{"id":7200,"date":"2010-08-20T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T05:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2010-08-20T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T05:50:07","slug":"some-thoughts-about-tom-perriellos-town-hall-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/20\/some-thoughts-about-tom-perriellos-town-hall-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts about Tom Perriello&#8217;s town hall meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Perriello has been around the SouthsideCentral area doing his town hall meetings over the past week. I&#8217;ve got some &#8220;random thoughts&#8221; about how it&#8217;s gone so far.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Southside tour started with <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.godanriver.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/17\/3\/dozens-chatham-turn-out-town-hall-ar-456917\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chatham on Monday<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.godanriver.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/17\/perriello-feels-heat-danville-stop-ar-459416\/\" target=\"_blank\">Danville on Tuesday<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsvillebulletin.com\/article.cfm?ID=24922\" target=\"_blank\">Martinsville on Wednesday<\/a>, and South Boston on Thursday. Let&#8217;s go to the &#8220;random thoughts&#8221; board&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attendance seems to be way down compared to last year, and that&#8217;s a big surprise to me with this being an election year. What&#8217;s the reason? Health care reform was the dominating issue last year, but there doesn&#8217;t seem to be one dominating issue out there.<\/li>\n<li>The attendance may be down, but the cordiality is significantly up. The ones I&#8217;ve seen have been nowhere like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/05\/some-thoughts-about-tonights-tom-in-your-town-event-in-danville\/\" target=\"_blank\">the one last year in Danville<\/a>&#8230; except for one glaring example.<\/li>\n<li>Gary Bender (at the Danville meeting) was an embarrassment to himself. I&#8217;ll say what I said last year&#8230; &#8220;I don\u2019t give a damn if you hate the man and think he\u2019s Satan. He deserves a degree of respect no matter what.&#8221; Bender (in a two+ minute crazy-ass rant) called Perriello a \u201cliar and a hypocrite\u201d before getting booed (rightfully) by the audience.<\/li>\n<li>Has anyone ever seen Tom Perriello in anything except a light blue dress shirt and a red tie?<\/li>\n<li>Some people are complaining about the times that these town hall meetings have been scheduled for, with some starting at 7:30 AM. With the number of meetings that Perriello has scheduled, those complaints are horsecrap. There&#8217;s no way that everybody can be pleased and to have the meetings at various times throughout the day is a good idea. If you didn&#8217;t like the Chatham 7:30 AM start time on Monday, you could easily drive the short distance to Danville for the 6:00 PM meeting on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More random thoughts to come&#8230;<\/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>Tom Perriello has been around the SouthsideCentral area doing his town hall meetings over the past week. 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