Fellow Democrat raises issue with Curren’s faith
“Do Augusta County Democrats have a death wish?”
That was what greeted me to the desk this morning, an e-mail note from a friend and Democratic Party strategist with a link to a story in today’s News Leader discussing 20th District House candidate Erik Curren’s religious beliefs and criticisms from fellow Democrat Tracy Pyles to the effect that someone with Buddhism among his beliefs is automatically fighting an uphill battle in the 20th. Read more
Can’t we all just get along? Yes, we can
Fellow Valley Democrats are crowing about how the local GOP is a house divided, but in so doing are pointing out the splinter in the other guy’s eye while missing the log in their own. I say that because in my view the cause of the Democratic Party here is no more unified than what we’re seeing out of local Republicans; and I know because I’m among those caught up in the not-exactly-friendly fire being volleyed back and forth. Read more
The Rumor Mill | Pyles, Curren and the 20th
I’m hearing in bits and pieces that Tracy Pyles, the Pied Piper of the reassessment opposition in Augusta County, made a late inquiry into what he would need to do to get in the contest for the Democratic Party nomination in the 20th House District, and that he isn’t entirely behind the man who ended up getting the nomination, Erik Curren of Staunton. Read more
A chance for us Dems to gain traction
The fight over the reassessments in Augusta County that I and many others here locally think are out of whack with economic reality isn’t about partisan politics. That’s what we keep hearing, anyway.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, if you ask me. Because the reason this isn’t about partisan politics is that we Democrats aren’t doing anything to make this about partisan politics. Read more
An obvious solution to the assessment controversy in Augusta
I reached out my hand to Arlie Wolfe. “How does it feel to be a millionaire?” I asked the Middlebrook man, who, for the record, isn’t really a millionaire, no matter what the piece of paper his wife, Joan, had in her purse had to say about the matter.
Arlie and Joan had bought their 400-acre farm property that backs into a mountain in the middle of Augusta County 10 years ago for $167,000. It was reassessed four years ago for $585,000. The piece of paper in Joan’s purse has it at over $1.6 million. Read more
Videocast | County residents meet to talk strategy on assessments fight
More than 600 Augusta County residents filled the Verona United Methodist Church Tuesday night for a meeting of Augusta Citizens Against Unfair Assessments. AFP editor Chris Graham reporting – with presentations at the meeting by local attorney Francis Chester and Augusta County Board of Supervisors member Tracy Pyles in their entirety. Length: 25:49. Read more
The Rumor Mill Says …
Posted by afp on March 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment
- That folks are already making moves regarding the 2010 elections in Waynesboro.
- That Bob Goodlatte might be in trouble in 2010.
- That there is more bad news in the offing at the News Leader. Read more
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