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Founder's Club Member - Moderator
VCDL member Brian Reynolds creates http://www.cantoronguns.com/ at the direction of VCDL Pac Chairman.
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Place your phone calls and e-mails today.
The VCDL encouraged this?
This is known as taking the moral high ground. It has never been a problem for Eric Cantor and his reelection campaign to refuse to accept funds offered by the KKK or any of a number of neo-Nazi/White Majority organizations. If Eric Cantor and his reelection campaign can assume the moral high ground with regard to donations from those sources, .
In the interest of getting the facts right - and only in that interest - it should be noted that Eric Cantor is not directly responsible for his annual fundraiser being held at anti-gun rights Snag-a-Job Pavillion, and that the rest of the Innsbrook complex seems to have no problem with OC or CC.
The 7th District Republican Committee is the organization that hosts the fundraiser and they then turn over the proceeds of the event to their favored candidate - who just happens to be Eric Cantor. It has been impossible to break into the decision-making process of why Snag-a-Job Pavillion is selected, but there is sufficient reason to believe there is some sort of financial consideration in play.
Moving forward from those points - I have corresponded to (not with, as I neve get any replies) Eric Cantor and his reelection campaign for the past two years asking why the candidate continues to permit the 7th District Republican Committee to choose a venue that locks out a significant proportion of the voters who would consider supporting him. Eric Cantor does not select the venue, but he certainly has sufficient influence to tell the 7th District Republican Committee that he will not attend any event they hold at any venue that ias blatantly anti-gun rights, and that he will not accept any donations they attempt to offer based on the fact that they were collected at an anti-gun rights venue.
This is known as taking the moral high ground. It has never been a problem for Eric Cantor and his reelection campaign to refuse to accept funds offered by the KKK or any of a number of neo-Nazi/White Majority organizations. If Eric Cantor and his reelection campaign can assume the moral high ground with regard to donations from those sources, it is baffling why Eric Cantor and his reelection campaign continue to accept contributions from an event that blatantly refuses to accept/acknowledge the rights of those who would be/in fact are a significant portion of Eric Cantor's voter base.
Do not blame Eric Cantor for choosing Snag-a-Job Pavillion. Blame him for refusing to stand up to the 7th District Republican Committee.
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Absolutely right Skid and I'd like to point out that several years ago at the Goochland meeting, when Cobb was saying Innsbrook was the only place that could handle it....you offered to find a place that met their specs. The silence was deafening.
Good ol' boys in seersucker suits don't like those "not from here" making outside the box suggestions - particularly if they make sense.
What we need are people inside the local committee - then our influence would be direct and telling.
Dear God!
We've gone from baby steps to backward steps.
BTW, Cobb has been spoken to at length. I think I still have the audio recording of Philip, Paul and several others, speaking to Cobb at length.
That doesn't mean I disagree with the strategy BT. It is reasonable, even going to the roundup. Other than the reference to steps which I've heard enough of....I think it is the route to take. Obviously the brute force tactic isn't working.
Cobb has been spoken to. Better results would be had doing an end run around him.
Time to turn up the heat a bit.