We really have to stop scapegoating the President for all our problems
In a recent Washington Post article about the Virginia Senate race, former Bob McDonnell communications director, Tucker Martin, and Ed Gillespie for Governor “strategistâ€, said “The reality of it is, in Virginia, until Trump is gone, it’s going to be very hard for any statewide Republican.â€Â Â
Martin’s statement is not uncommon among Virginia Republican leaders and the GOP establishment.  A few writers on this great blog believe that, too.
This defeatist attitude is grounded in the drubbing we got in 2017 and the fact Trump lost Virginia to Hillary Clinton in 2016.  I, a believer in Trumpism and Day One supporter of his in the 2016 campaign, acknowledged this on a few months ago on TBE that Ed Gillespie, Jill Vogel and John Adams – along with some 17 GOP delegates – were drowned in the anti-Trump wave (although I believe Gillespie needed to change the conversation which he did not). Â
And, this fall, not just in Virginia but other states, we may see another anti-Trump wave with millions of professional class voters flocking to the polls to vote out any Republican just to “send Trump a message.† Our chances of defeating Tim Kaine for a 2nd term in the Senate are not good, and we also may lose two House seats, by my estimate.
But this attitude that Trump is the problem defies the fact that even before Trump stepped on the 2016 campaign stage, Republicans were losing statewide in Virginia. Â
These party leaders and folks in the “Never Trump†crowd seem to forget that Gillespie lost to Mark Warner for Senate in 2014 and in 2013, when we nominated probably the most principled conservative slate for Governor (Cuccinelli), Lt. Governor (E.W. Jackson) and Attorney General (Mark Obenshain), we lost all three – the first time Republicans failed to win a statewide constitutional office since the early 70s. Â
Barack Obama won Virginia in 2008 and 2012, carrying into the Senate Mark Warner and Tim Kaine in each election.  In 2006, George Allen lost re-election to the Senate. No Republican has won a U.S. Senate race since John Warner in 2002.  In 2005, Jerry Kilgore lost the governor’s race and Warner and Kaine won election in 2001 – just a year after George W. Bush carried the state.    Â
Since 1997, the only time Republicans swept statewide was in 2009 with the famed “McBolliNelli†slate, an election won on bread-and-butter issues like transportation.  That’s where Gillespie failed in 2017.
But scapegoating Trump enables Republican leaders in Virginia to escape accepting responsibility for keeping Republicanism relevant and competitive. Â They also can avoid efforts to try to woo new voters, which I acknowledge is a challenge.
I have won four campaigns of my own in Loudoun County and worked on many others.  I have seen how Northern Virginia has morphed into what I jokingly call “North Jersey Virginia.â€
But the reality is Virginia has been changing demographically for years due to the influx of non-white residents (immigrants) and Northeasterners seeking jobs and lower taxes. Â Â The Republican Party of Virginia and local units have done very little to address this.
It is said you “cannot educate people during a campaign,†but you can certainly do outreach during off years. Â
You’d think Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads-area residents whose livelihoods depend on Defense jobs, or who moved here to escape Big Government, would like to know what hundreds of Republican councilmembers, supervisors, General Assembly members and members of Congress are doing to preserve our quality of life. Â
But instead, RPV is trying to talk to within (the grassroots)  — a desirable goal, I guess – but that is not going to make as much of a difference as reaching out seriously to “New Virginians.† Â
California’s state party is doing that now with its “New Way†effort  – something that should have been done years ago, to be frank.       Â
“Outreach†to focus groups of New Virginians also means talking to Muslim, Indian, Asian and African voters who may be skeptical of us due to Trump’s tough border protection policies, but those policies ensure are designed to ensure we are not a nation of dependents and low-wage workers.  Â
Trump’s infrastructure efforts can significantly help with the oppressive traffic congestion in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. Better trade deals and the steel tariffs help our coal miners.
Finally, let’s be real.  Trump is running for re-election in 2020  and at this point, there is no decent Democrat challenger to stop him from getting a second term.  A GOP primary challenge to him is being discussed – but how often does an incumbent president lose the nomination of his party?  Will this standard bearer be Jeff “the†Flake of Arizona? Do you really think Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio can raise the money and if they get the nomination,  captivate Democratic voters the way Trump did in 2016? Not likely.
But in Virginia, we have a problem that ONLY our party and its electeds can solve.   If we continue to scapegoat, and fail to reach out meaningfully, Republicans will not win statewide again and Virginia will become a one-party liberal state like New York, New Jersey, Maryland or Illinois – regardless of whether Trump is president or not.    Â
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Hmmmmm. Ken Reid for RPV chair?
This author is EXACTLY right.
The Virginia Republican party would rather lose than support a status quo Republican. They made excuses for losing with Cuccinelli when the GOP refused to support him at all.
They made excuses for losing the state for Hillary when they bad mouthed Trump.
While Cuccinelli made a mistake in “jumping the line” instead of cooperating with Bolling and the party, the party would rather lose than elect an actual conservative.
Or Trump supporter.
The GOP makes no effort to attract new voters. Instead, they ignore or attack Congressman Brat, instead of advertising his conservative and libertarian ideas.
The Gillespie nomination is the perfect example of the GOP’s failure to implement new ideas or attract new candidates. As long as Fairfax outnumbers all of western Virginia, the GOP MUST nominate people that can rally the voters.
It didn’t take long for the U.S. to rack up another trillion dollars of debt, Latest $1 trillion jump took about six months
Published: Mar 20, 2018 12:48 p.m. ET
By Robert Schroeder — CBS MarkjetWatch, Fiscal policy reporter
It has taken a little more than six months for the U.S. national debt to grow by a trillion dollars, a quick clip that has little precedent over the nation’s recent history.
Last week, the debt hit $21 trillion for the first time, rising from the $20 trillion mark it notched on Sept. 8. The debt is guaranteed to go higher, with President Donald Trump having signed a debt-limit suspension in February, allowing unlimited borrowing through March 1, 2019. Economists expect wider deficits to result from the tax cut Trump signed in December.
While a trillion-dollar increase over roughly six months isn’t unprecedented — there was one in 2009, during the Great Recession, and another in 2010 — it’s certainly fast.
The national debt exceeded $20 trillion in September 2017, after taking 20 months to add a trillion dollars. A debt limit that had been in place since March 2015 was raised in March 2017, and again on Sept. 8, 2017.
Fartherback, however, such trillion-dollar increases took longer: 43 months, for instance, near the end of Bill Clinton’s first term. The first time the nation’s debt hit $1 trillion was in October 1981, during Ronald Reagan’s first term.
Looking ahead, analysts see the nation much deeper in debt. The Committee for a Responsible Budget projects trillion-dollar deficits returning permanently by next year, and debt exceeding the size of the economy within a decade.
http://on.mktw.net/2GQ8i8N
Ya think? Who was President again in 2009 and 2010?
You still playing that game? Paying attention to deficits only when the other party has the presidency? Tsk, tsk. You are smarter than that.
Deficits are deficits. Didn’t Trump promise to end this? Didn’t Republicans run on ending this? Why isn’t it ending? Why is it getting worse?
Now the deficit limits are gone. Completely gone under Trump.
You reap what you sow.
Sauce for the goose and all that. Brushing back a fundamental transformation will take time and resources. Deficits only matter when it’s not your guy right?
I’m happy with the Donald, the best is yet to come with his second term.
Does Putin have pictures of Trump having sex with a goat?
That is the crap that has to stop.
Can you say Senator Kaine wins reelection?
And other Republicans will loose,
then Trump will be forced to work with Dems.
Then we see more tears but your just gonna get your face wet.
The Republican Party of Virginia has lost the suburban/urban vote; women; young people(the next generation of voters), people of color (brown and black). You still have the old white men and white supremacists(Corey Stewart’s base). Plus has virtually no support in vote rich Northern Virginia.
You are incorrect.
I am a Independent.
Immigrants don’t bother me.
What bothers me about them is the politician that does not make them play by the same rules.
If the representative lacks that desire than he is out to exploit them for his financial or political gain.
My name was on this article as the author. I am not the author, Ken Reid is. Sorry for the error.
Is that a crack of light I see dawning at the Bull Elephant? I certainly hope so because in point of fact all is far from lost for Republicans here in Virginia and that includes it’s major voting tier populations centers. The radical left wing social justice mix that is now the Democratic parties only voter theme is not going to enthrall the working urban middle class of the state regardless of Democratic delusions to the contrary.
Republicans that return to the bread and butter economic pocketbook issues that were the major theme of Reagan Republicanism for years will see the beginnings of some success even in the most stritent of Democratic districts. We don’t need to win every major urban tier vote but just enough of a plurality (someone on this blog used a figure of 42% which was actually close to the 45-46% figure I estimated recently looking back over several statewide Republican losses) to give solid candidates with a general voter range of appeal a decent electoral shot.
So besides party messaging and refocused outreach to new demographics of middle and working class voters Republicans also need to start to shy away from the typical existing state party faction’s driving motivation to constantly put forward their most current shining example of true representative purity of their political ideologies generally associated with a strident opposition to some other faction’s opinions and start being solely refocused on encouraging and supporting candidates that the voting base sees as representative of their needs. What is a reasonable method to start this candidate refocusing effort?
One option I would suggest is a reorganization of the RPV itself starting with a major focus on decentralization of operations away from discordant Richmond influences and isimply doing away massively dysfunctional entities like the parties State Central Committee that just encourages continuing party fractionalization. Place the parties support mechanisms at the local state district unit level. Commit to the empowerment of the local districts with real decision making powers and party management decision making functions where they need to be at the local voter level. Grow the district units DON’T strangle them with often arbitrary and inconsistently applied regulations that are too often ungrounded from local voter issues.
When how you are operating is constantly and consistently failing it is no outrageous or radical risk to try something new. No success is permanent (regardless of what the Virginia Democratic Party may believe) and no failure is fatal unless you fail to act and blame others for your results.
I think you are correct on local parties.
People desire to be part of the process but shy away from the top down leadership that knows nothing about the localities.
They walk away. They talk about it at a Friday night ball game, while out and about in their neighborhood.
One need look no further than what Susan Hogg (regular folk) did to Mike Rousseau in the Timberlake District of Campbell County
and now they want Delegate Byrons head on a spike.
Middle Class have no faith in DC or Richmond.
The sediment that is growing is;
move out of the way I’ll take care of these local issues myself, go back to where you came from you just want my vote.
I think you should take what you wrote and submit it to TBE as a separate blog article. Yoiu really make some great points.
This is a great article.
I’m a Virginian. All I see is blame and excuses from the RPV. God forbid that they support Dave Brat and other conservatives. They had their chances and blew it, thinking that they would have later chances. Nope. NOW, they have a minority. I predict Virginia is going to go the way of Maryland.
I agree with much of this post. It loses me here: “Finally, let’s be real. Trump is running for re-election in 2020 and at this point, there is no decent Democrat challenger to stop him from getting a second term.”
No decent challenger required, as the lot of scraggly new Virginia state representatives proves. It’s ABT — anyone but Trump. And the horse he rode in on.
The lines at the polls will be epic. The numbers will redefine electoral lines for years. It can only go downhill thereafter for Dems, so get ready by fashioning an appeal to the average Virginian. Until the RPV does, Dems will win elections for decades to come.
SBT is so right: Reps are bothered by other Reps as much as they are by Democrats. This Warmac-style hatred must end with unity focused on the middle, not the fringe. Carrying a rebel flag, hoping people will vote on monuments and the names of dead generals is futile.
I thought it to be very interesting that during the Republican Primary Republicans demanded that Trump sign a Pledge of loyalty to support the Republican nominee.
Today here we stand with the shoe on the other foot and I expect that the same Republicans back then demanding the Pledge of support ate the same not supporting Trump.
I think the holes in their Chinese made shoes need to stop letting their stink out.
These Republicans can’t blame Trump today, Democrats tomorrow and expect a train load of voters to support them.
Forest Gump can see right through that.
I have been referring to Northern Virginia as ” The Sixth Burough of New York” for the past 2 decades.
How’s that working for you? Any progress to report?
He’s right.
“You’d think Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads-area residents whose livelihoods depend on Defense jobs, or who moved here to escape Big Government, would like to know what hundreds of Republican councilmembers, supervisors, General Assembly members and members of Congress are doing to preserve our quality of life.â€
I think you need to re-read this paragraph very slowly and then ask yourself why Republicans who attack all government 100% as evil might be losing in these regions.
We dont attack all of government, and there lies the rub. Voters due to Democratic spin and identity politics make it look like Republicans dont support schools, transportation, social services, etc. Not so. We have Republican boards in Loudoun and Prince William and other counties and the schools are good and roads are being built. This is why I am promoting outreach sessions (I actually wrote this article, not Jeanine.). I firmly believe these New Voters as i call them have no idea the good Republicans are doing -with government. And, we support the military more than the Dems.
Your post is self-contradictory. On the one hand you blow the old Republican dog whistle that these people are migrating here to escape “Big Government†and on the other hand you correctly state that they are here for the government jobs (ain’t nothing “bigger†than DoD, y’know). Then you say the same Republicans who want to cut government spending are actually working to “preserve†their quality of life.
But in the end since your position is so conflated, the louder voice will prevail. I’ve run into plenty anti-public school Republicans (and vocal Republicans at that) over the years here in Loudoun. Further, it’s clear that this anti-government current runs deep in the Trump GOP wing. You may feel like it is unfair but that is the face of the Republican Party these days. It’s a big reason why you are loosing ground in the DMV. If you want to change the perception of the GOP in this area, you have to get rid of the right-wing anti-government nut jobs first.
Good examples with the schools, and the fascinating twist of so-called “conservative” conservation approaches, using powers of government to keep counties rural through, ahem, CENTRAL PLANNING. Zoning, building codes, tax-funded conservation easements.
No better friend of the extended powers of government than Virginia Republicans.
Attacking schools is never a good strategy, no matter how you play it. You may as well target kids. It’s as dumb as electoral politics can get, but conservation easements are a close second, right out of Chairman Mao’s handbook.
With the current leader of the GOP calling Putin (aka Stalin-lite) to congratulate him on his “re-election victoryâ€, conservation easements and likewise issues may currently be overshadowed a tad.
You are off base at least in Prince William County, your future Senate candidate, Corey Stewart, has starved the schools, overcrowded classrooms at every level, 210+ trailers with outhouses, second graders using an outhouse doesn’t exactly equate to “good”.
Ms. Martin, if I were grading term papers I would give yours an A+ . Good job on topic selection, explanation, and conclusions. When you have facts, reasoning, and honesty on your side, you leave little room for argument, although I’m looking forward to reading the rebuttals.
Thank you but unfortunately I was not the author. That was an error. Ken Reid wrote it.
Thank you, I’ve revised my comment accordingly.
Before George WH Bush was elected President in 2000 Republicans could and did win council seats in the city of Alexandria. During the Bush years no Republican came even close to winning. After Bush left office, Republicans elected 2 members of the city council. The democrats on the council than changed the council’s election to November from May.
You LOST the damn demographic battle. Jeanine is right to you idiot Never Trumpers. You were already losing statewide elections… Northern Va is lost forever. YOU ARE NOT GETTING IT BACK morons. It is completely like California. the coastal areas with the white liberals along with the Democrat Super Majority marching across the border every day can beat Republicans like a rented mule. Norhtern VA is like the coast of California and it is growing every day… then add the border crossers who have kids who are now voting Democrat and viola you lose.
As I have said here a millions times… the Democrat Super Majority walking across the border are not natural Republicans. Know what I saw the other day when driving in Nova… a truck with an El Salvador flag sticker and those Che Guevera silhouettes which are popular in California…
There’s your natural conservatives GOP Establishment dumb#$$es.
Exactly right.
Jeannie IS a never Trumper. She did not write this article
I think there’s some grey there, I’d put her closer to a #never-enabler and I would point out like that she is fair and gives time to Trump supporters in TBE.
I believe Jeanine to be a genteel Lady of the South and The Donald an abrasive new money Yankee from Queens, in New York City! These are probably not-so-simpatico personality types no?
Be nice because everyone has their own ‘Come to Trump’ moment.
You guys are mad because why?
Trump taking your imported dope?
Have the FBI going after your Human Traffickers for sex?
Taking your unskilled undocumented migrant farm labor?
Man up shovel your own snow , stop piling up the crap.
As a loyal Trump supporter I honestly admit what bothered me was when he mocked the handicapped journalist.
But now on this site you allow one of your writers Robert Kenyon to make fun and jest of Autism.
You should be ashamed of yourselves on that one.
Then in this story to say Cuccinelli is conservative is bull crap, no goat crap.
AG Cuccinelli allowed Commissioner Broadway to classify unlicensed contractors and illegal aliens as bona-fide independent contractors.
What about personal responsibility?
Why did the Cucci allow Bob for Jobs to remove the personal requirement of lived contractors off of my General Information Sheet stating;
“You are required to ensure that all subcontractors and all trade related individuals hold the appropriate license issued by DPOR”
So much for the crap Conservative talk, eh?
> ‘Northern Virginia has morphed into what I jokingly call “North Jersey Virginia.‒
I call it Southern Maryland. I’ll admit that both terms have merit, though from different perspectives.
Glad to see you depicting our President as a Goat.
Two weeks ago I referred to 5 Va Republicans as goat ropers (not Angus Cattle Farmers) No harm right fair is fair.
Did this site ever depict Obama as a goat?
Your going to cause Mr. Stewart to loose to the little tim.
A bunch of soft Jeff Snowflakes.
Some here have referred to Trump as a Clown.
Not so,
He is the Ringmaster of the three ring circus.
Only a circus Republican can stand with the Santurary providing Republican McDonnell and the war Munger Ed Gillespie.
Oh,
Didn’t Ed loose his first Va Senate election before Trump?
Hell yea!
I was TBE ‘ S first supporter of Trump.
We can even look back to a Fredericks story, I commented;
“If the Republicans don’t give me Trump in the Primary I will fish the New River in November”
On one of my jobsites in Dec. 2014
I also told my crew; “Trump is the only Pro-American Republican”
Fishing the New River any month of the year is quite preferable to politics, imo.
I do not support Republicans who are weak in their job performance as Cuccinelli was on illegal immigration then claim to be something different.
It makes me fighting mad and I do mean physically fighting mad.
1) Cuccinelli as Attorney General
was the “Boss” of how many attorneys on state payroll ?
2) Cuccinelli could have overseen approximately 200 employees at DPOR
3) Cuccinelli is to oversee our Commissioners and Dept Directors
4) Courtney Malvaux Commissioner of VOSHA/DOLI issued violations to illegal aliens and unlicensed contractors yet lacked the oversight to have these violations sent to DPOR for investigation.
I as a Licensed Contractor in Va have the *right* to a proper adjudication process and then to have these case heard before my Board of Contractors for the Licensed contractor breaking Va laws.
I made a severe mistake when I cast my vote for McDonnell and Cuccinelli, never will I be that stupid ever again. They played politics when McDonnell sent a letter to DHS for legal advice on what to do with illegal aliens they were picking up in traffic stops. Yet they were issuing them State violations.
I wonder how many legal Va employees were placed on unemployment under their rule. Right rule law for some to abide by but not others.
Not just an obstruction of justice but I bet they held back these violations from the Joint Legislative Audit Review Committee on Employee Misclassification.
Screw Gestapo
and Activist Administrations.
Sorry he was to busy hobnobbing with something else other than the rule of law.
Cuccinelli/McDonnell provided Santurary for illegal aliens as unlicensed contractors, they caused job loss, added to our debt and fostered an environment for payroll , tax and workers compensation insurance fraud.
Conservative my big butt.
It is not my fault their Commissioner of DOLI documented illegal aliens through State issued violations.
I wonder what the unpaid balance to Va. is from these violations under their Administration?
Mr. Stewart should get all of this on both Cuccinelli and Herring Administrations through FOIA.
Also under Cuccinelli/McDonnell we made voter ID law.
To bad they missed the boat on Identifying illegal aliens through their violations.
WE NEED A LAW FOR THAT.
I love your comment about the “Loyalty Pledge” they made Trump sign, but now, the party leaders want no such obligation . Say! You have some good stuff here. why dont you write it up an submit to tthe Bulle Elephant?
I like all of you here.
I am just a peasant though.
We are all Peasants on our GOP plantation.
What would General Washington have done if a troop was not loyal ?
YOU were a supporter of Trump from Day One???? Do. Not. Believe.
I actually wrote the article. There was a mistake in the byline and bio, which I alerted Jeanine about.
Thank you for letting me know.
WHAT!!!? Well there goes my belief of a crack of light of understanding from the editorial staff at TBE. Amusing but not unexpected. Anyway you penned an excellent article that more on this blog’s editorial should take credit for but sadly likely never will.
Well there goes my belief of a crack of light of understanding from the editorial staff at TBE. Amusing but not unexpected. Anyway you penned an excellent article that more on this blog’s editorial should take credit for but sadly likely never will.
Blaming RPV doesn’t work either. The fact is that the big tent is broken. Republicans are bothered by other Republicans as much as they are by Democrats. That’s bad.
The Big Tent is broken because is was built with imported poles and tarps made in China then imported by folks like that there Brian fellow from Bearings Adrift, the erected by unskilled, undocumented, migrant farm labor.
You guy better get in step or it will be 10 years before you have a glimmer of hope in the Presidency.
Republicans are causing Va to go Blue because they can’t lead.
A little harmless joke;
What kind of Ship don’t float?
Virginia Republican Leader-ship.
You’re wrong about that.
Among Republicans in the modern era, Trump is the most widely supported President since Ronald Reagan. 86% of self Identified Republicans support Trump, which is higher than both Bushes, Nixon, Ford, and even Ike. Only Ronald Reagan was better than Trump at unifying the Republican party..
The Nevers in the Republican party are just a small minority, which seems to be diminishing, but there have always been such minorities within both parties.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/trump-trails-only-reagan-among-recent-presidents-in-gop-love.html
But we cant win in Virginia and a number of states without attracting Dems and independents. in fact, this is how Trump won Pa., Wisconsin, Michigan. BTW, I actually wrote this article and have asked TBE to change it.
I call ya out on the need to attract D voters….How about mobilizing the conservative factions to be found everywhere other than the conclaves of liberals…Mobilize W Va. Central Va. We’re allowing NoVa., Tidewater Charlottesville to dominate at the polls..
I don’t disagree. If Republicans don’t mobilize Trump 16 voters in 2018, we’re toast in terms of retaining Congress. However, those were very infrequent voters. They turned out for Trump, but didn’t turn out (so far ) for Roy moore or in the Pennsylvania House special election. But there’s so much blood you can get out of a stone. Even if we registerd every unregisterd voter in conservative areas in the state, that is not enough votes to match the liberal-leaning electorate in Northern Virginia. Fact is no Repubican win statewide without carrying Loudoun and Prince William counties and this is where the outreach needs to be done with New Voters.
The point is that Trump’s appeal was not just a faction of Republicans. He already appeals to many Democrats too. He doesn’t have to move ideologically left to appeal to Democrats. The Democrats themselves have moved so far left that they are leaving behind some of their own in the middle, and those people find that Trump makes a lot more sense than Nancy Pelosi or Elizabeth Warren.
Sadly Steven – you are the most guilty of this offense (Republicans being bothered by other Republicans as much as they are by Democrats), and if there’s any doubt of it, just check your FB postings and articles on here. You sir spend way too much time trashing everyone.
SBT,
Should have been one of those youth baseball coaches that removes 3 out and let’s all the kids bat the complete order. He tries to make sure he has all his bases covered in his touchy feely writing.
The Nevers are more vehement and vocal in their opposition to the president, but they are also more delusional about their impact and their number. As a group they are no bigger than past minority factions within the GOP.
See http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/trump-trails-only-reagan-among-recent-presidents-in-gop-love.html
That’s because there are plenty of Republicans that are just as bad as Democrats.
From a conservative/libertarian perspective, there is little or no functional difference the McCain/Romney wing of the party and the Democrats.
True. I am not bashing RPV . I dont do that. I just wish they’d put their resources into outreach and if it doesn’t work, then fold tent and do something else. Again, I see the handwriting on the wall. it;’s been happening BEFORE Trump even announced his candidacy and if we don’t take action soon, we will become like the Republican Party of Maryland — a non entity. BTW I wrote this piece and asked for a correction.
I’ll bash the RPV for you. I’m sick of their excuses.
It’s not like they try to be bash-averse — hey, are they meeting at the HQ in Richmond or at the annex a coupla blocks away?
I have no idea.
It’s not at the HQ… It’s at a much more… conducive location.
A few days back we were discussing RPV Chairman’s job.
Many here agreed it to be fundraising, not to vet the Candidates.
Then either remove his email as contact or when you click on it redirects the person to a donor page.
Now we can move toward posting on the RPV site all concern should be directed to your local party Chair.
Post;
If you do not like feel your local party chair has listened to you in a warm , concerned manner we want to hear from you.
Lawrence hit the nail on the head the growth and the views of the local party should move up.
There should be some quality control.
This is not old news. Shapiro wrote in a piece (I want my Conservative Virginia Back)
You have caused some to go to the other side to get their issues addressed.
Surely you don’t expect to get elected and not be concerned with your constituents issues, do you.
Then the Rep should not pick up the phone to a donor for their viewpoint.
Speaking from previous experience.
Well said. We have to first admit that RPV is a clown car of drama queens
Just fundraisers and Americans that don’t want to work.
Hard to find Americans to work from the golf course