Fimian is the right man for the job
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Angeli Martin
Published: September 14, 2008
Unlike Keith’s opponent, Keith Fimian is not a career politician and he is not a member of the political establishment. While Keith’s opponent was busy mismanaging Fairfax County finances for more
than five years, Keith fimian was busy managing a thriving small business.
Although I live in Prince William County, I was a productive worker in Fairfax County for more than 10 years. I recently lost my job due to budget constraints!
I believe in the American dream, this is why I decided to further my education so that I can make a difference in our communities and my family. I graduated from college in 2006 with honors with a
Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, but to my dismay I am having a hard time securing new employment. In order to secure Virginia’s future and to maintain a viable workforce where educated, skilled
and creative people will be attracted to the area WE MUST put Virginians back to work!
Keith Fimian will fight to preserve Virginia’s prosperity in a time of economic uncertainty, he knows what it takes to create jobs, and he has a 22-year record to prove it. A vote for Keith Fimian is a vote for
personal freedom and a responsible government!
ANGELI MARTIN
Gainesville
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Posted by ( willow703 ) on September 29, 2008 at 7:53 am
Ray, There’s a man who has been missing in our southwestern desert for several months now; a well-qualified pilot, successful businessman, multi-millionaire. What was his failing? A medevac helicopter crashed a day ago, 4 people dead. Was the pilot a bad pilot? Was he “last in his class”? You know that many military, business & government leaders finished in the lower portions of their classes.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on September 22, 2008 at 3:13 pm
willow, first, I did not know McCain’s flying career went back to WWI, but I guess he is old enough, now that I think about it. Second, a lot more pilots NEVER lost an aircraft. Everyone can’t be Top Gun and I’m sure McCain did the best he could with his last-in-class talents. At least he served while Bush partied.
Second, the financial firestorm is happening under the current administration’s watch. It is funny to watch McCain run from his record of supporting Bush 90% of the time, but he can’t outrun the record once its in the books. McCain has supported deregulation of banking and other industries and supports (or did) the privation of Social Security. I understand YOU are smart enough not to fall for it, but look at the millions of people who purchased homes because a mortgage lender told them it was a “good investment”. Had these same people put their retirement into the stock market we would need more than the Chinese to bail us out.
Perhaps if McCain had voted “present” instead of “I’ve got your back George” he would not lack the credibility that he does. You want 4 more years of this for your grandchildren? Then you know where to cast your vote. Me? I’m voting Nov 4th to save my infant granddaughter’s financial future.
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Posted by ( kgotthardt ) on September 22, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Correction:
“Here’s some great Catholic Bashing brought to you by John Stirrup VIA NEWLY APPOINTED ROBERT DUECASTER.“
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Posted by ( kgotthardt ) on September 22, 2008 at 11:56 am
Here’s some great Catholic Bashing brought to you by John Stirrup and supported by that self-labeled “devout Catholic” Corey stewart:
Regarding the Pope “He’ll be pandering to them to gather members to replace those who left the Church due to the institutionalized approval of his priests’ penchant for little boys’ behinds.“
“What I find ironic is that the Pope will preach to us to accept the Illegal Invaders so that his church can replace its members who have left due to the incessant kiddie diddling of its priests.”
The moral of this story: there are few morals demonstrated by our politicians who claim to be “devout” in their religion.
Stewart and Stirrup and all who voted for Duecaster: you have condemned yourselves and betrayed your churches.
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Posted by ( do the right thing ) on September 22, 2008 at 6:33 am
This article in the Examiner says all that is needed to be said about Connolly.
Catholic-bashing, courtesy of Connolly
Examiner Staff Writer 9/21/08
House minority leader John Boehner is urging Democratic leaders to stop a vicious anti-Catholic smear campaign against Republican congressional candidate Keith Fimian, who is challenging Democrat Gerry Connolly for a rare open seat in Virginia’s 11th District. All 157 Catholics currently serving in the House, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, should join their 25 Catholic colleagues in the Senate to denounce this vile attempt to denigrate their fitness for office.
Postcards mailed to voters on behalf of Connolly by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) portray the Fairfax County businessman as anti-women because he sits on the board of Legatus, a group of traditional Catholic CEOs founded by Domino’s Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan and endorsed by the late Pope John Paul II. Catholic League president Bill Donohue condemned the scurrilous ads as blatant “Catholic bashing” and demanded that Connolly publicly denounce them. Instead, the Democrat repeated the smears on TV.
Judging by the DCCC ads, the main issue in Northern Virginia isn’t energy independence, the faltering economy, taxes, or the war in Iraq. It’s women’s rights. But this is a dangerous line of attack for Connolly, a former seminarian who has some explaining of his own to do.
On May 19, the Fairfax Board chairman voted to extend a $2.2 million lease to the Saudi Islamic Academy, a madrassa known by local law enforcement as “Terror High”. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported that textbooks used in the school justify the murder of non-Muslims and “do not conform to international human rights norms.” During public hearings, Connolly repeatedly characterized any criticism of the Saudi government-run school as “slander.” This supposed champion of women even apologized to the headmaster - who later pleaded guilty to obstructing justice for failing to report suspected sexual abuse of a five-year-old girl.
Federal Election Commission records may explain Connolly’s kid-glove treatment of a school run by a government with one of the world’s worst records on women’s rights. Employees and PACs run by two American firms listed as registered agents for the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia have funneled tens of thousands of petrodollars to Connolly and the DCCC – which paid for the ads that falsely accuse Fimian of wanting to force women to be more “submissive,” ignoring their own benefactor’s appalling record of doing exactly that.
The DCCC has gone over the line this time, and Catholic politicians in both parties should demand an apology.
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Posted by ( willow703 ) on September 20, 2008 at 7:08 am
Ray,
The number of jets John McCain has crashed, i.e. caused to go down by his deliberate actions or inaction may be one; that went into Corpus Christi Bay due to undetermined causes.(the SwiftBoaters are at it again) He was shot down in one; one crashed after engine failure; one was hit by a rocket from another while sitting on the deck of the USS Forrestall. He clipped some wires in Spain, but didn’t crash. Many
well-known military pilots crashed planes; it was a common occurrence in World War I.
As for his trying to hide crashes by refusing to release his military records, records of accidents involving military personnel are not the property of the personnel involved. The decision to release information is not theirs to make. If you have an auto accident on which the police make a report; you can’t prevent them from releasing that report; it doesn’t belong to you.
So, the chairman of the SEC came up with a plan for bailing out(Relax buddy, were with) AIG? Where was he while all these
shenanigans were going on?
According to an Obama spokesman, Sen. Obama came up with Sen. McCain’s solution a week before Sen. McCain. It’s strange that the news media missed that opportunity to continue their deification of Sen. Obama.
Now, perhaps you can enlighten me as to why Sen. Obama voted, “present”, 130 times while an Illinois state senator & why, as an Illinois state senator, he opposed a bill that would have given a child born alive, after a botched abortion, the legal protections afforded all other citizens.
And why is removing the cap on the amount of salary subject to FICA tax not a tax increase? Where is Sen. Obama’s solution to the Social Security problem?
Does he think I would have been too stupid to have put a part of my account into T-bills or other government issued securities when I had the chance? That seems to be the view of the current crowd of Democrats.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on September 19, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I’m with you on the ship of state willow. Based on McCain’s record of crashing a number of Navy jets, I’ll take my chances with Obama on both leadership and smooth sailing.
McCain’s the guy that yesterday wanted to fire the SEC chairman that helped develop the bailout plan introduced today. Under McCain, we’d be tossing the baby out with the bathwater.
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Posted by ( kgotthardt ) on September 19, 2008 at 7:48 am
http://luxuriouschoices.blogspot.com/2008/09/who-is-keith-fimian.html
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Posted by ( willow703 ) on September 18, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Ray,
Leadership? Isn’t that what every candidate for elected office promises? I don’t need leaders, I need competent employees; that is what all elected officials are, employees.
The President may try to lead Congress, but if Congress doesn’t want to follow the result is a one man parade.
Do you think that Sen. McCain is so stupid as to try to get through the
Democrat controlled House a continuation
of the Bush agenda? Do you beleive that
Sen. Obama could get through a cloture proof Senate anything with which Republicans & conservative Democrats disagreed?
I’m not asking for much. All I’m asking is that when the next President takes the ship of state out of the harbor, he not sink it.
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Posted by ( phdee ) on September 18, 2008 at 11:03 am
Let’s not forget that under the Reagan era deregulation was abandoned. And we had trickle down economics. Now people are clamoring for regulation. Reagan was a total dud!!
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