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Mark Warner Joins Tom Perriello at Albemarle Democratic BBQ

From: The Newsplex on August 29, 2010

Democrats gathered at Claudius Crozet Park in Crozet Saturday for chicken, pork and a side of politics.It's the 22nd annual Albemarle County Democratic Barbecue. Hundreds of Democrats gathered to rally for U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello.

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Bluegrass music welcomed hundreds of Democrats at the fundraiser, and many indulged in some homemade barbecue.

"We are confident, the food is great. Pork is falling off the bone," said Peter McIntosh, who handled the grill.

The event raised money for Perriello, who is facing Republican state Sen. Robert Hurt in November's midterm elections.

"They want someone who represents the people, and they know they've got that in me," Perriello said.

The grill is fired up with chicken, pork and brisket. Another who is fired up is Sen. Mark Warner, who gave the opening remarks.

"This is going to be a very tight election year in the 5th District for Congressman Tom Perriello's seat," Warner told CBS19. "I think he's been a strong voice in Congress, and I think these folks want to get out there and get charged up."

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Editorial: Optical illusion

by Tom McLaughlin in The News & Record

It’s a little more than a week before Labor Day, the traditional kickoff of the fall campaign season, and the two major party candidates for Congress, incumbent Democrat Tom Perriello and Republican Robert Hurt, are on the air already with TV commercials. No rest for the weary, it seems, in politics and in war.

The optics of this race are plain enough: Perriello, doing his James Brown-routine as the hardest working man in politics, is running around the district making the case for investments in education, clean energy and infrastructure, and defending the better parts of the stimulus bill passed by Congress in response to the worst economic downturn in the U.S. since the Great Depression. A sitting member of Congress during the Big Slide but in no way culpable for it, Perriello has the daunting, but not impossible, task of selling the public on the need for Washington to do more to set this awful economy straight.

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Editorial: The better vote for Virginia

By The Roanoke Times on August 19, 2010

Del. Bob Marshall took a jab last week at Gov. Bob McDonnell for accepting Virginia's share of a federal aid package to help recession-battered states and localities.

Because the commonwealth's Republican congressmen voted against the money bill, along with just about every other Republican, Marshall argued, "To spend this money is to tacitly accept that Reps. Cantor, Forbes, Goodlatte, Wittman and Wolf voted against Virginia's better public interest and that [Democrats] cast the better vote for Virginians."

Yes. Yes, they did.

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Perriello Releases New Campaign Ad, Takes Aim at Hurt

By Newsplex on August 18, 2010

A new Tom Perriello campaign ad is now hitting the airways in Charlottesville and Roanoke. However, unlike previous campaigns, this ad directly challenges his Republican opponent, State Senator Robert Hurt.

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A Stimulus for Schools and Localities

 By The Lynchburg News & Advance on August 18, 2010

Although school divisions in Central Virginia have cut their budgets for the coming school year to cope with lower state and local revenues, they are undoubtedly looking forward to a share of the state’s federal stimulus money to save jobs.
 
The persistently lagging economy has taught most school administrators that if they have to, they can operate with less money. The difficult lesson of the past year is that the schools have learned that money is not always the answer to what they see as problems facing them.
 
More efficient use of money for schools will help the taxpayers both now and in the years ahead.
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