Tom Perriello and Dave Shreve, in competition with one another as democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, arrived in Danville with a unified message: Goode better get while the getting is good.
 Tom Perriello hopes to boot out Fifth District rep Virgil Goode, who has held his seat for over a decade. |
The Danville Register & Bee took time to speak with both candidates about Virginia Fifth District rep Virgil Goode (who has held the seat for 11 years and had raised more than $350,000 according to third quarter reports from the Federal Election Committee). Perriello, who is a lecturer at the UVA Law School, is listed in the same report as having earned more than $110,000 in campaign contributions, although an e-mail from Perriello’s campaign recently posted on blog network Democratic Central (www.democraticcentral.com) claims that the campaign has earned more than $250,000. The Register & Bee also writes that Perriello “spoke out against the so-called ‘Fair Tax,’” a national sales tax plan that he called “unfair.” Dems fighting words, huh?
Previous "This Just In" articles from this week:
Cavaliers dropped by Musketeers [January 4]
UVA basketball flounders in Cincinatti
Singing in the rain [January 3]
Local Drought Warning lifted
Last-second field goal beats UVA in Gator Bowl [January 2]
Cavs fall to Texas Tech
Kaine stumps for Obama [January 1]
Joins the presidential candidate in Iowa