Mitt Romney's comical Bill's Barbecue ad is another lie

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Thursday November 01, 2012 · 5:15 PM PDT

2012/11/01 · 17:15

I nearly did a spit take at work today when I glanced at the Richmond Times Dispatch at lunch. I had to wait until I got home to write about what I'd read.

Mitt Romney has an internet ad up claiming that Barack Obama is somehow responsible for the closure of the Bill's Barbecue chain in Richmond, Virginia in September of this year.

Before heading to Caroline County Romney stopped by Bill's Barbecue, a longtime Richmond business that has closed. This morning Romney's campaign released a web video in which it tied the closure of the business to the economy under the president.
"They used to have quite a few restaurants as many as 200 employees," Romney said in Caroline.

"The owner of Bill's told me she would close her doors" because of taxes, regulations and "Obamacare" he said.

Funny thing is, back September, that's not at all what the owners of Bill's Barbecue said. Read More

Romney campaign lied in response to Ryan insider trading story

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Wednesday August 15, 2012 · 9:10 AM PDT

2012/08/15 · 09:10

I am J.C. Wilmore, and I am the Richmonder.

When I posted early Saturday afternoon about the possibility that Paul Ryan may have traded on insider information on September 18, 2008, the day key members of Congress were warned about the impending bank crisis, I had no idea what I'd touched off. That first day, traffic to my site was up significantly, I got perhaps a week's worth of traffic in a day. On Sunday, traffic was up even more and then on Monday the story exploded and I received a year's traffic in 24 hours. I was blown away.

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Thursday July 19, 2012 · 4:38 AM PDT

2012/07/19 · 04:38

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

If you want to understand why Congress is so unpopular right now, you need look no father than Eric Cantor. Eric Cantor is the architect of the Republican plan to obstruct everything, to say "NO!" to everything. Cantor damaged the American economy by sabotaging last year's debt talks. Eric Cantor presents a real danger to this nation's future.

Luckily, Cantor is finally facing a real challenger. Wayne Powell is running a tough, aggressive, focused campaign to unseat Eric Cantor. Watch this video of Powell on The Ed Show and consider supporting Wayne Powell with a donation or by volunteering.

Redistricting leads to shakeups in Central Virginia Congressional Races

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Monday March 05, 2012 · 1:57 PM PST

2012/03/05 · 13:57

The recent dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the GOP-led redistricting of Virginia's congressional seats has Democrats in Central Virginia scrambling to adjust their campaigns to the new boundaries.

In the 7th District, candidates who had been courting Democratic Committees in Page, Rappahannock, and Madison Counties are shifting their attention eastwards to parts of Spotsylvania and New Kent Counties as the first three counties named were dropped from the 7th CD and all or a portion of the other two were added. In terms of party affiliation and performance there seems to be little difference between the old and new 7th, but there are a few voters in the new 7th that don't know Eric Cantor except through his recent high profile obstructionism, and that could work to the benefit of the Democratic challenger.

The situation in the neighboring 5th Congressional District may soon become complicated because of some opportunistic forum shopping by Northern Virginia Democrat John Douglass. A retired brigadier general turned lobbyist, Douglass had been conducting a vigorous campaign in the 10th Congressional District to challenge Republican incumbent Frank Wolf. Then one of Douglass' homes was redistricted into the 5th Congressional District and Douglass now seems to be mulling a switch to the 5th. Douglass might be afraid of taking on a veteran incumbent like Frank Wolf, seeing the 5th's current incumbent, freshman Robert Hurt, as an easier target.

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Sunday March 04, 2012 · 6:06 AM PST

2012/03/04 · 06:06

Hi everyone, my name is J.C. Wilmore. I'm a Democratic activist and a member of the Richmond City Democratic Committee ("RCDC"). I live in the heart of Richmond, Virginia, at the foot of Virginia's Capitol Hill and I serve as the 6th ward chair for the RCDC. Richmond's Capitol Square is near the center of my ward.

On March 3, 2012, I attended a rally at Capitol Square against the various anti-choice bills being promoted by Republicans in Virginia's General Assembly and I took my camera, a Nikon D5000, with me. The D5000 can shoot both stills and video, and on this occasion I was shooting mostly video.

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I watched the video, and the Virginia Capitol Police's actions were . . .

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I watched the video, and the Virginia Capitol Police's actions were . . .

completely justified.

3 votes

an unjustified overreaction.

47 votes

Video: Peaceful protesters arrested on steps of Virginia's Capitol

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Saturday March 03, 2012 · 2:06 PM PST

2012/03/03 · 14:06

The Virginia Capitol Police and Virginia State Police deployed massive forces against peaceful demonstrators protesting against the Republican War on Women today. Basically the entire Capitol Police force was there backed up by dozens of State Police, including a platoon of riot police in full riot gear and a half squad of SWAT openly carrying automatic weapons and teargas guns.

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Thursday March 01, 2012 · 12:18 PM PST

2012/03/01 · 12:18

There have only been a handful of times since I started blogging six years ago that I've covered a story that made me really, deeply, viscerally angry. Monday, February 27, 2012 was one of those times. That night I attended the "TAKE BACK THE RIGHT: Candlelight Vigil & Speak Out for Women" at Virginia's Capitol Square near the Virginia Governor's Mansion. It was a small, well behaved and completely peaceful demonstration, as the following photos prove. In addition, I have video which I will be publishing later to show just how completely peaceful this demonstration was.

The crowd was passionate, but extremely well behaved. The mood of the protesters was peaceful, but determined to make their point and convey their opposition to Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's radical anti-woman social agenda. The ordinary, uniformed Capitol Police were well represented, at a minimum there was at least one armed, uniformed Capitol Police person at or near the site of the protest for every two protesters. This in itself was a wildly disproportionate response to the scale and character of the protest, which was quiet, even muted.

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Deploying a SWAT team to this protest was . . .

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Deploying a SWAT team to this protest was . . .

an overreaction.

10 votes

an attempt to intimidate peaceful protesters.

35 votes

just standard operating procedure; nothing to see here, move along.

8 votes

"HB9: A Threat to Virginia's Voters"

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Wednesday January 18, 2012 · 9:14 AM PST

2012/01/18 · 09:14

I visited the Virginia General Assembly yesterday and attended the meeting of the Elections Subcommittee of the Privileges and Elections Committee of the House of Delegates. The room where the subcommittee met was far too small and the crowd of people who attended the stretched out into the hallway. The crowd included the Mayor of Richmond, Virginia Dwight Jones and Richmond Councilwoman Ellen Robertson was among the commenters.

The Elections subcommittee was considering several pieces of legislation, but I only had battery power enough to capture two of them. HB21 was not controversial and was quickly disposed of. Next, the subcommittee considered HB9.

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Friday December 30, 2011 · 3:24 PM PST

2011/12/30 · 15:24

The Republican Party isn't so much an association of like minded people devoted to promoting a certain political ideological point of view so much as a complex and surprisingly elaborate spider web of lies. Take Matt Romney's repetition of the lie that Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States and hasn't proven his birthright as an American. When you stop and consider the privilege that Matt Romney was born into--born not with a silver or gold spoon, but a platinum spoon encrusted with diamonds in his mouth--and to think that Matt Romney presumes to spread lies about a guy who overcame real obstacles to become President of the United States, it's really pretty amazing. Matt Romney is beneath contempt.

Or take the lie that most Republicans go about spreading on a daily basis, that Barack Obama has created massive deficits. The New York Times disposed of that Republican lie back during the summer.

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Thursday October 20, 2011 · 5:31 PM PDT

2011/10/20 · 17:31

E. Wayne Powell, a candidate for the Democratic nomination to take on Eric Cantor in Virginia's 7th Congressional District, has had a really amazing week. It all started last Thursday when Powell received the endorsement of the Progressive Democrats of America's chapter in Virginia's 7th CD. Powell's education and experience—especially his service in the military—make him exceptionally well equipped to face Cantor. Cantor may be more vulnerable in 2012 than he has ever been before. The debt ceiling talks moved Cantor into the national spotlight and highlighted Cantor's irresponsible partisanship and reckless disregard of what is best for the nation. The 2012 elections may be the best opportunity we have to defeat Cantor, or at the very least present him with a serious challenge that will weaken his ability to help Republican candidates nationwide.

PDA was founded during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Massachusetts. PDA's mission is to strengthen the voice of progressive ideas within the Democratic Party by using "inside/outside" and "grassroots fusion" models of working both in the Democratic Party as well as working with other progressive organizations both inside and outside the Party. You can view Powell's responses to PDA's candidate questionnaire by clicking here.

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Monday October 10, 2011 · 5:26 PM PDT

2011/10/10 · 17:26

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor claims to be afraid of the crowds at Occupy Wall Street, and maybe he has a point. After all, several witnesses at the event spotted a convicted criminal moving freely through the crowd. That's the guy, the one in the picture above--ugh! What an ugly mugshot, sort of a cross between a rat and a ferret. Everyone needs to keeps their eyes open, because with criminals like this guy floating around there's no telling what might happen at OWS. How was it that a convicted criminal was able to walk around the OWS event without police interfering with him? Apparently he got permission from his probation officer.

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Tuesday September 27, 2011 · 4:16 AM PDT

2011/09/27 · 04:16

Historian and novelist Shelby Foote liked to relate a story about Confederate General Braxton Bragg to illustrate how stubborn and perverse that general could be. The story went that in the pre-war army when Bragg was a lieutenant he was serving as a company commander at a remote army post. Because of a shortage of officers at the post, Bragg was also serving as quartermaster, or supply officer. In his role as company commander, Bragg requested in writing certain supplies for his company, but as supply officer, Bragg repeatedly turned down his own requests. Unable to reach an agreement with himself, Bragg finally referred the question to the post commander.

Confronted by Bragg's correspondence with himself, the post commander reportedly exclaimed, "My God, Mr. Bragg! You have quarreled with every other officer in the Army, and now you are quarreling with yourself!"

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