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There was the actual debate, and then there was the debate about the debate. The winner of the debate about the debate was no contest. The commentariat made it clear across the spectrum that the feeling is that Mitt Romney won the first of three presidential debates in the 2012 cycle.
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The good news for Sixth District Democratic Party nominee Andy Schmookler: He got his debate schedule with Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte. The bad news: It’s likely that almost nobody, relatively speaking, will actually see the debates.
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The campaign of Sixth District Democratic Democratic Party congressional nominee Andy Schmookler issued a press release on Thursday to “ask” Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte a series of questions.
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The NFL is sure proving its point to the officials’ union. Oh, yeah. We’re going to win this battle. We can play the game without you. Uh, huh. You can play the game. The game in question is a shadow of its former self, a joke without a punchline, but it’s still being played.
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Mr. Goodlatte’s people say he’ll consider the terms of a debate with me when his schedule gets clearer after Congress recesses. When will that be? The end of September, Goodlatte’s spokesman says.
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Bob Goodlatte’s campaign says Democrat Andy Schmookler is engaging in a campaign of “class warfare.”
Schmookler’s response: “This tired old accusation provides a clear view of the moral bankruptcy of the politics practiced by Bob Goodlatte and today’s Republican Party.”
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After my press conferences at the beginning of August challenging Bob Goodlatte to debate, I was pleased that he accepted. But it is far from clear whether Mr. Goodlatte is willing to debate in a way that serves the people
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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…
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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…
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Andy Schmookler is running uphill, perhaps, but he’s running just the same. The Mount Jackson Democrat is challenging likely Republican nominee Bob Goodlatte, a 20-year incumbent, in the Sixth District congressional race. It’s not easy to be a Democrat in the heavily Republican Sixth, which stretches from Shenandoah County in the north to Roanoke to…
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