Al Gore’s Attorney helps Mathieson
By Brian Kirwin | Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | PoliticsThe Mathieson message – We want the votes counted, so stop counting!
Great logic, but then again this was the Democrat who was so “tough on crime” he bucked his own party to let felons work in schools.
And in a great show of bipartisanship and effectiveness, he’s hired an expert, John Young, from the Al Gore losing team from Florida in 2000.
The Virginia Supreme Court may rule today on whether the voter registrar can finish counting the votes, or can they allow the delay sought by Mathieson’s big money campaign team.
Speaking of big money, whatever happened to Mathieson’s embezzled campaign funds? Voters still don’t know where those “expenditures” went. If Mathieson wants every vote counted, the least he can do is tell the public where every dollar went.
One of the many whines of the sore loser team is that they want justification of the absentee ballots that were never returned by voters. Yeah, that’s what this mess is boiling down to. If you requested an absentee ballot but never wound up voting, the Mathieson campaign wants to know why.
Then when that nonsense gets them nowhere, they’ll go after absentee ballots that were returned, and suddenly their “count every vote” will amazingly switch to “throw these votes out.”
And the longer it goes on, the sillier the protesting Democrats (most of whom don’t even live in the district) will look.
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The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.
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6 Responses to "Al Gore’s Attorney helps Mathieson"
Mathieson’s camp asked the judge to lift the injunction this morning, so the counting continues.
No. The judge was warned he was about to get slapped by the Supremes so he lifted it. Get ready for a JIRC hearing, you partisan hack judge!
Only 2 not-previously counted absentee ballots have been allowed into the count and the candidates split them one each.
8 provisionals remain, although they may not all count either, so unless something very dramatic happens, Villanueva wins.
Remember Don Williams beat Bev Graeber back in the 90′s, was it ’95 or ’97?, by only 8 votes. I don’t recall the Democrats questioning his legitimacy. I actually recall the Democrats calling Delegate Williams. The next election he won in a landslide. History will repeat itself.
It turned out to ultimately be 11 votes in the ’97 race and, if over 100 votes is what you call a “landslide”, that was the result in ’99.
I volunteered on the Graeber campaign as an ODU College Republican and had courthouse duty during the ’99 campaign.
Well sure it is. He improved his previous campaign results by 900%!
Point taken. I remember you from back then…some young handsome Navy sailor, very popular with the ladies as I recall…Have fun in Qatar… 
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