And I asked what the biggest issue was in the area, which is devastated economically.

The answer: Transportation.

She said people down there were just as frustrated about the situation as folks in NoVa. She explained that new road construction is needed in places like Brunswick County where there are many roads that are not paved.

Similarly, rural counties need infrastructure improvements, including roads suitable for large trucks, for economic development to take hold.

For example, there has been a Rt. 29 Bypass on the drawing board for all of the 11 years I've lived here in C'ville. While it would alleviate our traffic problems (you folks in NoVa take that in context, please), the real benefit of that bypass would go to Lynchburg and Danville, but cutting travel time to NoVa.

While I understand that the situation in NoVa and Hampton Roads is dire, the need for new road construction as a means of fueling economic growth is a statewide problem. Not so NoVa taxes can subsidize rural areas of the state, but so people can become self-sufficient.  

in this effort? So far, all I have heard from the (equally) frustrated business folks is a petulant statement they will not contribute to "anyone" in the bad  legislature. If I hear that right, it means they are lumping the Democrats who tried for a solution in the trash along with the ugly republican obstructionists. If business is sincerely upset with the lack of results from the legislature, wouldn't they be selective in their anger... or is it that they just cannot bring themselves to diss republicans, and so tar the earnest Democrats in the same bin-of-ugly-politicians to which they had, perforce, to consign republicans? If this is true, some one should introduce the business community to "enlightened self interest."

Here is yet another proof that Republicans are NOT the party of business, only the party of megabusiness, and it is Democrats who are on the side of small and medium-sized business interest.

Identify six or seven that are in swing areas, hit them hard by identifying projects that will have to be cut back or cancelled due to no funding, and then start the advertising.

Does us no good to complain in true-blue NoVa, there aren't 51 house districts here, even if you include Hampton Roads.  The battlefield is out in the rest of VA.

We are registering voters in Senate 37 / House 40 precincts from our soon to be opened space in Centreville tomorrow at 10AM.

The office is on the southeast corner of Lee Highway and Machen Road in Centreville at 14260 Centreville Square, Suite N.

Contact Obama organizer Famid Simha at 540.394.9998 to help out.

--morris meyer

And I can say that people are organizing to take on Morgan Griffith.  We are going to form a regional PAC to help our candidate - whoever they may be - and to build the democratic infrastructure.  Morgan is more vulnerable than he may seem (Mike Breiner, D for state senate, won in Salem and Roanoke County, something even Mark Warner wasn't able to do) and he has been out in front of obstructing transportation legislation.  Morgan acts as if we don't need transportation just as badly as NOVA.  He doesn't seem to understand that slowing the regional economy slows the state economy.  Morgan acts as if he were, well, out of touch.  And a lot of people feel that way.  

Also, two other targets should be Dave Nutter, who has Blacksburg in his district, and the woman from Pulaski - I always forget her name.  Pulaski despratly  needs some attention and I don't think it matters what party they come from.  We have not had very good candidates there.  But if we tried, I bet we could take all three of these seats.  And taking out Morgan would a be a coup.  Think about what happened after the republicans took out the infinantly more talented Tom Daschle.  The dems were in spins.