VA-11, you got yourself a pro-choice congressman in Gerry Connolly
When Obama became the first Democrat to take Virginia in 44 years, Viriginia was also able to celebrate the win of pro-choice Gerry Connolly to VA-11:
Connolly, 58, chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, brings the number of Democrats in Virginia's 11-member congressional delegation to four. He defeated Republican newcomer Keith S. Fimian, 52, to replace retiring Rep. Tom Davis (R) in Virginia's 11th District, where voters in Fairfax and Prince William counties have increasingly chosen Democrats in statewide political contests this decade.
"The voters spoke," Connolly told supporters last night. "They said, 'Enough, be gone, you've had your day. It's time for a change.'
In the 11th District, which encompasses much of central and southern Fairfax and a large swath of Prince William, Davis, a popular Republican first elected 14 years ago, was able to win reelection repeatedly with moderate views on social issues and strong advocacy on such bread-and-butter issues as the federal workforce and transportation. Fimian was unable to overcome either the demographics of the district or the popularity of his opponent, who was overwhelmingly reelected to the county chairman's job just a year ago.
This was true despite a slight financial advantage attributable primarily to Fimian's early campaign decision to lend himself $325,000. As of Oct. 15, Fimian had raised nearly $1.4 million. Connolly, by the same date, had raised nearly $1.8 million but spent about $700,000 in a competitive primary race against Leslie L. Byrne.
Connolly campaigned on a promise to continue Davis's practical, business-friendly approach to such issues as rail to Dulles International Airport, which he supports. He also espoused a distinctly Democratic view on such issues as abortion rights and stem-cell research, which he supports, and the war in Iraq, which he opposes.
Connolly also sought to draw a stark contrast between his "progressive" views and those of Fimian, whom he portrayed as a closet conservative who occasionally hid his party affiliation and downplayed his membership in the conservative social organization Legatus.
Congratulations to the Connolly campaign for defeating anti-choice Keith Fimian!
An exuberant Gerald E. Connolly speaks to supporters at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner after the Fairfax Democrat won Virginia's 11th Congressional District seat. (By Richard A. Lipski -- The Washington Post)
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This is great news - we knocked doors for him too!!
Can you tell me legally how the Supreme Court can justify allowed choice. In our Constitution the 10th Amendment states that any rights not expressly stated are reserved to the states. Choice is not stated in either the Constitution or the federal statutes so shouldn't it be left up to the states?
why are you for a bill that will allow government takeover of our healthcare? Are you a socialist? And have you read Reid's clause in the bill that makes this an irrevocable bill once it has pas
Subj: FW: Look What Harry Reid Hid in the Health Care Bill
Thank goodness for "good communication" and "The Internet" so people can catch these crooks at work trying to control Americans....
The impudent tyranny of Sen. Harry Reid
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is proving once again the maxim that darkness hates the light. Buried in his massive amendment to the Senate version of Obamacare is Reid's anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future Congress from repealing the central feature of this monstrous legislation!
Beginning on page 1,000 of the measure, Section 3403 reads in part, "It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection." In other words, if President Barack Obama signs this measure into law, no future Senate or House will be able to change a single word of Section 3403, regardless whether future Americans or their representatives in Congress wish otherwise!!
Note that the subsection at issue here concerns the regulatory power of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB) to "reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending." That is precisely the kind of open-ended grant of regulatory power that effectively establishes the IMAB as the ultimate arbiter of the cost, quality and quantity of health care to be made available to the American people. And Reid wants the decisions of this group of unelected federal bureaucrats to be untouchable for all time.
No wonder the majority leader tossed aside assurances that senators and the public would have at least 72 hours to study the text of the final Senate version of Obamacare before the critical vote on cloture. And no wonder Reid was so desperate to rush his amendment through the Senate, even scheduling the key tally on it at 1 a.m.., while America slept. True to form, Reid wanted to keep his Section 3403 poison pill secret for as long as possible, just as he negotiated his bribes for the votes of Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bernie Sanders of Vermont behind closed doors.
The final Orwellian touch in this subversion of democratic procedure is found in the ruling of the Reid-controlled Senate Parliamentarian that the anti-repeal provision is not a change in Senate rules, but rather of Senate "procedures." Why is that significant? Because for 200 years, changes in the Senate's standing rules have required approval by two-thirds of those voting, or 67 votes rather than the 60 Reid's amendment received.
Reid has flouted two centuries of standing Senate rules to pass a measure in the dead of night that no senator has read, and part of which can never be changed. If this is not tyranny, then what is?
DON'T SIT BY AND LET THIS HAPPEN IN THE DARK!!! FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST!
sed. here it is: