{"id":6942,"date":"2010-05-25T23:24:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T03:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2010-05-25T23:24:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T03:24:13","slug":"another-5th-district-forum-ha-ha-ho-hum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/25\/another-5th-district-forum-ha-ha-ho-hum\/","title":{"rendered":"Another 5th District forum. Ha Ha! Ho Hum."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, the Crazy Crew of Candidates make their way to Liberty University!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.newsadvance.com\/lna\/news\/local\/article\/fifth_district_candidates_face_off\/27343\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fifth District candidates face off<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go to the not-so-relevant points&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Hurt wasn&#8217;t there due to a prior commitment&#8230; but it&#8217;s a pretty good strategy now to let the other candidates implode.<\/li>\n<li>Everybody Hates Hurt &#8211; because he&#8217;s clearly in the lead now. Even Mike McPadden is taking shots at him, but only about &#8220;not showing leadership in the State Senate&#8221;? Hello? Boing? If one of these candidates wins the November election, they&#8217;re going to have no leadership opportunities at all. Who cares?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Robert Hurt raised taxes!&#8221; &#8211; The same blah blah blah over and over again. I&#8217;ll counter that with the same thing I&#8217;ve said in the past. Charles Hawkins &amp; Danny Marshall voted for the same thing. Nobody&#8217;s calling them &#8220;tax-raisers&#8221;. I understand why the candidates are sticking with the &#8220;Hurt Raised Taxes&#8221; line&#8230; it&#8217;s really all they&#8217;ve got to use against him with the clock running out in the game.<\/li>\n<li>Jim McKelvey continues to play the part of The Angry Man. His bus picked up an endorsement from Mark Lloyd, the chairman of the Lynchburg Tea Party. He&#8217;s got a poll from the Not Really Rasmussen Company saying that he&#8217;s number 2. Insert your own &#8220;Number 2&#8221; joke there, folks.<\/li>\n<li>Feda Morton copies the same statements she&#8217;s said at the other forums, which is slightly different from copying other people&#8217;s statements. Coincidentally, she&#8217;s done that also.<\/li>\n<li>Laurance Verga was seen by a majority of the people that attended this forum, so that&#8217;s pretty good proof that he&#8217;s still in the campaign. Looking at the Not Really Rasmussen Poll brought to you by the Vance Wilkins Company, Verga&#8217;s got 1% support. Based on the margin of error of the &#8220;reputable&#8221; poll, that means Verga&#8217;s support could really be between 6.5% or negative 4.5%. Insert your own joke there as well.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of hilarious jokes, the Ron Ferrin Stand-Up Comedy Hour was at Liberty as well. It featured that old &#8220;Adam &amp; Steve&#8221; kneeslapper that&#8217;s always good for a laugh from the conservative crowd.<\/li>\n<li>Ken Boyd is to be commended for making it close to the Southside area.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Hurt gets a score of zero for this forum because he didn&#8217;t show up due to that prior commitment.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m getting so sick of hearing the Crazy Crew of Candidates say the same thing, so that score of squadoosh wins the forum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you tell I&#8217;m getting tired of these repetitive forums? 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