Meet Roger Sharpe
Today Virginia Foxx is supposed to debate Roger Sharpe. It will be taped. No reporters will be present. It will only be broadcast late Sunday night at 10:30pm. It will be broadcast form a TV station that is not even located in the district and has only 10% signal coverage of the district in question.
This is the face of the Virginia Foxx democracy - unanswerable to the public.
Today, the Winston-Salem Journal is reporting on the details which are more akin to Soviet era propaganda than American democracy.
From The Winston-Salem Journal
With the election now less than a week away, 5th District U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx is still hiding from the public.
Foxx insisted that today's debate with her Democratic opponent, Roger Sharpe, be closed to news reporters. If she persists, she will thus prevent the district's news media from reporting on the debate until after it airs late Sunday night.
Just what is Foxx afraid of? She seems to be terrified of Roger Sharpe and a free press (see Bill of Rights for details)
Foxx has hidden from Sharpe throughout this campaign, in particular since she made herself look foolish in August. At that time, she returned from a short trip to Iraq with glowing reports about the course of the war. The nation's top military leaders made her look naive only days later when they told Congress just the opposite. She blamed the news media, the Journal in particular, for her humiliation and has refused to talk with the Journal since. Instead she sends her spokesman - a polite young man - out to take the questions she won't answer and to take the heat she can't stand.
And just like her personal savior, George W. Bush, she doesn't feel she needs to answer the voters on her record.
We are in the home stretch and the campiagn is asking for $20 from everyone, please donate to Roger. Let me tell ya, every penny counts in this last week of backstabbing by Virginia Foxx.