Despondency from Northern Virginia Dems… and tough to say, but I couldn’t agree with them more about the climate:
There are many things going on right now and many important issues like national health care reform, restoring voting rights, reasonable gun control etc. It is very hard to keep going and stay focused.
Very hard to keep going and stay focused?! That has to be one of the most despondent, beaten down, dejected representations of the climate in Virginia (for a leftist, anyhow) I have read in a long, long time.
Read on:
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From: Todd Smyth
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Subject: [FallsChurchforObama] Sobering Brigades Meeting Last Night
To: Falls Church for ObamaBen Tribbett (Not Larry Sabato) gave a very professional and well done, but sobering presentation last night at our monthly Brigades meeting. His analysis of each targeted state Delegate district and the implications of redistricting made clear how critical the election in Virginia will be this year. What I took away was that unless we help Creigh Deeds carry the state with a wide margin, we might lose seats in the HoD, which would put us in a position of losing the state Senate in the next election. To me, this means we are in real trouble and on the brink of losing Virginia in a way that could create a modern dark ages that none of us would like to live in.
One of the major problems is that while conservative Republicans tend to vote in every election, many of the people who came out to vote for Obama last November are the least likely to vote in a non-Federal election. Our challenge is getting as many people who voted last year
out to vote this year. Both Del. Caputo and candidate Jeanette Rishell said the only way we can get it done is to be united in getting people out to vote this November. My concern is that many of us are divided in our focus. There are many things going on right now and many important issues like national health care reform, restoring voting rights, reasonable gun control etc. It is very hard to keep going and stay focused.I would like to ask everyone to think about the situation we are in now and try to do whatever you can to get yourself and people you know involved, informed and taking action. And by that I mean canvassing, phone banking, house parties, signing up new volunteers and data entry. We need everyone we can get as often as possible. Here are the coordinated offices so far in NoVA. If you have other office locations and contacts, please reply with them.
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Todd Smyth
Fairfax, VA
I’ll ask rhetorically: What do you think the MSM would have done if a Republican had mentioned that Virginia’s submission to the Democratic Party would “create a modern dark ages”?