Nye and Perriello demonstrate that Virginia is purple
By JR Hoeft | Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | PolicyIf you look at the past elections of Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner, the state senate switching parties, and three U.S. House seats moving to the Democrats, one would say that on face value, Virginia is a blue state.
However, you’d be wrong.
Case in point, if Virginia is truly turning blue, would Tom Perriello and Glenn Nye make-up 10% of all Democrats who voted against the Democrats budget last week?
Nye, who, according to his own press release, is building a “strong reputation as a pro-business, fiscally-conservative Democrat” clearly doesn’t represent the progressive interests of his more ardent supporters.
Then you have Tom Perriello who is leading a crusade on earmark reform stating “this is a serious step towards transparency for taxpayers. As promised, we have set up a public process for submitting proposals and identified cost-effective and transformative projects.”
Clearly the two congressman recognize that unrestrained spending has been their party’s downfall in the past.
Too bad they are only 2 of 20.
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11 Responses to "Nye and Perriello demonstrate that Virginia is purple"
its easy for both of them to vote “no” when they know the bill is going to pass anyway. I am interested in seeing what happens the first time there is a big spending bill where the vote hangs in the balance – i will not be impressed untill that day comes.
Just because Nye took an easy vote doesn’t make him an Owen Pickett. Nye told us how far he’d go to get what he wants when he so fully supported Democrat boss Charlie Rangel in his time of need.
Being elected on the Obama wave, he knows he’ll need help to be re-elected in the 2nd. Clearly, he’s looking for a return of favors.
I fully expect Goode’s seat and Drake’s to be returned to somebody in the GOP. Obama’s current spending initiatives and politically charged approval rating scores so early in his term argue for losses in swing areas.
Nye didn’t just vote no on the Democrat budget. He voted no on every budget, including the pro-business Republican substitute. He couldn’t find a budget he could be a part of enough to vote for.
We didn’t elect a moderate. We elected an incompetent.
I’ll give credit where credit is due. I live in Perriello’s district and I applaud him for voting against Obama’s budget.
I am disappointed that I am suddenly getting taxpayer funded flyers promoting Perriello. I may be wrong, but I do not remember those coming out under Virgil’s representation. I don’t mind having an update on what a congressman is doing but when it contains language such as, “Tom Perriello- Putting Virginia on the Road to Recovery,” it sounds like a taxpayer -funded campaign to me. I can think of some things like missle defense that need such taxpayer funds.
Of course its purple. Elections have been extremely close around here. Hopefully this year we will win more of them.
Virginia isn’t purple. Its just pissed.
Jim – spin it how you want to Virginia IS blue:
Dem Gov
Dem Sens
Dem for President
Dem Congressfolk
- even Michigan has some GOP congresspeople and Michigan sure isn’t a red state…
Dem Gov?
Yea, Dems cast as conservative and running against poor pitiful opponents.
Dem. Senators. Macaca and RINOs deserting Gilmore who absolutely refused to defend his record.
Dem President people wanted change and McCain was no change. Now we have a change to socialism. Not good but, still it is change. Everything we hated about Bush but, far worse.
Dem. Congress – Yea, watch Goode’s seat and Drake’s seat turn Republican real fast.
That said Mark, unless the Republicans put up real candidates not much will change.
Perriello didn’t vote for any budget, either. Maybe he and Nye should have submitted their own if they couldn’t find any of the 5 possibilities to their liking.
I know you don’t care Brian, but there where a number of Republicans that didn’t vot for either budget. Of course you wouldn’t call them incompetent though.
I know you don’t care Brian, but there were a number of Republicans that didn’t vot for either budget. Of course you wouldn’t call them incompetent though.
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