Re: question for Forbes / submitting the Guardian piece
Subject: Re: question for Forbes / submitting the Guardian piece
From: Jonathan Farley <lattice.theory@gmail.com>
Date: 10/11/10, 16:49
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

OK, I like it, although I could shorten it.   (See below.)  It's less funny of course.
 
 I'll also need Antonio's mailing address and telephone number and fax number./JDF
 


 
On 11 October 2010 16:32, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, I forgot to paste the press release in; I've done so this time. Also, the campaign manager's e-mail is Antonio@legrowforuscongress.com. 


A few days back, The Tidewater News ran an editorial about Congressman Randy Forbes:

Curiously, though, Forbes was unresponsive to an invitation by the Virginia Peninsula League of Women Voters to take on LeGrow in a debate. He’s also been unresponsive to our newspaper’s attempt to find out why he shunned the debate invitation. That’s unusual for Forbes, a straight-up guy whose re-election bids we have endorsed over the years.

We would respectfully submit that a longtime politician who refuses to debate his opponent and who ignores questions submitted to him by a friendly newspaper is probably not a “straight-up guy” at all, but rather an un-straight one---there's another word for that---who would prefer that the voters not have a chance to compare their candidates side-by-side, lest they conclude that it’s time to send a better, more competent representative to Washington. Forbes’ message for those who have elected him: he wants your vote, not your input.

Starting tomorrow, the LeGrow campaign will ask Forbes a question each day, in the unlikely event that they will break with Forbes campaign policy, and help to inform the voters.