Chris Graham: Is Goodlatte in primary trouble?
The short answer: no.
Killed any buzz on this column right at the start, didn’t I?
But I wouldn’t be surprised to see Karen Kwiatkowski pull some impressive percentage numbers, if nothing else, in her bid for the Sixth District Republican congressional nomination against 19-year incumbent Bob Goodlatte. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: A happy marriage between democratic socialism and corporate capitalism
Complaints are rampant about the draft 2012 federal Farm Bill. Farm subsidy recipients are enraged about proposed cuts, even as the same benefits would flow to them through direct payments and insurance offsets. Sustainable small farm and local food efforts complain that they are getting short shrift, and corporate agriculture is busily lobbying for its favorite programs. The 46 million Americans currently enrolled in the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Program may see reductions and restrictions, and we hear that starvation looms large. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: Answering Bob Goodlatte’s attacks
Congressman Bob Goodlatte’s first official response to this year’s constitutional conservative challenge to his 20-year reign of mediocrity is a false and misleading ad hominem attack on his Republican challenger.
Rather than stand and face his conservative opponent, a woman who served her country in uniform proudly for twenty years and witnessed the horrendous 9/11 attack from her Pentagon offices, Bob Goodlatte is spending a quarter of a million dollars to blanket the Sixth District of Virginia with lies.
And what are these lies? Read more
Challenger raises issue with Goodlatte on spending claims
Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte says he has opposed health-care reform since the earliest stages of the effort by Democrats that led to the passage of the reform law in 2010. Karen Kwiatkowski suggests that Goodlatte may think there are two definitions of the word “oppose.”
“That display of opposition was apparently just for us conservatives back home. When it came time to fund these programs, Bob Goodlatte voted ‘Yea,’ ” said Kwiatkowski, who is challenging Goodlatte for the Republican Party nomination in a June 12 primary. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: What does Bob Goodlatte really believe?
Bob Goodlatte tells us the Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Improvement Act (H.R. 4153) will improve EPA administration and effectiveness by giving states more control.
It will not.
Does the EPA overreach, cost too much, and use bad science in its pronouncements? Absolutely! It’s a government agency, isn’t it? Beyond this, it’s no mystery that the EPA, like the IRS and the FDA, will always go after the little guy before it will muster the courage to challenge politically connected corporations or other government agencies. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: A Visit to Freedomland
In the Sixth District of Virginia, we don’t much like government rules and regulations, especially when they don’t pass a common sense test. The Constitution speaks of our God-given rights to be secure in our persons, property and papers – to live free. This part of Virginia lives and breathes this valued sense of who we are – citizens always, and subjects to a distant capitol, never.
We tend not to trust politicians. We tend to understand that the longer these politicians are in office collecting benefits, creating legislative networks, and accumulating personal power, the more we, as Virginians, will suffer. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: Wanted … less government
Posted by afp on May 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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