Southwest Virginia Democrats

The next meeting of the Southwest Virginia Young Democrats will be held in conjunction with the annnual Acres of Democrats.

Sunday, September 3, 2006 @ 2 P.M.

New River Community College @ Edwards Hall

Young Democrats will gather at 12 noon to assist Boucher’s staff in preparing for the event. When the event concludes at 5 p.m., we will have a brief business meeting. Be there or be square!

The date for the second meeting of the Southwest Virginia Young Democrats has been slightly changed. The meeting will now be held on Saturday, August 5, 2006, at 4:00 PM, in Marion, Virginia.

The meeting will be held at:

Macado’s
142 E Main St
Marion, VA 24354

Bring your friends. Bring your neighbors. See everyone then!

p.s. Even if you are not a “young” Democrat, feel free to stop by and show your support for Southwest Virginia’s Young Democrats.

Update:
Here are some directions from Shawn.

Directions from Bristol:

1) Go North on I-81 for 38 miles
2) Take exit 44 and get on US-11 towards
Marion, and go 0.4 miles
3) Turn right at South Main Street and then go
1.9 miles, and it should be on your right

Directions from Wytheville:

1) Head South on 81 for about 25 miles
2) Take exit 45 and get on VA-16 North / South
Commerce Street towards Marion
3) Take a right at South Commerce Street, and
go about 1 mile
4) Turn left at East Main Street, and it should
be on your left

I have volunteered my house for one of the August 13 house parties for Webb and wanted to announce it here.

I won’t post my address and phone number here, but my email is public- doug@dougtv.com and please feel free to contact me there to get an invite with directions. The parties are to take place August 13 at 6pm. We ask you to please donate at the party but that is NOT a requirement to attend at all- please come for the party, the contacts and the word from Jim Webb and his campaign. And please bring friends, relations, independents, and people who don’t know Jim Webb and his hopeful message.

Thank you so much, Doug Garnett-Deakin

As of 1pm, Kos has written a new diary urging the DKos faithful to contribute to Webb’s campaign. Here’s the link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/27/133529/285

My own contribution to that thread has been to complain that I’ve seen little (or nothing) from the local party leadership to suggest that they are involved in Webb’s campaign. No LTEs, few yard-signs (I got mine from Brian Patton, thank you - I’m out now - can I get some more?). Although fund-raising is clearly important (especially against Allen’s millions), we need to make better use of existing party structure. And we need to coordinate better between the Boucher campaign and Webb’s appearances in the 9th-district.

Don’t forget folks that a fundraising breakfast for Congressman Rick Boucher will be held Saturday, July 15, 2006, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the John Fox Jr. House in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The cost is $25 per person, or $150 to sponsor the event. The food is always wonderful! Come out and support our Congresman and his re-election efforts. Thanks!

Bill Carrico, the Republican candidate running against Congressman Boucher here in the Ninth District, recently gave an interview to the Quality News Network. It is available here.

Some of his responses were very interesting, the others are mostly GOP talking points. He did, however, stop short of declaring that God had endorsed his candidacy this time.

After being asked about the immigration problem, Carrico says “we have got to build that wall around us,” seemingly suggesting that we need to build a wall around the entire country. I have heard proposals of building a wall across the southern border, but Carrico is the first candidate I have ever heard suggest that we need a wall between us and Canada and on our coastlines.

Carrico was also asked about the budget and he quickly proclaims that he thinks the budget should be balanced. On the follow-up, though, when asked if he would support revoking the recent tax cuts on just people making more than $500,000 per year if it would balance the budget, he declines to answer. Could that mean that Carrico has a few friends (i.e., campaign donors) who make more than half-a-million per year?

This interview confirms what most of us here in the Ninth District already knew – Congressman Boucher should easily win re-election.