Circular firing squad in 24th District GOP State Senate primary

By: kestrel9000
Published On: 5/31/2007 8:19:09 PM

(Note: this diary has been edited to correct a factual error.)
I just had to show some love to the SWACs last night. Sometimes, I just can't help myself.
 
6. kestrel9000 - May 30, 2007

  Munch munch munch munch munch.
  Crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch.
  Wife: "Honey, what are you watching?
  Me: "The replicants eating each other's young. World class circular firing squad."
  Wife: "That's wonderful, dear. Can I get you some more popcorn?"
  Me: "Yes, and another beer, please, babe."
  Wife: "Can I hear the Rodney atkins cd while you're blogivating?"
  Me: 'You bet, babe."
  I'm watching you, hey ain't that cool?
  Munch munch munch munch munch.
  Crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch.
  Damn, this is fun.
  Don't mind me. As you were. By all means, continue.

It's bring your own popcorn below the fold.
As you may be aware, incumbent GOP State Senator Emmett Hanger is facing a primary challenge from R. Scott Sayre, the owner of Sayre Enterprise in Lexington. With a leadoff by VCAP air ing radio spots featuring a braying donkey and likening Hanger to a Democrat, his entire campaign strategy seems to be a one-note sonata: attack the incumbent for voting for horrible lib'rul tax increases.

And this little tidbit:

Master's degree from Liberty University

Brrrrrrrrr. He wins the general election, I am UNREPRESENTED, for all intents and purposes.

Another tidbit from Sayre's website:

And a Virginia which respects and protects the rights of law abiding citizens, without rewarding those who choose to break the law.

OK, that's all good and fine. But there seems to be a bit of a problem.

Local conservative blogger and gadfly Myron Rhodes, aka Republitarian , just threw what could well be a major bomb into the battle for the hearts, minds, and votes of the conservative "values voters" in the 24th.

This from the Republitarian thread that started the whole dustup:

I received some very disturbing information last night concerning Scott Sayre.

His wife apparently has some issues with alcohol. This is evidenced by 2 DWI charges over the last 4 years, with one of them being as recent as 2006. We all know that if if you've gotten caught twice?.you've done it more than twice. The info I received also claimed that eyewitnesses have seen Scott inebriated at the country club in Lexington. Case # for first offense GV03000972-00. Case # for second offense GT063034-00.

I do not know the circumstances surrounding these events. It is up to you to follow up on this if it concerns you.


The response from the Sayre supporters was swift, and livid.

From Virginia Virtucon:

Supporters of incumbent Sen. Emmet Hanger have set up a blog called "Bloggers4Hanger" where they attack challenger Scott Sayre's wife, claim that she is a habitual drunk driver and have every link to every supposed article or comment go to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving website.  They do not address Sayre on the issues and only offer empty platitudes for their candidate.  They make suggestions that Sayre should perform lewd sexual acts.  It is really quite incredible and one of the sleaziest things I've ever seen in Virginia politics.

Emmet Hanger needs to condemn such ugly tactics immediately.  If he doesn't, we can only assume that he approves of this type of vitriolic mudslinging.


But you must read the rest.

Meet SWAC girl. Then there's Alex Davis, aka Jonathan Maxfield, who initially stated that he was a lawyer in his early 30s, then was revealed to be a 20ish college student, as I understand it.
(This was the kid who threw himself into Mike Stark at a George Allen campaign stop at the Weyers Cave airport, screaming, "He hit me! He hit me!")

Unmasked as a fraud, and the SWACs still deal with him.

Especially SWACgirl.

Hot replicant love?

Dunno. No idea.

Anyway, there's just too much goodies on "Maxfield's" site to break it all down. Go and have a look.

Oh, you're gonna love this: (also available at Virginia Virtucon)


Remember what that picture was captioned the LAST time you saw it?

Advice young Mr. Davis would do well to heed, methinks.

Especially since, as a Bush-War supporter of prime military age, he has no excuse not to show his support for his President's war by immediately enlisting in the Army or Marines and insisting on deployment as quickly as possible to TRULY support his President's military adventure.

Just another "stay at home and support the war effort" chickenhawk - a category of individuals I personally consider to be as vile a pack of killers as William Calley.

Back to Republitarian :

The SWAC bloggers report that some of Scott Sayre's signs were vandalized in the last few days.

I have heard that occassionally supporters will go around vandalizing the signs of the candidate they support so that their candidate looks like the victim.  It is a great way to get a free story and get more name ID.

I'm not saying it happened in this instance, but it could have.

Tampering with political signage is a serious, outrageous offense?almost as bad a drunk driving?in some peoples' eyes.

I tend to believe Myron is spot on in his conjecture. Why?

Go here.

Funny thing, I happened to run into Emmett Hanger yesterday morning. He has a hell of a poker face, but I may well have been the first one to point him to the dustup on Republitarian. If I wasn't, he certainly didn't want me to know it: I was introduced to him by our station's public service director as "Eddie the Democrat." Those weren't the words he used, but it's close enough.

Then there was the Hanger/Sayre appearance on WSVA this morning.......go to Republitarian for more on that.

Heh.

I could go on all night. But I won't. I'll leave you with this final thought I posted to Republitarian:

Myron, you've sure got the SWACies' knickers in a twist. You remind me of Sean Penn at the end of "Taps" cranking that .50 out the window at his own countrymen, and ecstatically shouting, "It's beautiful, man!" Did you know one whiner on Virginia Virtucon accused you of hiding behind anonymity? Heh.
Ah, yes, this is going to be an interesting general election, any way you slice it. Hanger survives his primary, I eagerly await the formation of "Republicans for Sime." Sayre wins? Well, boys and girls, the electorate faces a choice between a man running on his anti-taxes one note-sonata (encumbered by the moral baggage that seems to be popping onto the conveyer belt in abundance) who funds employee health benefits by putting up soda machines?.(Annual payroll of 3 million dollars divided by 120 employees equals about fifteen grand a year. Wonder what Mr. Sayre rakes in a year???)?.or a man of faith who genuinely cares about the people of his district on each and every level: their health, their children, their happiness, their prosperity, and their spirit.

I'm going to throw something out here. Remember this was the first place you heard this, it won't be the last.

Which element has atomic number 27?

The tubez of the internetz are soon to become exponentially more interesting.


My email addy is in my profile.

Are you a Democratic brass-knuckle blogger in VA's 6th Congressional district? If so, please send me an email.

Soon.


Comments



There's more at (Lowell - 6/1/2007 7:52:20 AM)
Democratic Central.


Ah, glorious! (Matusleo - 6/1/2007 8:06:50 AM)
I so love seeing the GOP eat their young like this.  The more and more the conservatives try to take over the party, the fewer and fewer of them there will be.

Thanks for this delicious montage!

Matusleo
Ut Prosim



More on the sign vandalism stuff (kestrel9000 - 6/1/2007 9:53:57 AM)
here.


Sayre (libra - 6/1/2007 10:26:08 PM)
is getting in a stew over this:

His wife apparently has some issues with alcohol. This is evidenced by 2 DWI charges over the last 4 years,

?????

Why on earth? If drunk-driving -- by your wife *and* you is not an obstacle to becoming a president of US, what's Sayre's worry? Surely, the VA voters aren't any more picky than those in the rest of the country?

I didn't know Sayre was a "local" (I'm in "Lextropolis"). Perhaps that explains why there's a preponderance of Sayre signs around. It would be an interesting race here, if Sayre got nominated, since his Dem opponent -- David Cox -- is a "local", also.