Bob McDonnell's Teabagger Army

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Monday April 12, 2010 · 8:03 PM PDT

2010/04/12 · 20:03

This is an email currently being circulated to Virginia Teabagger groups, seeking suggestions for nominations for people of wingnutty leanings to be added to some of the 900-odd committees, groups, commissions & c. set up by the state of Virginia, and staffed by Bob McDonnell.

If you or anyone you know is a decent Virginian with a pulse, I recommend nominating them instead.

http://https://www.vita.virginia.gov...

Included for your delectation is the email this was originally taken from.

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Saturday February 20, 2010 · 4:12 PM PST

2010/02/20 · 16:12

In the first district of Virginia, established political forces have been dealing with the tea baggers since the inception of their movement. One frail elderly woman stalked out of a meeting with our representative, Rob "Gormless Drip" Whitman (R-VA, 1st district), sputtering about Revealations 3:16.

This was entirely cryptic to most members of the audience, but a sympathetic reporter translated the verse as "you are neither hot nor cold"...
the Teabagger's objection to Whitman isn't his extremely conservative voting record, but his failure to be an overt and aggressive rightwing asshole. A few days later, state delegate Albert Pollard won the district (by one vote in Northumberland County), mostly by dent of being a known quantity, a good boy, and someone who is "for the bay" in about that order. Acting like the heir to the realm, regardless of where you came from, appears to be the key to winning elections in VA.

Dirty Business in the Dirty South

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Wednesday August 27, 2008 · 8:12 PM PDT

2008/08/27 · 20:12

I found this article of interest-

It describes a county in Mississippi with a major electrical hardware manufacturer with a partially union- partially immigrant/illegal labor force. After some complaint to ICE, all the mexican employees are rounded up for immigration hearings. At first glance, there appears to be a good bit of acrimony to go around: union complaints that illegals are being promoted and scheduled preferentially, minor complaints that unions are pressuring immigrants to join the union.

The pressure consists of union reps showing up at their houses, offering them gimmie T-Shirts, and saying that they will make more money if they join the union.

Uh, that doesn't exactly sound like an offer you cannot refuse...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

The article implies some collaboration between management and ICE, leading to the sneaking suspicion management went with their suggestions when it started becoming apparent that formerly mexican/guatemalan workers were actually joining the union.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

Ethics and the V.A. gov. race

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Wednesday September 14, 2005 · 11:03 PM PDT

2005/09/14 · 23:03

Jerry Kilgore, the reclusive republican canidate for the virginia gov. office, has been bringing out the worst in me.

I have a disgust for the man. He pitches some of the strongest rightwing economic crud ever. Grover Norquist has had as much to do with this creep's intellectual development as he has with Rove's, if not more.

He's a weasel about everything in public, but pro-life in all his actions.

He comes from a far-rural county, off the I-81 corridor, and his mother runs the entire elections system in the area. Read More

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Bob McDonnell's Teabagger Army

A couple of teabagger emails (VA interest especially)

Dirty Business in the Dirty South

Ethics and the V.A. gov. race