Introducing Rick Waugh for Congress (VA-7) (Contra Cantor)

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Wednesday July 21, 2010 · 7:56 PM PDT

2010/07/21 · 19:56

Hi folks,

I’ve been a long-time reader and occasional contributor to Daily Kos. Lately, I’ve been volunteering for Rick Waugh, who is the Democratic nominee in the 7th District of Virginia running to unseat Eric Cantor. Here is a statement from Rick, who will be liveblogging on Daily Kos on Wednesday, July 28, at 12:00 p.m.

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I'm Rick Waugh and I'm running for Congress

Hi, my name is Rick Waugh and I'm running for Congress in Virginia's 7th Congressional District. I'm challenging Republican Eric Cantor to hold him accountable for his record of obstruction and pay-for-play politics. I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself to the Daily Kos community and to ask you for your help.

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 10:27 PM PDT

2008/10/28 · 22:27

At my university in Virginia, the Introductory Economics class (1,000 students strong) is being given an exam on Election Day from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (close of polls). Students fear these exams and study intensely for them because admissions to the Commerce School depends, in large part, on doing well in Intro Econ.

The course professor is not willing to let students postpone the exam in order to vote, nor will he let them postpone the exam to volunteer in getting out the vote. This even though there is already a scheduled make-up time available to students with a "valid" excuse!

The Professor is a well-known conservative economist.

Does this smell as rotten to you as it does to me?

creweeny

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Sunday October 19, 2008 · 10:36 PM PDT

2008/10/19 · 22:36

So I wasn't quite physically assaulted, and I don't think I'm liable to get a call from Barack anytime about this, but man did I have an interesting experience canvassing in Virginia today.

creweeny

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 8:39 PM PDT

2008/10/17 · 20:39

Kossacks,

Its 11:30 on a Friday night, what Obama office are y'all at? Discuss . . .

creweeny

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 7:03 AM PDT

2008/09/24 · 07:03

Just so you don't get lost in the McCain's anti-NYT word blizzard, I wanted to put this out there.

creweeny

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Sunday August 24, 2008 · 10:10 AM PDT

2008/08/24 · 10:10

"I am grateful for the fact that I have a wonderful life, [and in particular for the fact that I didn't have to do any work for it.]"

creweeny

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Sunday July 27, 2008 · 10:07 PM PDT

2008/07/27 · 22:07

The Washington Post just uploaded a nice article on the Obama campaign's efforts to expand the African-American vote.

This article resonates with me a whole lot. I've been spending a lot of my time registering voters in central Virginia and I think the article does a fairly good job of depicting some of the challenges involved not just in registering African-American voters but in registering impoverished voters generally. However, in this diary I want to mostly focus on impoverished African-Americans.

This isn't a post containing a point-by-point rundown of my preferred way to chastise or shame people into registering to vote when they are reluctant to do so.

While I do try to persuade people to register, and will mention what I say in my attempts, I find there are times when the means by which I persuade shade into the disingenuous.

I'm really curious if other people have any of these same sentiments as a result of their experiences.

creweeny

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Friday July 25, 2008 · 11:47 AM PDT

2008/07/25 · 11:47

John McCain's mind is stubborn, as is his sense of honor.

But his honor is brittle stuff indeed.

Honor, which I understand to be an adherence to some perceived set of universal principles of righteous conduct whether by a person or a nation, has a deontological logic to it. But it is blind, as is McCain, to the perverse consequences of its application to policy.

This brittle honor allows McCain to insist we stay in Iraq, while sending more troops to Afghanistan, and at the same time suggesting that genocide should not be permitted by the United States. This unthinking honor cannot acknowledge the resource constraints we face as a nation and the demands to choose amongst priorities.

creweeny

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Saturday July 19, 2008 · 9:05 PM PDT

2008/07/19 · 21:05

The Washington Post editorial team, which loves to spend its column space sneering at Barack Obama, came out with a truly pathetic editorial today.

Read it here, if you can stomach it.

creweeny

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Wednesday July 16, 2008 · 9:58 AM PDT

2008/07/16 · 09:58

I just wanted to note the incongruity of McCain giving an education speech on a day when Obama was delivering a major speech on national security.

This is coming after a day in which the press was focused on the Afghanistan / Iraq back-and-forth, and on a day when that focus is unlikely to change.

I think McCain largely ceded Obama the narrative for the day, in which Obama made a powerful speech about the need to reorient our national security strategy toward defending against nuclear, biological, and information infrastructure threats to our society.

The more Obama gets to make big speeches with merely tart press releases in response from the McCain side, the more he will begin to close the gap on the Commander-in-Chief question.

creweeny

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Thursday July 03, 2008 · 9:48 PM PDT

2008/07/03 · 21:48

Its amazing to me how little commentary there has been on McCain's brief visit to Colombia.

During the day of the visit people were trying to make sense of why McCain would go to Colombia, a country that rarely grasps the imagination or stokes the emotions of the American public, in the middle of the Presidential campaign in which the main issues have little to do with South American policy.

And then of course there ended up being a stunning hostage rescue operation that afternoon that transfixed Colombia and that was ready to be sold in a nice anti-terrorism package on American evening news with none other than John McCain in a guest-starring role.

What a coincidence!

creweeny

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Tuesday June 17, 2008 · 10:22 AM PDT

2008/06/17 · 10:22

As I have canvassed Virginia for the last several months, one of the things that I've discovered is how horrendously unjust the Commonwealth is regarding felon voting rights.

I discussed this issue at length in a previous diary. In Virginia, one felony and you never vote again. This in a state with a broken negligent defense system, where the dollar cutoff for felony larceny hasn't changed in decades, and where the number of felons has increased by an order of magnitude in a generation.

The upshot is that more than a quarter (more likely about a third) of adult African-American men are disenfranchised.

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