{"id":5077,"date":"2009-08-19T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T03:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2009-08-19T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T03:23:23","slug":"seward-hello-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/19\/seward-hello-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"OpinionCentral: Seward? Hello? Boing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have to wonder who&#8217;s driving Seward Anderson&#8217;s campaign so far. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.godanriver.com\/gdr\/news\/local\/danville_news\/article\/anderson_vows_to_increase_staff_at_va_office\/13308\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anderson vows to increase staff at VA office<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Written by Catherine Amos&#8230; follow her on Twitter!) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ladycamos\" target=\"_blank\">@ladycamos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>246 customers in a month? Sounds like a fair workload to me. In a situation where the state budget is falling apart, $75,000 can go a long way somewhere else. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one other thing in the article that made me laugh&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;That veteran arrived in a car with a handicap license plate, <em>while Anderson\u2019s conference took up the handicap parking space<\/em>. Anderson offered to move, but the man was able to park in the next-closest spot&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Taking up a handicapped space for a press conference at a place where a lot of the clients use handicapped parking? <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img526.imageshack.us\/img526\/9826\/facepalmav9.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have to wonder who&#8217;s driving Seward Anderson&#8217;s campaign so far. <\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,20,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danville","category-newscentral","category-opinioncentral","category-politicscentral","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-1jT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5637,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/18\/14th-district-house-race-update-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5077,"position":0},"title":"14th District House Race \u2013 Update #2","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"October 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Update: 14th District House Race \u2013 Update #1 It's a strange political season when a city's Sheriff's and Commonwealth Attorney's election get more attention than the House of Delegates' one does. Thoughts: Incumbent Danny Marshall is facing challenger Seward Anderson in a race that's much different than 2 years\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;OpinionCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"OpinionCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/opinioncentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5543,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/08\/seward-andersons-campaign-just-pissed-me-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":5077,"position":1},"title":"Seward Anderson&#8217;s campaign just pissed me off.","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"October 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Seward: Do not insult my intelligence by stringing together a bunch of crap in a direct-mail piece. I don't check my mail often because I do most everything online. However, today I find this large direct-mail piece that says... Danny Marshall opposed economic development for Southside... And we lost 3,000\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;OpinionCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"OpinionCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/opinioncentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5699,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/27\/endorsement-danny-marshall-for-14th-district-delegate\/","url_meta":{"origin":5077,"position":2},"title":"Endorsement: Danny Marshall for 14th District Delegate","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"October 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Danny Marshall has been a very good and effective Delegate for the 14th District and we believe that he deserves re-election. Danny Marshall is running for his fifth term in Virginia's House of Delegates and barely survived one of Southside's all-time classic elections against Adam Tomer in 2007. That campaign\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Endorsements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Endorsements","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/politicscentral\/endorsements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5773,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/04\/some-thoughts-about-the-election\/","url_meta":{"origin":5077,"position":3},"title":"Some thoughts about the election&#8230;","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"November 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's take a look at some random thoughts about the election and how it affects the Southside area. First of all, We give the highest thanks of all to Star News crew. Matt Smith & Blaine Zigler worked behind the big blue wall to get us the most accurate election\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;OpinionCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"OpinionCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/opinioncentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10935,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/02\/parking-jerk-of-the-day-1122014\/","url_meta":{"origin":5077,"position":4},"title":"Parking Jerk of the Day! (11\/2\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"November 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"We're heading to South Boston for today's Parking Jerk. Let's see what our Roving Reporters have found today... All right, let's analyze this one. Badly parked. Parked in a striped area. Points for a handicapped parking space. Bonus points for combining the striped area AND the handicapped parking place. 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Danny Marshall is a 4-term incumbent who barely hung on to his seat 2 years ago. 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