resounding in one sense, didn’t get him to 50 percent of the votes cast overall.
TheWorldAccordingToChrisGraham.com has the column.
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