Augusta County Election night 2011...

Supervisor-elect Michael Shull with his family at the Augusta County Republican headquarters after learning he won the Riverheads Supervisor seat...

Augusta County Commissioner of Revenue Jean Shrewsbury and Augusta County Treasurer Richard Homes...

Delegate Richard "Dickie" Bell (20th District House)...

Augusta County Republican Headquarters ~2010~....

Augusta County GOP Headquarters
opens TODAY and the Grand Opening Friday at 3:30

Congressman Bob Goodlatte will be attending!
Invitations have been sent to Senator Emmett Hanger and Delegates Steve Landes, Ben Cline and Dickie Bell

Calling all Volunteers: Contact Georgia Long, HQ Coordinator, for schedule information, (galong@polyrad.net).


Proposed Hours:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 11 to 1:30 and 4 to 7
Saturday: 10 - 2.

HQ is located at one of the busiest intersection in Staunton...at the corner of Statler Boulevard and Richmond Road. What a great opportunity for you new folks to come out and meet your Congressman and Delegates, get involved and enjoy the fellowship!

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Congressman Tom Perriello (D) slip of tongue or truth?...

Congressman Tom Perriello (Democrat 5th district) has changed his wording of his "Favorite Quote" as shown here...

Was it a slip of the tongue the first time or did he say what he believes and has since changed his "Favorite Quote" to avoid problems during his campaign for re-election?...

Fortunately in this video a constituent at one of his townhall meetings called him on his "Favorite Quote" as the media should have done...

Keith Drake has some interesting points made here.....

This reminds me of another Democrat candidate for State Delegate who was running against Delegate Steve Landes this past November. Democrat candidate Greg Marrow made the following statement during a debate... and seen here: http://rightsideva.blogspot.com/2009/09/democrat-candidate-greg-marrow-thinks.html

Democratic Party Candidate Greg Marrow is running for the Delegate seat representing the VA 25th-district and during a debate last night stated that the $125 million dollars from the stimulus package not used for VA unemployment was"Free" money and "was lost to other states"

There seems to be an obvious pattern here with the views and agendas of our Democrat friends when it comes to our taxpayer money.....

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2010 Stuarts Draft Firemen's Parade...

Craig Shrewsbury with his truck that we used for the 2010 Stuarts Draft Firemen's Parade representing the Augusta County Republican Committee...

Congressmen Bob Goodlatte did stop by the parade line-up area for a short time but had to leave to get to the Bridgewater parade that he already committed to walk in. The Congressman's wife, Maryellen Goodlatte did elect to walk the Draft parade to represent the Congressmen...

Cougar Carwash in Stuarts Draft

Delegate Ben Cline greeting many of the people along the parade route.....

Maryellen Goodlatte and Delegate Steve Landes along the parade route....

Delegate Steve Landes

Delegate Ben Cline

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2010 Virginia Session ~Steve Landes~

Made the roadtrip to Richmond with fellow Conservative Chris Green to take in some of the 2010 session on the House side of the building and found it interesting to see our Virginia State government at work...
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Also had the opportunity to sit down with several of the Delegates from the Valley and their support staff to discuss local political and economic happenings...

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Delegate Steve Landes has been a strong Conservative from the Valley and I enjoyed volunteering with his campaign this last election time...

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Delegate Ben Cline

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Delegate Matt Lohr

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Delegate Dickie Bell

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RPV Advance ~2009~ and a 7-eleven with SCUBA access!!...

Had the opportunity to attend the breakfast session today of the RPV Advance being held in Williamsburg, VA. before coming back over the mountain to find five inches of SNOW in the Shenandoah Valley...

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While driving to Williamsburg this morning I had a chance to listen to "The Speech" by Ronald Reagan that he did back in 1964...

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For those of you who know this speech you know that many parts of it applies to the situation we are in once again and understand why many say this is the speech that launched Ronald Reagan's political career...

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"They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy."...

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Another interesting aspect of this speech is how closely it resembles the conservative beliefs of the then 2009 Republican Candidates and now elected Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, and Delegates that "Sweep-ed" Richmond and the Shenandoah Valley...

The voters of Virginia were obviously seeking proven conservative beliefs and principles during this past election and that is why Virginia is RED once again...

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"The Speech is available here and is well worth listening to it again...

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After the breakfast I took a ride down to Norfolk to check out the surf and found the "Ultimate 7-Eleven" along the beach with SCUBA access just 15 feet behind the building!

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Incredibly the bulkhead is just 15 feet behind the building and easy access could be made with a "Giant Stride" or "Jersey Roll" during high tide...

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Walk out to the beach found a good 20-25kt wind out of the Northeast, less than 6 inches of Vis,
3 to 4 foot breakers on the beach, and cold water temp...

Typical Jersey diving conditions...

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Hard to see in this photo but there was much apparent damage to the fishing pier on the horizon looking South...
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End of the sign season ~2009~...

Today brought the end of the ~2009~ Sign Campaign season with the removal of the GOP campaign signs from "The Barn" just South of Harrisonburg on route 81...

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Great location and always had motorist blaring their horns when we were there adding or moving campaign signs during the season. We were once asked how many people went by that barn and here is the best estimate I could find...

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From the VDOT website it is reported that on average 44,000 vehicles travel along route 81 at this location with "The Barn" being visible from both directions of traffic. Campaign signs for McDonnell \ Bolling \ Cuccinelli went up on July 10th until November 25th for a total of 138 days...

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44,000 avg. vehicles each day, 138 days, exposure to 6,072,000 vehicles...

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David... Great location, well run campaigns, impressive Candidates,

OUTSTANDING Results !!!

Now that was fun...

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Some of the Volunteers who made it happen in Staunton~Augusta~Waynesboro...S.A.W

Just some of the many GOP volunteers who made it happen in the Valley and S.A.W.

Staunton~Augusta~Waynesboro

Beverly Manor Supervisor Jeremy Shifflett working the polls near the Stuarts Draft Middle School...

South River district Chairwoman Gloria Stump, Kim Wiseman, Delegate Dickie Bell, and Anne Bell at the Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad building...

Theresa Hunt at Sherando...

Victory Celebration in Verona...

Staunton GOP Chairwoman Anne Fitzgerald working the results...

Delegates and hosts Dickie Bell and Steve Landes...

Delegate Steve Landes Campaign Manager Savanna Rutherford compiling the results...

Delegate Dickie Bell (20th) with the College Republicans that came up from Georgia and South Carolina to make the calls, go door-to-door, and practice the fine art of G.O.P. "Get Out the VOTE"!!!

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Outstanding job and part of the bright future of the G.O.P.

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"Thank-You" Virginia for making Obama see RED!!!

Bob McDonnell.....59%

Bill Bolling.....56%

Ken Cuccinelli.....58%

Steve Landes.....73%

Ben Cline.....71%

Dickie Bell.....71%

Matt Lohr.....73%

Tod Gilbert.....69%

Stop at the carwash...

Around 3pm I got a call from the local campaigns requesting that I get some large 4x8 signs over to the local hotel before the polls closed for the Victory celebration...

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Imagine the look that I got from the owner of the car wash operation when I showed up with a 4x8 sign for each of the State and local Republican campaigns and I started feeding quarters in the machine to wash the signs...

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He smiled, and then comped me the cost of the "sign washing" and congratulated the winning Virginia candidates...

Bob McDonnell and GOP Team~VA in Waynesboro...

Bob McDonnell stopped by Waynesboro with RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Bill Bolling for Lt. Governor, and Ken Cuccinelli for Attorney General, for a crowd estimated at 250+...

Delegate Steve Landes hosted this event and introduced the speakers...

Delegate Chris Saxman talks with numerous people in the crowd...

Attorney General Candidate Ken Cuccinelli talks with Augusta County Chairman Bill Shirley about local issues and efforts to elect a solid straight GOP ticket to Richmond for the next four years...

Brian Bridgeforth knows how to throw a good party. He was very much responsible for distributing over 3,000 flyers announcing the rally in Waynesboro...

Delegate Ben Cline