Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Jim Gilmore's "Working People" Tour Kickoff
I just returned from Capitol Square where Jim Gilmore officially kicked off his Senate campaign, by hosting a press conference focusing on "working people."
From the Jim Gilmore campaign:
Alexandria - The Jim Gilmore for Senate Campaign of former Gov. Jim Gilmore, now a candidate for the Virginia U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Senator John Warner, will kick-off the campaign June 10th with a fly around expressing support for Virginia’s working families. The fly around will be followed in coming weeks by visits to 40 cities and localities in what the Gilmore campaign is billing as a “Working Families Tour.”
All media are welcome to attend the fly around news conferences Tuesday which will be held in Richmond, Norfolk and Northern Virginia. Roanoke, Bristol, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Winchester, Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Danville, Petersburg and Virginia Beach are among the cities that will be stops for the “Working Families Tour” to take place in coming weeks.
Of course, the conference was scheduled at 9:30 in the morning, when most working people are at their jobs, so the event was mostly attended by media members, college students like me, retired people who don't have jobs during the daytime, and people who work with government or politics for a living. In other words, there weren't any working people with shovels or pick-axes or whatever usually comes to mind when you hear the words "working people."
I got there early and so I grabbed a front row seat, which was perfect for picture-taking.
Delegate Bill Janis got the party started when he welcomed everyone to the conference. Newly minted Republican Party of Virginia chairman Jeff Frederick then spoke, as did Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, and Attorney General Bob McDonnell. All four gentlemen gave lavish praise to former Governor Jim Gilmore. Then Gilmore spoke for the rest of the conference, followed by questions from the media (WaPo reporter Tim Craig sat directlybehind me).
The common theme from the conference was that Mark Warner cannot be trusted on taxes and that higher taxes hurt families and "working people." A secondary theme that Gilmore has been stressing extensively is energy independence.
But perhaps the highlight of the conference was when Gilmore exclaimed:
Mark Warner is an elite limousine liberal!
I love press conferences.
# posted by Steven Latimer : 11:37 AM
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