{"id":6924,"date":"2010-05-19T23:22:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2010-05-19T23:22:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:22:25","slug":"5th-district-republican-primary-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/19\/5th-district-republican-primary-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5th District Republican Primary \u2013 Update #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Last update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/09\/5th-district-republican-primary-update-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">5th District Republican Primary \u2013 Update #1<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Ten days from our first update, let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s been going on in the 5th District.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s kick it off with an update on each of the candidates (in random order).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim McKelvey &#8211; McKelvey is starting to spend (his own) money and is running TV ads. He&#8217;s picking up some name recognition in the Southside region. Since our last update, McKelvey comes out <strong>UP<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Hurt &#8211; Hurt continues to saturate the region with direct mail. He&#8217;s also released a poll that shows himself in a big lead. He&#8217;s still got a lot of money to do even more advertising and it&#8217;s finally looking like his campaign is fully in gear. Since our last update, Hurt comes out <strong>STRONGLY UP<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Ron Ferrin &#8211; I have no idea what his campaign is doing because I haven&#8217;t heard anything out of him. He&#8217;ll make it to the finish line, so I guess that&#8217;s something. Since our last update, Ferrin comes out <strong>EVEN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Mike McPadden &#8211; His campaign has pretty much defeated the negative things that have came out in the past few weeks. Money doesn&#8217;t seem to be a limiting factor in his campaign and he&#8217;s going to need it to get any significant part of the Southside votes. Since our last update, McPadden comes out <strong>EVEN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Ken Boyd &#8211; Boyd still has his group of supporters but he&#8217;s not doing much to add people to that group. He&#8217;s got to get money and spend it quickly. Since our last update, Boyd comes out <strong>EVEN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Feda Morton &#8211; Ugh. This has been a disastrous time period for Morton&#8217;s campaign. She&#8217;s hammered by the release of child-custody case information (more on that later) and today she was hit by strong allegations of plagiarism. Her statement on the plagiarism allegations was horrible, as it&#8217;s pretty clear that the plagiarism happened. Add all of that to a severe lack of money and it&#8217;s not looking good. Since our last update, Morton comes out <strong>STRONGLY DOWN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Laurence Verga &#8211; Verga&#8217;s advertising on radio, but his latest ad repeats the same &#8220;Robert Hurt Raises Taxes&#8221; crap. If it wasn&#8217;t for that, I&#8217;d have thought that Verga&#8217;s campaign had mailed it in. Since our last update, Verga comes out <strong>EVEN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now for some thoughts and observations&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At this stage of the game, <strong>EVEN<\/strong> ain&#8217;t gonna cut it. The finish line is finally in sight and every candidate should have already started throwing everything they have into their campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>Feda Morton is a very nice person, however I&#8217;m fearing that we&#8217;re watching her campaign implode. It&#8217;s not pretty.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s one &#8220;observer&#8221; in this race who is completely useless. He&#8217;s made up his own prediction numbers under the guises of &#8220;best educated guess&#8221; and adjusts them wildly based on how the wind changes.<\/li>\n<li>Today (Wednesday), both the Danville &amp; Lynchburg Tea Party leaders came out with their endorsements. One was well-written and one was unexpectedly bizarre. It&#8217;s way too early for SC&#8217;s endorsement on this race.<\/li>\n<li>Even though the Tea Party leaders came out with their endorsements, the other members of the groups seem to be in disagreement with their choices (especially in Danville).<\/li>\n<li>Money is the factor that&#8217;s determining the tiers of campaigns. The more money that the candidate has, the better they&#8217;re going to do. It&#8217;s a sad but true fact.<\/li>\n<li>Feda Morton&#8217;s child-custody issues have no relevance to her campaign and anybody that thinks that they do is a jerk. Divorces can be nasty and crap like that is useless when pulled out years later. Morton&#8217;s a good person and nothing like those documents make her out to be.<\/li>\n<li>That being said, the plagiarism stuff isn&#8217;t good for Morton at all. Her statement about it completely blew it off and that&#8217;s compounded the negativity.<\/li>\n<li>I firmly believe that this primary election will be decided by the Lynchburg &amp; Southside areas because the Charlottesville region seems to be split by the home-area candidates. The candidates have got to get advertising &amp; name-recognition in Southside to have a chance in the election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. 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