Vanke hits the air with two TV spots
Sixth District independent congressional candidate Jeff Vanke has hit the air with two spots that are running in cable markets across the district. The spots tout Vanke’s push for a balanced federal budget and his pledge to serve only six terms if elected – a dig at nine-term incumbent Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte’s 1992 pledge [...]
Vanke releases Contract with Western Virginia
Independent Sixth District congressional candidate Jeff Vanke released a Contract with Western Virginia today at an event in Roanoke – highlighting a promise to voters similar to one made by nine-term incumbent Bob Goodlatte 18 years ago. “One point of my contract is to promise, on my Eagle Scout’s honor, to hold this seat for [...]
Vanke defends release of push poll
Independent candidate Jeff Vanke is defending his campaign’s release of a two-question push poll that was touted in e-mail as showing him within four points of incumbent Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte. “My campaign is not ’tilting at windmills,’ as one journalist asked me about,” Vanke wrote in an e-mail to members of the media [...]
Fun with poll numbers in the Sixth
A poll commissioned by Sixth District independent congressional candidate Jeff Vanke has him within four points of Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte. OK, yes, there’s a catch. The two-question poll, conducted on Tuesday, resembled a push poll, pushing respondents on Vanke’s central campaign message of balancing the federal budget, and taking shots at Goodlatte over campaign [...]
Independents face uphill battle against Goodlatte
The Sixth District is a safe one politically, so safe that Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte does not have a Democratic Party opponent on the ballot in the November elections, though there are two independent candidates vying for the seat. The challenge ahead for Stuart Bain, a Libertarian, and Jeff Vanke, a self-described “Independent-Centrist,” is pretty [...]
Vanke joins Center Party to Modern Whigs
Sixth District congressional candidate Jeff Vanke has joined his new Center Party to the Modern Whig Party and has received the backing of the Whigs in his 2010 campaign. “The Modern Whigs are inspiring to me in purpose, earnestness, and steadfastness,” Vanke said in a statement. “Knowing the party as I now do, I would [...]
Vanke fights Capitol Hill convention
A question for Jeff Vanke. You’re an independent candidate for Congress. Let’s say you’re elected. Who do you caucus with? The answer will surprise you. “I wouldn’t caucus with either party. I would have a vote on the House floor,” said Vanke, a self-described “independent centrist” from Roanoke who is challenging Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte [...]
Vanke gives Waynesboro a first impression
Jeff Vanke was a one-man campaign team at Sunday’s Summer Extravaganza in Waynesboro. It’s called retail politicking – giving people what one voter who Vanke, an independent candidate for the Sixth District congressional seat currently held by Republican Bob Goodlatte, met recently called a “horseback view.” “It’s just a brief impression, but it speaks volumes,” [...]
Vanke: ‘Both parties’ part of the problem in Washington
Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Republicans are talking tough on federal spending and the national debt right now, but where we they just a few years ago when they had control of Congress and the White House? “Both parties, Republicans and Democrats, have left these issues unaddressed,” said Jeff Vanke, an independent on the [...]
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