Goodbye Goodlatte

After 10 largely unchallenged terms in congress Bob Goodlatte’s ability to compromise in DC without consequence back home must be the envy of every sly politician scheming to escape the annoying restraints of accountability a purifying election race might provide. But while an unattended house makes a bold thief, overconfidence often leads to carelessness and [...]

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Play by Play of Lynchburg Zoning Warrants Vote

Play by Play of Lynchburg Zoning Warrants Vote

A large crowd saw last night’s theatrical production at the City Council Playhouse – By Mateus Jewel Local players, “The Gang of Four,’ entertained us with the comic fantasy morality play entitled “Black is White. Or How a Warrant is not a Warrant.” Staged in three acts, the action stylized the conflict between the Mandarins [...]

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Lynchburg Tea Party Debate for 22nd Senate District Candidates Tonight

The Lynchburg Tea Party debate is tonight at Liberty University’s Law School at 7pm. VA6th will be blogging from the debate via twitter. Follow @VA6thWatchdogs

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Radtke Wins Shocking Bearing Drift Poll – And A Funny Afterthought

Radtke Wins Shocking Bearing Drift Poll – And A Funny Afterthought

Despite Bearing Drift’s best efforts to paint George Allen as the presumptive nominee for the Republican’s to take on Tim Kaine for the US Senate seat that Jim Webb currently has, the voters have other ideas (and so does Tim Donner, but more on that later). The results are shocking. Not shocking in that Jamie [...]

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Lynchburg City Zoning Warrant Vote Tonight

Lynchburg City Zoning Warrant Vote Tonight

Lynchburg city’s proposed zoning ordinance search warrants have drawn a lot of attention. It will be voted on at 730pm at City Hall, 900 Church St. Public comment will be welcomed and limited to 3 minutes per person. They were first brought to the public by Alicia Petska of the News and Advance here: http://www2.newsadvance.com/news/2011/may/11/planning-commission-oks-warrant-search-ordinance-ar-1033292/ [...]

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Lynchburg Faces Intrusive “Zoning Warrants” Vote

Lynchburg Faces Intrusive “Zoning Warrants” Vote

Lynchburg City Council will be voting on a controversial “zoning warrants” proposal by the Lynchburg Planning Commission. The proposal would give zoning officials the ability to get warrants to enter homes for non-criminal searches in an effort to find suspected zoning violations. While there, if they saw something they suspected (as persons not trained in [...]

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Where’s The Tea Party?

Where’s The Tea Party?

In all the news coverage of the “tax cut deal” it’s been Obama vs. The GOP, Obama vs. The Dems, The GOP vs. The Dems. Where’s the Tea Party in all of this? A friend of mine asked me on facebook: My question is where are all the “Tea Party Like” organizations in all of [...]

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Goodlatte Should Hold 6th District Committee Responsible

Goodlatte Should Hold 6th District Committee Responsible

The 6th District GOP Committee Treasurer Dexter Gaines has broken the state party rules and VA-6 Congressman Bob Goodlatte needs to hold him accountable. Article 7 Section C of the State Party Plan states that: “A member of an Official Committee is held to a higher standard of support for nominees of the Republican Party [...]

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Warner & Webb Bought for Food “Safety” Bill Vote

The “Food Safety and Modernization Act” passed the Senate on Monday. The problem? A complete overreach of government into people’s lives. The bill essentially has the ability to prevent people from growing their own food in their backyards. Yes, this should make you very angry. Virginians should be proud that their senators were bribed (er… [...]

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Judge Norman Moon… Moron!

Judge Norman Moon… Moron!

Judge Norman Moon tossed Liberty University’s Healthcare Lawsuit last night. he found that while they did have standing to bring it, his interpretation of the Commerce Clause allowed the healthcare bill. http://www.wset.com/Global/story.asp?S=13592362 Judge Moon should take a flying leap off his bench. There’s a big difference between regulating interstate commerce (economic actions people voluntarily take), [...]

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GOP State Central Plot Afoot!

There is a plot afoot to do away with VA’s convention to choose who the GOP Senate candidate will be. See story here: http://virginiafifthwatchdog.com/2010/11/state-central-committee-libertys-firing-squad/ Once again it looks like the RPV is up to it’s old tricks. On November 20th the State Central Committee is planning to decide on Primary vs Convention and with a [...]

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Bosiger Campaign Sends Email From “Glenn Beck”

Bosiger Campaign Sends Email From “Glenn Beck”

VA6th Watchdogs has received a screen shot of an email sent by the Bosiger campaign that is purportedly from “Glenn Beck.” Obviously it’s not, as evidenced by the fact that it comes directly from bosiger4clerk@gmail.com as plainly visible here: Really? Come on Shelia. Really? It’s one thing to try and say “Oh, all the missing [...]

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Update: Shocker! News & Advance Opposes Republican Candidate

See the announcement here… Or read the short summary here: Dear World: We’ve never ever ever ever ever ever ever before – in the history of the world EVER – endorsed a candidate for a local constitutional position because we pride ourselves on being impartial in local politics, but we are so terrified of the [...]

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Primer on Voter Fraud: What to Look For

Primer on Voter Fraud: What to Look For

From Pajamas Media: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/voter-fraud-watch-a-primer-on-what-to-watch-for/?singlepage=true There’s been lots of talk about voter fraud this election season. Already machines have purportedly preselected candidates and in other places, documents demonstrate non-citizens are registered to vote. Anyone who says voter fraud doesn’t exist has no credibility. I’ve covered elections for over 10 years. I’ve seen it over and over [...]

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Letter Re: Lynchburg Clerk of Court Race

Letter Re: Lynchburg Clerk of Court Race

The 6th District Watchdogs blog received this letter from Karen Foster who is currently in a fight to save her house from being illegally foreclosed on. Apparently this is a fairly widespread occurrence around the country. Obviously, Mrs. Foster will not be voting for Eugene Wingfield and will instead be voting for his opponent Ron [...]

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