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Wednesday, July 2, 2008 "When news breaks, we fix it" Serving West Virginia since 2005
Russ Weeks: An American Life
YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS
Hillary & Joe: A Love Story (Please adjust volume)
Greear HQ event draws full house
Capito opens office tonight
Attorney General candidate Dan Greear welcomed a packed room of supporters and dignitaries to the grand opening of his campaign headquarters Tuesday evening in South Charleston.Greear spoke about the importance of the AG's race and expressed his gratitude for the support he has received so far.Tonight, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito is officially opening her campaign headquarters.Her event will be held from 5-7 p.m. at the corner of 48th St. and MacCorkle Ave. in Kanawha City.Howell lauds Court ruling on DC guns
Supreme Court candidate Beth Walker has been campaigning actively across West Virginia in recent weeks, winning support and discussing her view of the role of a Supreme Court justice. Above, Beth recently joined hundreds of people from the Westside community at Stonewall Jackson Jr. High School in Charleston for free ice cream as part of the FestivALL celebration. Beth is shown handing ice cream to some of the people who attended the event.
Walker campaigning actively across the state
Gary Howell, candidate for the State Senate from the 14th District, said this week he commends the United States Supreme Court for overturning last week the Washington D.C. ban on handgun ownership and reaffirming the protections afforded by the Second Amendment.“The decision by the Court is good news for all of us who care about the right to keep and bear arms,” said Howell. “In West Virginia, we especially value the protections of the Second Amendment, so this ruling is particularly good news in the Mountain State.”Howell warned, though, that the narrow 5-4 decision signals that those who value the rights guaranteed by the Constitution must remain vigilant.“It is obviously imperative that citizens continue to elect candidates to office who will protect all of our rights, from the president to the local level,” said Howell.Howell is a longtime member of the NRA who owns and operates Howell Automotive in Keyser.HELP WANTED
The Republican Gazette is in need of a talented editorial cartoonist. Must be able to translate ideas into professional-level cartoons poking fun at Democrat candidates, the Democrat Party, the governor, the attorney general, the West Virginia Supreme Court, the WVU Board of Governors, and others. The position offers very low pay and no benefits, but provides the opportunity to have your work seen by potentially millions of viewers. Apply by sending at least three samples of your work to gary@abernathystrategies.com.
McCain's foreign policy advisor responds to Obama about Iraq
(Press Release) On Tuesday, John McCain's campaign Foreign Policy Advisor Randy Scheunemann issued the following statement in response to Obama National Co-Chair Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) saying Barack Obama would not change his position on Iraq even if meant sacrificing the progress currently being made:"During an appearance on MSNBC this afternoon Missouri Senator and Obama surrogate Claire McCaskill was read a quote from the new issue of The New Yorker in which George Packer asserts that Obama's plan for a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq would 'revive the badly wounded al Qaeda in Iraq, reenergize the Sunni insurgency, embolden Moqtada al-Sadr and return the central government to a state of collapse.' Asked whether Senator Obama might change course so as not to jeopardize the tremendous progress U.S. troops have made as a result of the surge, McCaskill responded flatly 'no, he will not.'"No one has been a more vocal critic of the Bush administration's conduct in Iraq than John McCain, who was among the first to push the change in strategy that has led to the gains in security there and who has returned to Iraq frequently in order to assess the shifting conditions there. The American people deserve a leader who will make decisions based not on ideology but on what most serves our national interests and in consultation with our commanders on the ground. If Obama is resolved to maintain his reckless commitment to immediate withdraw from Iraq just as our troops are on the cusp of victory, then his planned trip to the front will be nothing more than a photo-op, and a distraction to the brave men and women who are fighting and winning the war there."