Virginia June 11 Primary: Banglist VCDL Endorsements

VCDL ^ | 6/10/11 | Bob Sadtler

[HokieMom]

Primary -- Tuesday, June 11, 2013

We are in the fight for our lives -- the fight for our gun rights -- the fight for freedom.

We have some particularly bad candidates in this primary. Sadly, in only two cases do we have distinctive candidates, so we have only been able to make endorsements in two races.

The first is the need to unseat long term incumbent Republican Delegate Joe May from Virginia's 33 House district, which covers western Loudoun County, a swath through northern Clarke County, and northern Frederick County as far west as Winchester -- all in Northern Virginia.

Joe May has proven, over and over, to be a very reliable anti-gun vote.

Joe May voted to continue the unconstitutional one gun a month law.

Joe may voted against the repeal of the restaurant gun ban.

Joe May also refuses to fill out the VCDL Candidate Survey.

Fortunately, we have a strongly pro-gun candidate running against him in TOMORROW'S Primary Election. That person is Dave LaRock. He is solidly pro-gun, and not only did he return the VCDL Candidate Survey (unlike Joe May), he answered it 100% correctly.

Please vote for Dave LaRock if you are in the Virginia 33rd House District on Tuesday.

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The other VCDL PAC endorsement is in the 15th House District. Both candidates filled out the VCDL Candidate Survey. The 15th House District includes all of Page and Shenandoah Counties and portions of Warren and Rockingham Counties.

Delegate Gilbert is on the Militia & Police Committee and sits on the pro-gun Subcommittee Number One. We choose to endorse Delegate Gilbert because of his history of supporting gun owners. It was a clear choice although his primary opponent is likely to be good as well.

When Delegate Hope tried to ban guns from the Virginia General Assembly Building, when Delegate Gilbert's turn to speak came up, he (politely) dressed down Delegate Hope, calling the GAB "The People's House." We have a friend in Delegate Gilbert.

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We need to make a last minute push on both of these candidates. We have already dropped expensive mailings in both districts. We need to pay for them in the next 30 days. So PLEASE, send a generous donation to the PAC so we can keep up this fight. We prefer to contact our members, gun rights supporters and drop direct mail rather than giving money to candidates. We get "more bang for the buck" by targeting our message carefully. We were able to make significant changes at the Republican Convention in Richmond recently because of your donations. If we didn't get them, we would be worse than broke right now.

We will also have the General Election expenses,, which will be the steepest of all, so please give generously.

Remember to vote Tuesday, June 11, and to ask your like minded friends to do the same. Please support Dave LaRock in the 33rd House District. It would be great to remove anti-gun Delegate Joe May.

Please support Delegate Todd Gilbert in the 15th House District.

Finally, please support the VCDL PAC.

To donate, go to: https://mobipledge.mobi/vcdlpac/webpledge/

If you want to give using PayPal, after logging into PayPal, send money to vcdlpac@vcdl.org

Thanks.

Bob Sadtler Chairman, VCDL-PAC

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[Impy]

“VA GOP Speaker”

I can’t believe that bastard. What was he thinking?

[AuH2ORepublican]

Well, to be fair, he has a responsibility to determine whether an amendment is germane to the original bill (as required by the VA Constitution), and thie Senate amendment was quite a stretch. He probably ruled against it because Gov. McDonnell and several House Republicans didn’t want to have to decide between approving Senate lines that benefitted Republicans (which were, in my opinion, fairer than the Dem-drawn gerrymander, and which added a black-majority SD) and being accused of (gasp!) partisanship and of participating in an underhanded scheme to wait until a black Democrat went to Sobama’s inauguration to pass the bill by one vote.

McDonnell could have come out in favor of the map, pointing out how it’s fairer than the current one, and maybe then the Speaker would have ruled that isince the subject of the original bill was legislative redistricting that the amendment was germane enough, but McDonnell just wanted the “problem” to go away.

[Impy]

I don’t want to be fair I want a safely Republican State Senate in Virginia. ;-D

That the GOP Speaker of House doesn’t want that at the mere cost of being accused of “scheming” then I conclude he’s not fit for leadership and should look into having some gonads installed. And the same goes for McDonnell. Thanks for saddling (hopefully) Cuccillini with a tied or rat Senate, wuss.

[AuH2ORepublican]

The next Senate election is in 2015, so the 50/50 Senate will remain for two and 1/2 more years regardless of what law they pass. But drawing a GOP-friendly map in time for 2015 means that the GOP will win around 2/3 of the seats that year, and again in 2019, so the GOP will get to draw the redistring maps after the 2020 Census (and do other good stiluff, of course).