Betty was a member of the Amherst Co. Democrats and when she moved to Campbell Co. she transferred to their organization. Our loss was their gain as Betty is a super worker and dedicated to the Party. Betty runs the Campbell County Democrats Website just click it to visit.
You might not be able to tell but these ladies are hiding something and later I'll show you what it is. I'm getting ahead of myself so I'll start at the beginning.
Our Chairman is David Burford and below Tyee's picture is the little note he sent me.
Tyee Davenport
Margret Templeton and Chairman Carter Elliott
Carter called the meeting to order and opened with a prayer by Margret Templeton and then Betty Zieger unfurled the flag and the group stood crossed their hearts and recited the Pledge of Allegiance. We were a gathering of Democrats so eveyone knew the words and spoke them aloud. Republicans need a cheat sheet and usually just mumble and move their lips.
Tyee and Charles Wood
Carter handled the necessary business and moved to the point where our special guest was to be introduced. Because Betty has attended a training session and met Tyee Davenport, Betty presented her to the meeting.
Charles and Tyee during her presentation
Tyee gave a well organized and paced presentation which she opened for questions many times. We showed her no mercy as we pummeled her with all the problems we have in our local areas. Tyee stood up to and endured the onslaught and emerged the winner after fielding each question and offering solid workable solutions to our difficulties. All in attendance agreed that the state party had hired a champion in Tyee and that her knowledge and ability to deal with problems was indeed impressive. The materials she passed out will make their way to the next Amherst Co. Democratic meeting as she offered solutions to problems we have had under discussion. I will ask David to schedule a visit from Tyee for our group if at all possible.
Freda Austin, Carter Elliott, ???, Betty Zieger
You guys were great. My apoligies to all who were misidentified or not identified at all and to the gentleman who worked the lobby because the electric door was malfunctioning. I missed you completely. My shortcomings should in no way detract from the greatness of this wonderful gathering of Democrats. Thank You.
You're thinking he forgot, he's not going to show us what those ladies at the top of the page were hiding. How wrong you are!
Amherst County Virginia Democratic News
Supervisor Wants to be Senator
Claudia Tucker
Citing her connections to both the corporate world and the farming business, Claudia Tucker filed Tuesday as a candidate for the state Senate in the 22nd District.
Tucker, chairwoman of the Amherst County Board of Supervisors, becomes the fifth candidate, and second non-lawyer, seeking the Republican nomination in the district, which was created by the General Assembly’s redistricting process. It does not have an incumbent senator.
“If you want to send an attorney back to Richmond, there are a lot of choices. But if you want to send a pro-business candidate with real-world experience, there is only one choice,” Tucker said.
Tucker, 54, is senior director of state-government affairs in 12 states for Medco Health Solutions, a Fortune 50 company that manages pharmacy-benefit plans for corporate employers.
Her husband, Bill, operates Tucker Family Farms, an approximately 1,000-head beef cattle operation that has been in his family for seven generations, she said. They have three daughters, all college-age or above.
In her work with Medco, Tucker said, “I hire attorneys or lobbyists or whatever the case may be, and I manage them. It has been my responsibility to read all legislation, work with legislators, and educate them about our company.”
She also worked four years as chief of staff for former Del. Vance Wilkins, R-Amherst, who was speaker of the House of Delegates. During that time, she was involved in an eavesdropping incident on a Democratic-party conference call that led to her pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge in 2003.
“People make mistakes all the time,” Tucker said Tuesday. “My mistake was public, and if you ever want to learn and understand the consequences of your behavior, make a mistake that is in the public eye,” she said.
The misdemeanor plea was a campaign topic for Tucker’s opponent, Bonnie Limbrick, in the 2009 Board of Supervisors election. Tucker won by 41 votes.
“You can either make a mistake and sit on the sidelines, or take that mistake and learn from it and use your skills to make the process better. That is what I have chosen to do today,” Tucker said.
Lynchburg lawyer Mark Peake entered the 22nd District race on Monday, joining three previously announced candidates: Bryan Rhode of Goochland County, Brian Bates of Buckingham County, and Tom Garrett of Louisa County.
Republican Party leaders say they will meet soon to decide how to select the party’s candidate, and many of them are leaning toward having a primary election on Aug. 23.
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And Now To Newt News
Hail The Mighty NEWT
Newt calls the Ryan Plan Right Wing Social Engineering and a Radical Over Reach and The Republicans are mad at Newt for letting the cat out of the bag. Newt is mad as a hatter, mad at himself for being so stupid. He knew that you don't tell the truth about Republicans and he did it anyway. Its ok to call the President of the United States a "Food Stamp President" or a "Kenyan Tribesman Fighting British Colonialism" but to tell the truth
about Republicans, Thats a No-No.
I Did A No-No
Newt says David Gregory of NBC's Meet The Press tricked me. He asked me a simple question that he had thought about ahead of time and I gave an answer off the top of my head. Everybody knows the Ryan budget plan is a radical over reach and a piece of right wing social engineering but Republicans can't say it. Republicans think as long as they don't say it nobody will know.
"Tricky" David Gregory
Sarah Palin got tricked this way, Katie Couric asked her what she read and Sarah fell apart. No Republican will cop to believing in evolution, the GOP will not allow them to say it. Republicans won't say that they are Killing Medicare, Killing Medicade, Killing Social Security, Killing Womens Health Care, Killing Pell Grants for Education and giving Big Tax Breaks to Big Business and the Wealthy. They won't say it but they are doing it if the Democrats don't stop them.
Katie Couric
Republicans think their voters are so dumb that they won't know what they are up to if they don't tell them, if they don't say it. It's rare you will hear me say this, "Republican Voters are Smarter Than That". They know they are being sold out so you can give tax breaks to big business and the rich.
Now, Gingrich is urgently struggling to convince the political class that his 2012 hopes aren’t dead, amid an unending barrage of Republican attacks over his comments on the House GOP’s proposal to kill Medicare and overhaul of Social Security.
Gingrich finally seemed to realize the seriousness of his political plight Tuesday, when he held three conference calls, made a personal apology to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and admitted in a Fox News appearance: “I made a mistake, I should have never told the truth, Republicans just don't do that.”
“I should have supported what Ryan’s trying to do on the budget,” Gingrich told Greta Van Susteren. “The budget vote is
one that I am happy to say I would have stood lock step on with all the other Republicans and voted for. The gang must stick together right or wrong or there will be punishments.”
It’s not clear whether that course correction has come too late. Before Gingrich’s evening mea culpa, there were growing signs that his gaffe – undermining his own party by calling Ryan’s much-touted Kill Medicare plan too “radical a piece of right wing social engineering” to become law on NBC’s “Meet the Press” – had already dealt him a near-fatal blow. Newt may need to
use his bus ticket and get back home to Georgia.
For two days, his team seemed flat-footed in response to a spiraling political crisis. The chorus of voices criticizing the former House speaker has only grown louder, drawing in Republicans as prominent as House Majority Leader and Professional Birthday Party Clown Eric Cantor and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
Cantor was making baloon animals in his office but took a break to say “Many have said now he’s finished, Gingrich’s comments were a tremendous misspeak. The first thing we are taught at GOP Candidate School is to not tell the truth and Newt knew better."
Perhaps most tellingly, not a single prominent Republican has rallied to Gingrich’s defense – a testament to the regard in which Gingrich is held by much of the Beltway GOP establishment. The Republican nickname for Newt is "Punchy Old Georgia Dirt Bag" but they may lower their reguard for him after this truth telling gaff.
For a host of party leaders, Gingrich seems to have proven with astonishing speed that he deserves his reputation as an undisciplined, self-destructive, shoot-from-the-lip politician. His flair for provocative rhetoric, combined with his desire to make loftier political points, might make him too combustible for the presidential campaign trail. Many have observed that Newt is anything but a pretty man on TV and even before this some sort
of extreme make over was in order.
“The problem for Newt is, this is exactly what everybody who has ever worked for or around him said was his basic problem,” said Rich Galen, the veteran Republican strategist and former Gingrich aide. “Sooner or later, I suspect, unfortunately, the campaign will collapse from the top because people are going to say, ‘I like him and he was once really smart, but he can’t be president. You know what they say about time leaving you behind.”
The campaign, Galen added, is “close to being functionally over.” This last marriage was being artifically propped up for this presidential run and may be “close to being functionally over also.” Usually Newt only deserts his women when they are sick but you know what they say, "Things Change".
Greta Tried to Trick Newt
Gingrich's dozens of supporters object that it’s far too early to count him out. The former Georgia congressman has come back from the brink of political death before, and there’s still time for him to recover in the slow-starting presidential race especially since all the GOP candidates are so bland.
Newt sounded a defiant note on Fox Tuesday night, blaming the media for his woes and vowing not to participate in any more “media interviews or gotcha games. I'll only do puff pieces and Fox News from here on.” Gingrich also refused to answer a question about a POLITICO report that he and his latest wife, Callista, amassed up to $500,000 in debt at Tiffany’s. Newt had requested that Greta submit all her questions in advance but she tried to trick Newt by asking "Is it raining outside"? Newt astutely caught the punch and refused to answer. If Newt can't trust Fox to throw softballs his campaign is over.
“If it doesn’t relate to solving our problems, from now on my answer’s going to be, ‘I’m not commenting on it,”
Gingrich said. “I’m not playing Trivial Pursuit. You work at a TV station Greta, if you want to know about weather ask the weatherman. That wasn't one of our pre agreed to questions."
Gingrich has faced questions about his stance on the Ryan budget during his trip this week to Iowa, where advisers expressed optimism that he’s persuading voters his remarks were taken out of context. "You tricked me by broadcasting exactly what I said" added Newt.
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