Beautiful morning in Lynchburg. Blue Ridge Mountains, Peaks of Otter in the distance, and Liberty Flames stadium in the foreground.
Lynchburg Republican Committee’s 2nd Annual Fundraising Dinner
Jun 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Republican candidates give preview of 2012 campaign for U.S. Senate
The News & Advance
By Ray Reed
June 25, 2011
Three Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate visited Lynchburg Saturday to give the party’s activists a preview of the campaigns they are running for the 2012 GOP primary.
Jamie Radtke, a Richmond-area tea party leader, and Bishop Earl W. Jackson of Chesapeake, who also has tea party connections, spoke to Republican women leaders from western and northern Virginia at the Oakwood Country Club in Lynchburg.
Former Sen. George Allen, who is seeking to reclaim the seat he lost to Democrat Jim Webb in 2006, told the Lynchburg Republican Committee Saturday night he is proposing broad cuts in taxes, spending and government regulations.
Describing the “Blueprint for America’s Comeback” he unveiled a week ago, Allen said he wanted to reduce taxes on corporations’ earnings from 35 percent to 20 percent and provide a “flat tax” option for individuals. Tax cuts can create new jobs, he said.
Allen said the corporate tax cut would “send a message throughout the world that America is open for business.”
Allen’s plan would reverse policies that limit U.S. access to its own energy resources including oil, coal and natural gas, he said. This plan also would create jobs, he added.
7th Annual Suzanne Curran Republican Women’s Retreat
Jun 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Susan and I had a great day in Lynchburg. I spoke to the 7th Annual Suzanne Curran Republican Women’s Retreat and then keynoted Lynchburg Republican Committee’s 2nd Annual Fundraising Dinner. Enjoyed the opportunity to see everyone!
Campbell County Meet and Greet
May 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Thank you to the community leaders who came out today. We had a good discussion about the challenges facing our Commonwealth and Nation — and positive solutions to create jobs and jumpstart our economy.
Lynchburg “Dutch Treat” Lunch at Depot Grill
May 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Former Senator Campaigns Among Lynchburg Republicans
The News & Advance
By Ray Reed
May 09, 2011
Former governor and senator George Allen visited Lynchburg Monday to rally local Republican activists to support him in a U.S. Senate election that is still 18 months away.
“We are getting an early start. This campaign is going to be a grass-roots insurgency. Virginia is going to be pivotal” in the 2012 elections, Allen said, referring to races for the presidency and U.S. House and Senate seats around the country.
Allen spoke to a lunchtime gathering, mostly of Republicans, at Lynchburg’s Depot Grille.
“There is a poll that was just taken that has us neck-and-neck against our opponent, who doesn’t have the same views we have on taxes and spending and right-to-work laws and a variety of issues,” Allen said, referring to Democratic candidate Timothy M. Kaine, also a former governor.
The Washington Post poll, announced Monday, showed both Allen and Kaine with 46 percent support among registered voters in Virginia.
Allen never mentioned the Republican Party primary election he will need to win next year in order to get the party’s nomination. Four other candidates have announced for the GOP nomination, including: Jamie Radtke of Richmond, Earl W. Jackson of Chesapeake, Timothy Donner of Great Falls and David McCormick of Virginia Beach.
Allen said he wanted to be the senator who casts the deciding votes on three issues: a balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution; an end to the Environmental Protection Agency’s control over carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants; and to “repeal and replace Obamacare.”
Audience member Richard Flack asked Allen how he would have voted on the health-care bill that Congress passed in March 2010.
