Given the Progress record of hilariously goofy endorsements [1, 2], let’s all steel ourselves for this year’s round. I’m calling it now: Warner and McCain.
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UVA graduation is this weekend (May 20th). Consider yourself warned. #
Theodore Roosevelt’s Albemarle retreat, Pine Knot, is looking to become more well known and accessible. #
Tablet computers are working out pretty well in city schools. #
VDOT got seven bids for the Western Bypass, but they’re secret until one is selected in June. #
One small car part is the sole evidence of who killed a Waynesboro woman in a hit-and-run on Saturday. The community at Jalopnik figured it out—it’s from the grille of a 2003 Ford F150 XL. #
Does the city have the power to set the speed on the bypass so ridiculously low? Several people argue that it does not. #
Council has again shot down the police department’s request for funding to put CCTV security cameras all along the Downtown Mall. #
A little light reading: Charlottesville’s charter. These are the rules, set by the legislature, under which C’ville exists. #
The plan for Shoppers World has been made public. Stein Mart and DSW will moving in to the complex recently vacated by Whole Foods. #
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I stopped reading endorsement editorials over a decade ago becuase they only state which campaign slogans they agree with and I already know which slogans I agree with. It would be different if I learned something new about a candidate.
A weeek ago they ran an editorial
http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article/tv_debate_was_needed/29197/
taking Virgil Goode to task for skipping out on his televised debate. So who knows?
David Sewell, thanks for the link. “It would have been the only opportunity for voters in a wide audience to have seen incumbent Congressman Goode and challenger Tom Perriello square off against each other.” What a childish skewing of the political process. This is not a football game where you swill some beer and whoop and holler. The voters deserve a forum where issues are debated sanely and in depth.
“Two non-televised debates have been held in Danville and Charlottesville, and another is anticipated.
But a televised debate would have reached vastly more voters who deserve to see and hear the two men in action. ” What do they want, a striptease? Podcasts serve me well.
Mr. Perriello’s staff agreed initially to schedule a debate between Mr. Goode and him on the Schilling Show, but they later backed out. Instead, Mr. Goode and Mr. Perriello appeared on his show separately. I got to hear all I needed to hear by listening to both shows. I assume that Mr. Goode didn’t want to debate Mr. Perriello in what he perceives as Perriello territory and Mr. Perriello didn’t want to debate in what he perceives as Goode territory. Who, other than apparently the DP, says that candidates must avail themselves to any and every media outlet that makes a request? I repeat my initial post.
I’m curious, who was supposed to moderate the NBC29-sponsored debate?
Why would Goode want to debate? As a matter of fact the
debates are nothing but dog and pony shows. Nothing new ever
comes out of debates (if that is what you want to call them)
and watching them is a waste of time. Charlottesville and
Albemarle will support Perriello and the rest of the district,
which lives in the real world, will elect Goode for another
term.
Jogger,
Before you make that claim, you might want to actually
listen to the debates between Perriello and Goode…
It isn’t so much that new information is presented, but rather
it is instantly clear that Goode is completely out of touch with reality. There have even been suggestions that during some of the debates, Goode went so far off the deep end that people that came with holding his signs or wearing his buttons started lowering them or taking them off. Listening to the debates, I can imagine that happening. After all his years, you’d think Goode could at least show a basic level of understanding of foreign policy, instead he seriously claims the way to end the war in Iraq is to drill in ANWR…
I suspect that this was why he was reluctant to debate Perriello on television. Each time he debates, Goodes poll numbers slide among those witnessing the debate.