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If Tom Garrett were a gentleman he would distance himself from his own party and their disgusting lies about Bert Dodson and Lynchburg.    Before this insulting TV Ad campaign paid for by the state GOP Garrett said downtown Lynchburg was a ghost town with store windows shuttered by plywood and wild dogs roaming the streets.      

 If this kind of garbage is all the tea party republicans have to offer they are out of gas with their sorry campaign.   Tom Garrett is desperate and unqualified to hold the office he runs for.

Here is a photo I took of downtown Lynchburg during a recent street festival.   It appears to be quite alive with celebrating citizens and I didn’t see any of Tom Garrett’s imaginary plywood.

There were dogs and their owners on the streets.   None of the dogs were wild.    Buster Brown is the Craddock Terry Hotel’s mascot and Buster is very civilized and well behaved.   The tea party and the republicans are spreading outright lies about Lynchburg, Bert Dodson and Buster Brown.   Shame on Tom Garrett and his desperate, dirty campaign.

Virginia’s Republican Party weighed into the 22nd District state Senate race Tuesday, saying that Democrat Bert Dodson was part of what they called a spending boondoggle on the Lynchburg downtown Bluffwalk Center development during his time on City Council.

The GOP cited news accounts that reported Lynchburg had made about million in loan payments on behalf of the hotel and restaurant complex, while the tax revenue the city has collected so far from the Bluffwalk developer falls far short of that figure.

 “Bert Dodson might be new to state-level politics, but he’s obviously been learning at the feet of a master of spending boondoggles,” said a state GOP news release that compared Dodson to President Obama.

Dodson campaign spokesman Lonny Paris called the GOP assertion “a desperate and misleading attempt by the Republican Party of Virginia to confuse the issues and play games of guilt by association that are a new low to the level of discourse in this race.”

 Bert Dodson for the Virginia Senate

Visit Bert’s web site at this link 
http://www.dodsonforsenate.com/Bert

 Dodson’s campaign has a continuing need for volunteers to help with their Get Out the Vote effort.  A high voter turnout in Lynchburg is essential to a Dodson victory on November 8. 

Contact Dodson Campaign Political Director Gerald Cheatham in Lynchburg and let him know how and when you can help out.  Gerald’s telephone number is 434-851-2475 and his email address is      gicheatham@comcast.net

Bert’s campaign office in Lynchburg is located at:
1022 Commerce Street, Suite F (2nd Floor)
Lynchburg, VA 24504
Office Phone:  434-851-4885

Contact information for campaign staff:

Campaign Manager
 Lonny Paris
 202-957-4551parislonny@gmail.com

Political Director
 Gerald Cheatham
 434-851-2475gicheatham@comcast.net

Field Director
 Kody Roza
 916-521-5915kodyjroza@gmail.com

Wednesday, October 19, 7:00 PM –  Bert will debate his Republican opponent in Schewel Hall on the campus of

Lynchburg College.    The event is sponsored by Lynchburg College and the League of Women Voters.     The regularly scheduled meeting of the LDC for the month of October is canceled so that members can attend the debate.
      

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Absolutely devastating testimony yesterday from Medicare’s independent economic expert Richard Foster before the House Budget Committee. In essence, in response to direct questions, Foster blew up the rationale for Obamacare and placed the president and his party in the uncomfortable position of having to explain why they lied to the American people about the two main selling points for the program.

Peter Wehner:

Mr. Foster was asked by Republican Tom McClintock for a simple true or false response on two of the main assertions made by supporters of the law: that it will bring down unsustainable medical costs and it will let people keep their current health insurance if they like it.
On the costs issue, “I would say false, more so than true,” Foster responded. As for people getting to keep their coverage, “not true in all cases.”

Foster also sided with those who argue that moving toward a defined contribution model is much more likely to keep health-care costs down than the kind of centralized, top-down price controls that are in ObamaCare.

Finally, in an exchange with Representative John Campbell of California, Foster blew up the claim that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Medicare provisions could both reduce the deficit and extend the solvency of Medicare, as President Obama has claimed. Mr. Foster pointed out the obvious: this isn’t possible unless you double-count the savings.

“Is it legitimate to say,” Campbell asked, “that you can add a dozen years to the solvency of Medicare or that you can reduce the deficit, but it is not correct to say both simultaneously?”

“Both will happen as a result of the same one set of savings, under Medicare,” Foster said. “But it takes two sets of money to make it happen. It happens directly for the budget deficit, from the Medicare savings, and then when we need the money to extend the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, we have a promissory note – it’s an IOU, not a worthless IOU, but it is an IOU – and Treasury has to pay that money back. But they have to get it from somewhere. That’s the missing link.”

Recall that Obamacare opponents were not told they were wrong about these two assertions; they were not told they misunderstood what was in the bill; they were not told to go back and reread the sections in question.

The Democrats have been saying that Republicans are lying about these two assertions being wrong.

If a Democrat lies in the forest and the media doesn’t report it, is it still a lie?

Written by: Rick Moran
Source: American Thinker

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