Verga accuses Hurt of raising taxes, \u2018once again\u2019<\/a><\/p>\nThis is convoluted horsecrap. Verga is full of crap calling Hurt a “career tax-raiser” and he knows it. Verga’s dropped in the tier of 5th District candidates where the only chance of him moving upwards is to attack Robert Hurt on everything that he can. Hey, Laurence? This isn’t the way to get that done. If you came up with this idea, you’re stupid. If you got this idea from somebody else, they’re stupid. As it’s been said before quite often, Danny Marshall & Charlie Hawkins voted for that bill six years ago and Vera hasn’t got the guts to call them “career tax-raisers”.<\/p>\n
Luckily in the article, Isaac Wood shows how he’s Junior Master Of The Obvious by explaining the difference between a fee and a tax. If Larry Sabato ever gives up his crown as Supreme Master Of The Obvious, Isaac will slide right into that office. But it wouldn’t be a Catherine Amos R&B political article without a quote from Isaac Wood (or Brad Rees… guess he was unavailable. Heh.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, while I believe that Verga “said” what he did, how in the hell would anybody else know it? His website features a statement from December 2nd and his “media releases” are last dated January 13th. Is anybody running his campaign? If he’s got the money to fork out for “Joe the Plumber”, he could spring for $100 to update his website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We had made it 22 days without an article on the 5th District race. That streak comes to an end after a stupid-ass comment by Verga, who said Robert Hurt raised taxes “once again”. <\/p>\n
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