Addresses Amherst Democrats
Locality Population
Lynchburg (part) 41,719
Amherst Co. 32,353
Fluvanna Co. 25,691
Prince Edward Co. 23,368
Goochland Co. 21,717
Buckingham Co. 17,146
Appomattox Co. 14,973
Cumberland Co. 10,052
Louisa Co. (part) 9,166
Total 196,185
Ideal size: 200,025
Deviation -1.9%
Ideal size: 200,025
Deviation -1.9%
Earl Cheatham
Earl Cheatham is the Vice Chairman of the Lynchburg Democratic Party and it was great to meet him. We are all members of the new 22nd Senate District and will be working together on many things in the future. We look foreward to great times with this new partnership.
Steve Pazmino
Steve Pazmino coordinates the activities for Virginia's Democratic Senators. There are a total of 40 Virginia Senators and 22 of them are Democrats. That means Steve works for and with those 22 Democratic Senators. Slice it or dice it any way you please that is a heck of a big job and Steve says he enjoys the work so much he wishes he had a couple more Democrats to coordinate for and urged us here in Amherst County to work hard and give him more people (especially a Democrat from the new 22nd district).
Those of us who are members of the Amherst County Democratic Committee are partial to Bert Dodson and hope Mr. Dodson will run for the Senate seat in the 22nd district and frankly we have urged him to do so. We hope Mr. Dodson will give full consideration to becoming the First Senator in the newly created 22nd district of Virginia.
Bert Dodson and "Skipper" Fitts
Dr. Schmookler Challenges Goodlatte in the 6th District
Dr. Andrew Bard Schmookler
Dr. Andrew Bard Schmookler, 65, is vying for the 6th District Democratic nomination in May to run against Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte in 2012.
Dr. Schmookler is a writer living in Shenandoah County ,two miles from West Virginia near Orkney Springs. He spends time writing a blog at nonsoblind.org. He is married with three children.
“I feel that what I’m fighting for is the soul of America. …It is a grave crisis this country now faces,” says Dr. Schmookler.
He is using friends for his campaign staff and admits that “There’s no way I’m going to match [the funds] that the incumbent can raise.” He’ll get his message out hoping to level the playing field and making “David’s slingshot a match for his [Goodlatte] Goliath’s sword.”
He said his campaign is “deeply committed to truthfulness” something he believes is lacking in politics today. He says he is not a generic Democrat. He has an “unusual and powerful message.”
“The country is acting like it is normal politics when forces that we’re not confronting actually are degrading it.” His campaign theme reflects his message – “Let’s talk about the elephant in the room – It is a crisis, an emergency.” Schmookler said he feels “duty bound to do everything that’s in my power to protect the country from going down the tubes.”
He plans to bring out Goodlatte’s untruths about telling constituents he’s on their side when he is not. Schmookler called Goodlatte “a loyal foot soldier of the Republican army.”
Schmookler is running as a Democrat because he believes that the “Democratic Party is the only thing that can possibly protect us from the destructive force that the Republican Party has become.”
When it comes to voter apathy there are two kinds said Schmookler. One just doesn’t care and the other feels that anything they do won’t matter. His job will be to make them understand that the current state of politics is robbing them and their children of a future. Others feel “a form of despair.” They need to rise up and demand a government with integrity. “We’ve seen that on the streets of Cairo [Egypt] and Madison [Wisconsin],” said Schmookler.
Dr. Schmookler has conducted radio conversations, authored many books and makes regular speaking appearances.
He studied as an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he graduated summa cum laude in Social Relations in 1967.
Schmookler went on to earn his doctorate in 1977 at the University of California at Berkeley and The Graduate Theological Union, in a program specially created to accommodate his comprehensive theory of human history.
In 1984, Dr. Schmookler was awarded the Erik H. Erikson Prize by the International Society for Political Psychology. And in 1985, he was selected by Esquire Magazine as “one of the men and women under forty who are changing the nation.” The International Biographical Centre (of Cambridge, England) selected him, in 1999, as one the “Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century”.
Karen Kwiatkowski
Before Goodlatte gets to face Dr Schmookler he first has a republican primary challenge from Karen Kwiatkowski. She has some views only a Libertarian would love, and she's courting
the Tea Party vote from its right on some issues. She believes, for example, that the Patriot Act is unconstitutional and that the federal government's right to tax should be eliminated. She believes governors and state legislators should appoint U.S. Senators. She's a 50-year-old retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who was working in the Pentagon the day it was attacked by terrorists. So Goodlatte gets a challenge from his right in the republican primary and then a challenge from the left in the general.
3 Generations of the Taylor Family
Rodney Center left Rodneys daughter right and behind Rodney Mrs Taylor
Ned Kable, Mrs Taylor and Grand Daughter (center)
And Now Photos from the May Meeting for you to identify (no captions) except for our Amherst County Democratic Chairman David Burford who is seen with Skipper Fitts in the first photo.
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May 11th, 2011 Newt Announces Presidential Run
Newt is ready to run
Newton L. “Newt” Gingrich, was Speaker from 1995-1999 and a congressman from Georgia for two decades beginning in 1979, made public his candidacy Monday on his Facebook page and via Twitter, telling supporters to watch a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity Wednesday night where he promised to confirm his candidacy for president.
Sean is a GOP spokesman
Newt worked so hard for America that he had to have extra marital affairs to relax so infidelity is his special problem along with attacking others for doing the same thing he was doing at the same time he was doing it.
It had been widely anticipated he would announce in March but Newt continued his connections with several nonprofit political committees that are a source of funding for his day-to-day operations, while also actively raising money for his presidential bid. Running for president adds to republican incomes, it doesn't go the other way. Fox News who employeed every republican running for president or considering running has had to offer up the appearance that they are severing ties with these candidates.
Newt says “Be sure to watch Hannity this Wednesday at 9pm ET/8pm CT. I will be on to talk about my run for President of the United States.”
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“I have been humbled by all the encouragement you have given me to run. Thank you for your support,” he told his “friends” on Facebook, where the first commenter (of more than 300) on the page — identified as Joseph Nicholas — shot back later in the day: “Hopefully you won't cheat on your wife while you're running for the nomination, or have 84 Ethics violations against you,” a reference to his third wife and charges settled by the 67-year-old former congressman for $300,000.
In 2000, Gingrich married Callista Bisek, 45, a former congressional staffer with whom he had an affair while married to his second wife, which continued during the second term of President Clinton, as Gingrich, with enthusiastic Republican congressional support, spearheaded the impeachment of President Clinton.
President Clinton was everything Newt wanted to be
When Clinton survived impeachment and the Republicans lost seats in the 1998 midterm elections, Gingrich abruptly resigned not only as Speaker but from Congress altogether, stating he was “not willing to preside over people who are cannibals.”
In modern times it is virtually unprecedented for a sitting president’s party to gain congressional seats in a midterm election. Yet Clinton accomplished the feat despite being under threat of removal from office had he been convicted under the articles of impeachment.
In March 2011 Gingrich told the Christian Broadcasting Network his hard work, love of country and devotion to his congressional duties had adversely affected his first two marriages, leading to
infidelity in both cases. He said that his conversion two years ago to Catholicism, his current wife’s religion — after observing what he referred to as the holiness of Pope Benedict 16th in 2008 — has given him a greater appreciation for the importance of religious faith in public life.
He lost every major confrontation with President Clinton after being swept into office as Speaker two years after Clinton was first elected president, including federal government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996, which caused his earlier popularity to fall dramatically.
Commenting on the presidential prospects of former First Lady, then-New York U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008, Gingrich told a television interviewer that in his opinion Mrs. Clinton “is one of the two most astute politicians” in the Democratic Party, and “the other one is her husband.”
Newt says Mormans are a godless cult
Gingrich faces an uphill battle in 2012. A week ago, a CNN poll showed he had only 10 percent support among Republican voters.
And a Quinnipiac University poll showed him running far behind potential GOP candidates, former governors Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee.
Huck is a Minister and Bass Guitar Player and will run if it doesn't affect his income
In the Quinnipiac poll, Gingrich had only five percent support, compared to Romney’s 18 percent, Palin’s and Huckabee’s 15 percent respectively.
Of the leading potential candidates, only former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty scored lower than Gingrich, with four percent. For any republican to buy Newt's line of BS they would have to be dumber than a river rock and only 10% of republicans fall in that category.
As long as you can make money by running for president Newt will be running.
He will turn 68 next month. If elected in 2012, he would be five months shy of 70 upon taking office, just four months younger than Ronald Reagan, America’s oldest chief executive, was when he assumed the presidency in 1981.
Gingrich has worked as a Fox News commentator in recent years and Fox News expects its paid commentators to run.
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