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: 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: What Super Tuesday in Virginia really tells us
On March 6th, 5% of Virginia voters made the choice between a wealthy liberal from Massachusetts and a spunky Constitutionalist from Lake Jackson, Texas.
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
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
Andy Schmookler: People Power
One of my campaign slogans is “Let’s show how People Power can defeat the Money Power.” The issue of money in politics was the topic of the first piece I wrote that appeared in national media. This was back in the 1970s.
There is hardly a policy issue more central to defining what America will be.
Will we be true to the democratic vision, in which every citizen is entitled to an equal say in determining our destiny as a nation? Or will the inequalities of wealth our economy produces be allowed to corrode that democratic sense of justice, and effectively put our government up for auction? Read more
Andy Schmookler: American Values and the Christmas Season
Holidays offer us a chance to put our usual pursuits aside. But often, also, holidays provide a light to illuminate the meaning of our usual pursuits. So it is with this Christmas season and with our efforts to meet the challenge of the present crisis in America.
Over the generations, the holiday of Christmas has become deeply woven into American culture, expressing both the nature of our country and its ideals. Aside from the commercialization of the holiday, which of course reflects an important part of what America is about, there are also the deep moral values that gain expression in America during the Christmas season. Read more
Karen Kwiatkowski: What does Bob Goodlatte really believe?
Posted by afp on March 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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
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