Daily Archives: August 7, 2009

List of Townhall Meetings

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Congress needs to hear from you. All across America, Congressional townhall meetings have been packed with many who are angered by Congress and Barack Obama’s universal health care plan. They have heard quite an earful, and stirred up angry comments from the Democrat leadership in Congress. Listen to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments compare those who attend these hearings to voice their dissent as “carrying swastikas.”

Here is a list of townhall meetings here in Virginia, where you can voice your dissent and prove to Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress that this health care bill is a disaster that will take away our liberties to choose health care coverage that is right for our needs.

Virginia Townhall Meetings
Rep. Bobby Scott
Monday, August 10, 2009
Small Business Symposium
8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.
Imani International Center, 1501 Decatur Street, Richmond, Virginia
Call (757) 380-1000 to RSVP

Rep. Tom Perriello
• 08/06 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Chatham Middle School, 11650 Highway 29 N., Chatham, VA, 24531

• 08/07 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Halifax High School, 310 High School Circle, South Boston, VA, 24592

• 08/08 11:00 AM – 01:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Bedford Elementary School, 806 Tiger Trail, Bedford, VA, 24523

• 08/10 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Ruckersville Elementary School, 105 Progress Place, Ruckersville, VA, 22968

• 08/11 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Charlottesville High-MLK Performing Arts Center, 1400 Melbourne Road, Charlottesville, VA, 22901

• 08/17 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Fluvanna County School Board Office, 14455 James Madison Highway, Palmyra, VA, 22963

• 08/18 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Charlotte Court House, 250 LeGrande Avenue, Charlotte Court House, VA, 23923

• 08/19 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Kenbridge Community Center Auditorium, 511 E. 5th Avenue, Kenbridge, VA, 23944

• 08/20 05:30 PM – 07:30 PM: Tom In Your Town – The Nelson Center, 8445 Thomas Nelson Highway, Lovingston, VA, 22949

• 08/21 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Mecklenburg County School Board Office, 175 Mayfield Drive, Boydton, VA, 23917

• 08/22 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Tiger Express, 137 W. Hicks Street, Lawrenceville, VA, 23868

• 08/24 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Buckingham Middle School Auditorium, 1184 High School Road, Buckingham, VA, 23921

• 08/25 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Prince Edward Middle School Cafeteria, 35 Eagle Drive, Farmville, VA, 23901

• 08/26 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Cumberland Restaurant, 1465 Anderson Highway, Cumberland, VA, 23040

• 08/27 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Victory Hall, 401 Valley Street, Scottsville, VA, 24590

• 08/28 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Campbell County Technical Center, 194 Dennis Riddle Drive, Rustburg, VA, 24588

• 08/29 11:00 AM – 01:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – The Franklin Center for Advanced Learning, 50 Claiborne Avenue, Rocky Mount, VA, 24151

• 08/31 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM: Tom In Your Town – Appomattox Community Center, 220 Community Lane, Appomattox, VA, 24522

Rep. Jim Moran
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Howard Dean to Join Rep. Moran for Town Hall on Health Care Reform Efforts
7:00PM – 9:00PM, Doors open at 6:00PM
South Lakes High School, Auditorium, 11400 South Lakes Dr., Reston, Virginia
(703) 971-4700

Rep. Rick Boucher
Public Town Meetings on Health Care Reform:
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
9:00 AM Edwards Hall, New River Valley Community College, Dublin, Virginia

Thursday, August 20, 2009
9:00 AM Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, Abingdon, Virginia

You can also schedule meetings with your Representatives, who are not listed above as having town hall meetings.

Ken Cuccinelli is still waiting on 12-Debate Response from Steve Shannon

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Ken Cuccinelli still has not heard from Steve Shannon whether he will accept Cuccinelli’s request for 12 Debates.  Meanwhile, Shannon continues to play “dodge ball” and refuses to answer.  The big question is what does he have to hide?  Is it a lackluster record?  Is he afraid to debate the issues facing the office of the Attorney General?  Below is Cuccinelli’s letter to Shannon:

Steve:

I appreciate your “prompt” reply to my initial debate challenge that I sent on July 13th.

I was a bit surprised however to read your list of “agreed” upon dates in your letter. For starters, the date for the Prince William Committee of 100 (PWC 100) debate was entirely false. We were still working with the PWC 100 as recently as this morning to settle on a date.

PWC 100 debate organizers told my staff this afternoon that your campaign said you released an inaccurate date because you just wanted to say you had agreed to certain debates instead of listing “TBA” for the date.

And WTOP was pretty surprised to hear of your assertion that they had scheduled a debate. Mark Plotkin, the presumed moderator, confirmed this over the phone with my staff this afternoon and apologized (though HE had nothing to apologize for).

Steve, what’s going on here? I’ve never known you to just abandon common courtesy like this – and I don’t mean courtesy to me or my campaign, I’m talking about all of these third parties that you’re yanking around. This is still Virginia and I think Virginians reasonably expect more professionalism than what we’re seeing in your latest stunt (this is an actual “political stunt,” unlike my request to call a special session to deal with a real problem in our criminal justice system which you called a “political stunt”). Could this be because you’re feeling the heat from voters for not debating me? And suddenly you’re trying to give the impression of activity?

If you were so desperate to release a debate schedule with nonexistent dates, you should have just invited me to debate you in person while you were filming your debate with your dog.

I’m curious, how many takes did you have to go through until you got your dog to bark at just the right moment? Don’t you think the time you spent debating your dog would have been better spent speaking to voters about substantive issues they care about?

I ask you Steve, if you have enough time to be filming web ads with dogs, why don’t you have enough time to debate me before October?

You’ve provided a list of 3 debates. These three take place in either Northern VA or Richmond. We’ve only debated once so far, and that was in Virginia Beach in an unpublicized appearance that you only FINALLY agreed to two days before it happened (you remember, if I didn’t agree to your restrictions, you weren’t going to debate). What about debating in Southside, Roanoke, the Shenandoah Valley, Eastern Virginia and Southwest? I’ve been taking my campaign to every corner of the Commonwealth for over a year now, why won’t you join me there?

The point of my original 12-debate challenge was to take us around the Commonwealth so that we would have the opportunity to address voters in every corner of Virginia and talk about the issues they care about. Those issues differ from one part of Virginia to another.

So I am going to ask you again. Why won’t you accept our 12-debate challenge? What are you so afraid of?

Sincerely,

Ken Cuccinelli

Time to man up, Steve, and DEBATE!