Bill Stanley elected 5th District GOP Chairman
By JR Hoeft | Saturday, May 1st, 2010 | PoliticsAt the 5th Congressional District Republic Committee Convention held Saturday at Hampden-Sydney College, Bill Stanley was elected Chairman of the Committee.
Stanley, who was recently the Franklin County GOP Committee chair, will succeed Tucker Watkins, who chose not to seek re-election.
Congratulating Stanley was one of several 5th District GOP Congressional candidates, Feda Morton, who said:
“Today’s election of Bill Stanley confirms the value of solid grassroots leadership and the impact of his experience and energy through the District,” Morton said. “I congratulate Bill on his victory and after securing the Republican nomination for the House of Representatives, look forward to working with him to help defeat Tom Perriello this November.”
Stanley got some last minute support for his candidacy from Lucy Goode, wife of former Congressman Virgil Goode, who penned this letter to 5th District Republicans and he was also endorsed by key members of the Tea Party movement in the district.
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16 Responses to "Bill Stanley elected 5th District GOP Chairman"
Excellent! I voted for Stanley at the state convention last year, the guy will be a great leader for the 5th district.
The 5th district has obviously taken a turn for conservative leadership this year, with the new unit committee chairs and the election of Bill Stanley as Chair of the District Committee. Hopefully this will not be limited to just the 5th district in years to come. Our party will benefit greatly from the example the 5th has set in 2010.
Bill Stanley is THE man with THE plan. He is a great man and will be an excellent Chairman for the District. After attending the Convention, I left with a happy heart for my good friend Billy had just won his election. However, I was very disappointed in Robert Hurt’s speech. He is a nice fellow and our families go back generations. But he is an awful speaker with a terrible record who played dirty politics with the Stanley campaign. Therefore, I was a man with a Chairman but without a Congressional candidate. Then Billy introduced me to Mike McPadden. We spent hours by a bar discussing his views on politics, the Consitution, Virginia, and life. He is EXACTLY what we need today and is so far the only candidate who I agree with more often than not. He supports allowing states to set their own drug policies. He supports lowering the drinking age. He supports returning marriage to its roots as an origional institution. His views are based upon the Constitution and his life experiences as a NAVY pilot and family man. He is one of the few, if the not the only, candidate in the primary who doesnt just talk about freedom, he’s put his life on the line for it. Please keep your eyes on Stanley and McPadden. They’re going places!
One additional note from the convention. Feda Morton, the clear “Values Voters” favorite in the race, won the straw poll among GOP delegates hands down, trouncing establishment favorite Robert Hurt 30-24 percent with the rest of the field trailing. This comes on the heels of Feda’s endorsements from the Family Research Council and pro-life hero former Del. Dick Black. Looks like it truly is a new day in the Fifth! Congratulations to Bill and Feda!
Morton does look like a very good candidate on paper. One big problem. The 5th district is very large geographically and she has no money. Yea, she could win a convention full of conservative activists but will struggle finishing in the top three in a primary with no resources. I still say this is Hurt’s to lose at this point.
I make no apologies for my support of Robert Hurt.
Between now & June 8, Feda will need scads of money to turn out enough voters (not just the homeschoolers & pro-life groups that support her) to eclipse all the other candidates.
I realize that her activists will start the “she has the most grassroots support” argument (this argument is used by all the campaigns to describe their candidates) ,but the fact remains that the 5th is a horribly expensive media market —with how many TV markets, three? think of the city newspapers that serve the 5th, the many radio stations. Its not like this district is the 1st or 2d with a concentrated ad market.
The person who ran the straw poll at the Fifth District Convention was Steve Morales of VA Polling. A nice guy who seemed to keep things fair, but on his Facebook profile, he shows that he is a fan of Feda Morton and none of the other Republican Congressional candidates.
I met Mr. Stanley and Mr. Schoenewald and had the (brief) opportunity to talk to them about their plans. Both of them came off as very respectful and qualified. I have to say, I am excited about the election of Bill Stanley. He has a lot of energy and big plans for the fifth. It’s a good day.
The 5th district is in very good hands!
Kudos to Bill and congrats!
Bill Stanley will make the 5th district GOP members once again proud to call themselves members.
“McPadden supports lowering the drinking age”; hmmmm…….might help him in certain locales!
I like Mike, but his opposition to a Federal Marriage Amendment and Human Life Amendment and his stated reasoning display a bit of a lack of understanding of the abuse of the federal judiciary that is commonplace today.
Tim so in your opinion it is ok to die for your country and vote at the age of 18 but not ok to drink a beer ?
Tim why no answer ?
With the fresh Android OS variations, I don’t suppose task killers are necessary. On my N1 I ascertain no deviation in speed when killing tasks; still, on my Hero operating 1.5 there was a evident difference after killing some apps (like Google Maps).
Perhaps its time to let gays in Virginia get married.
Why?
Hardly anyone noticed this month when new data showed 40 percent of all births are to unmarried mothers. That’s way up from 7 percent in the mid-1960s, when a young White House appointee named Daniel Patrick Moynihan tried to sound the alarm.
If almost 1/2 of the people who are having children do not want to bother with marriage, why deny it to a group of United States Citizens who want to get married.
Religious reasons?
The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: ‘Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. It helps you to remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.’ (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
Have you CINOS killed anyone lately for working on Sunday?
Perhaps compromise. 7% or higher unwed mothers, gays can get married; under 7% they can not.
James Hawkins, you stated: “Perhaps its time to let gays in Virginia get married.” I fixed it for ya.. “Perhaps its time to let gays in Virginia get a union between a man and a woman.” Is that what you meant? I didn’t think so either.
See the issue? There is some reference material that is thousands of years old.. Gen. 2:18, 21-24 Judaic law also is pretty clear on this going back 5700+ years.
Marriage is the civil union of a man and a woman who wish to become husband and wife. Any other definition of the term is in my opinion perverted. Yes I said perverted and I stand by my words. I guess if a gay man and a gay woman want to get married then it is a marriage but if two people of the same sex want a civil union do they think they can’t come up with a new application specific word to define the union of husband and husband or wife and wife? I am not standing in their way if they wish to pursue a legal union but I am defending the definition of Marriage as being between a man and a woman.
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