Join us at our next meeting!
Dear Fellow Democrats:
Our next Meeting is coming up on Thursday April 10th, and will again be held at What a Blessing Bakery. Our guest speakers will be
Amherst Supervisors Claudia Tucker and John Marks. I have asked them to outline what they believe the longer term objective of the Board should be, how current Board decisions help us get there, and how we as concerned citizens can be a part of the process.
There will be a buffet dinner available at $15 per person from 6 pm to 7 pm, a brief business meeting at 7 PM, including a report from Skipper Fitts on the first meeting of the Strategic Planning Committee, following which our speakers will take the floor. I hope this will encourage dialog on how we can work with local officials to make Amherst a better place to live and work.
Please email me at edwardkable@gmail.com or phone me at 434-989-2846 if you plan to have dinner so that I can give What a Blessing a head count.
Please plan to attend our regular monthly second Thursday meetings and plan to come to dinner so we can exchange ideas. Please note
that the May and June meetings will be at Merredith’s Restaurant, 1558 Dixie Airport Rd., Madison Heights. We’d like to hold
meetings throughout the County, and look to you for suggestions on sites.
Sincerely,
Ned Kable, Chair-Amherst Democrats
Mark Warner was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2008, and serves on the Senate Finance, Banking, Budget, and Intelligence committees. During his time in the Senate, Senator Warner has established himself as a national leader in efforts to find bipartisan consensus to create balanced solutions to reduce the federal debt and deficit. He also has been a champion for military men and women, their families, and our military veterans. Senator Warner also is a leader in Congress in efforts to promote private-sector innovation and to help our nation's small businesses and start-up companies succeed.
Senator Warner is a leader in seeking bipartisan compromises to try and break through Congressional gridlock. He organized the Senate's Gang of Six, which has worked since 2011 to find a bipartisan path towards responsible deficit and debt reduction, and he has reached across the aisle to co-sponsor numerous bills with Republican colleagues.
Senator Warner’s business experience has informed his work towards leaner, more efficient government. He was chosen by his
colleagues on the Budget Committee to lead a bipartisan task force to eliminate unnecessary program overlap and wasteful duplication within the federal bureaucracy, and he has introduced bills to measure and eliminate waste in federal agencies.
As the senior senator from Virginia, a state with a proud history of military service and a large population of service members, their families, and veterans, Senator Warner has been a strong advocate for the men and women of our armed forces. He has intervened to improve older, dilapidated military housing in Hampton Roads and to combat the use of toxic drywall in military and civilian housing. His efforts also prompted the Veterans Administration to significantly improve its services to female military veterans.
Senator Warner has acted swiftly and decisively to resolve issues in the Commonwealth that demanded his immediate attention.
After two Virginia Air National Guard pilots blew-the-whistle on chronic safety concerns with the new F-22 stealth fighter jet, Senator Warner intervened to protect the pilots from reprisals and prompted the Air Force to step-up its investigation into the cause of the F-22 safety issues. He also mobilized several of Virginia’s leading technology companies to correct mistakes and mis-management discovered at the Army’s Arlington National Cemetery.
From 2002 to 2006, Senator Warner served as Governor of Virginia, where he worked in a bipartisan way to turn record budget deficits into a surplus. Governor Warner also focused on improving public education and expanding economic opportunity in every region of the state. He recruited 135,000 new jobs to Virginia during his four-year term. When Governor Warner left office in 2006, Virginia was consistently recognized as the nation’s “best-managed state," the “best state for business” and the state offering the best educational opportunities to its young people.
Before entering public office, Senator Warner was an early investor in the cellular telephone business. He co-founded the company
that became Nextel, and ultimately made early investments in hundreds of start-up technology companies that have created tens-of-thousands of private sector jobs.
Senator Warner, his wife Lisa Collis, and their three daughters live in Alexandria, Virginia.
Mark Warner is a GREAT Senator, let's work to keep him.
Duck Dynasty Congressman In Sex Scandal
Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA), a first-term conservative congressman elected in a November special election, was shown in a romantic embrace with a staff member on a video tape released Monday.
The Duck Dynasty congressman got caught sticking his beak in the wrong place.
Rep. Vance McAllister, a freshman Republican elected in a November special election with the support of the Robertson family from Duck Dynasty, is already in a political scandal and asking forgiveness from his constituents. McAllister, a family values social conservative, was caught on camera apparently making out with his scheduler, Melissa Peacock, in the hallway of his Monroe, Louisiana, district office. In what appears to be the building's security footage, the newly elected congressman seems to be cannoodling with Peacock, who was a max donor to McAllister's special election campaign.
The scandal could make re-election far more difficult for McAllister. He won in a special election upset over State Senator Neil Riser, who was considered the establishment GOP candidate. The district, where President Obama only won 38% of the vote in 2012, is not considered competitive for Democrats.
Sadly for McAllister, newly elected Louisiana Republican hasn't even seemed to be enjoying his job so far. In January, the Shreveport Times reported that McAllister said that his job "sucks [and] it ain't no fun."
In a statement, McAllister said:
"There's no doubt I've fallen short and I'm asking for forgiveness. I'm asking for forgiveness from God, my wife, my kids, my staff, and my constituents who elected me to serve. Trust is something I know has to be earned whether your a husband, a father, or a congressman. I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed. From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician. I don't want to make a political statement on this, I would just simply like to say that I'm very sorry for what I've done. While I realize I serve the public, I would appreciate the privacy given to my children as we get through this."
Major GOP Donor Sends Out Obamacare Hitler Parody
Foster Friess, a major Republican donor, sent out a "humorous parody" video on Monday of Hitler complaining about Obamacare.
What could go wrong sending out a "humorous parody" of Adolf Hitler complaining about his Obamacare?
The idea certainly didn't raise any red flags for Foster Friess, the conservative billionaire and Rick Santorum backer in 2012 who
sent a "Humorous Parody of Hitler Realizing He Can’t Keep His Doctor Under ObamaCare" to his email list on Monday afternoon.
The video, features a clip from the 2004 German movie "Downfall" of Hitler realizing that all was lost while his Berlin bunker.
However, the subtitles have been changed to show the genocidal German dictator complaining that he was being forced to see a Jewish doctor, Dr. Feingold, for his prostate screening instead of Dr Steiner under Obamacare. Hitler then rages that he was told that if he liked his plan, he could keep it. The video ends with Hitler noting that "Obama now has a growing integrity gap. His poll
numbers are plummeting." It ends with the Nazi leader mournfully noting "there's no way we can pin this one on Bush."
This isn't Friess's first brush with controversy. The conservative donor famously said on live television in 2012 that "You know,
back in my days, they'd use Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly."
With gaffes like these, it just may be that Friess's political talents are better suited to simply writing checks than to writing emails as well.
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