A-Team: Yesterday George Allen visited the Smith Mountain Lake area with Delegate Charles Poindexter to talk with and listen to small business owners about today’s tough economy and how counterproductive government regulations and high energy prices were having a harmful impact on their businesses. One of the biggest local issues discussed was the especially burdensome, expensive and retroactive Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulations on docks. Bruce Shelton, general manager at Capps Home Building Center, said that construction permits were down 30% from even last year.
Poindexter and Allen campaign at Westlake businesses and on Scruggs Road
The Roanoke Times
By Mason Adams
October 20, 2011
Republican candidates for the General Assembly are getting plenty of help campaigning this week. Gov. Bob McDonnell is in town tonight for a Ralph Smith fundraiser, and Congressmen Morgan Griffith and Robert Hurt will campaign tomorrow for Bill Stanley.
This afternoon, former Gov., former U.S. Sen. and Republican U.S. Senate candidate George Allen swung by 4-year incumbent Del. Charles Poindexter’s Westlake office to campaign around Smith Mountain Lake this afternoon.
They visited Smith Mountain Building Supply and Capps Home Building Center to talk to store employees about the effects of a slow economy on their businesses. Both politicians asked whether government regulations and energy costs had hurt their bottom line.
Capps General Manager Bruce Shelton said that new construction has slowed — with new construction permits down 30 percent even from last year. Most of the contractors using his store are doing repair and renovation work, he said.
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