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Sen. Colgan has Outsourced His Campaign
By RHarrison | 2 October 2007 | Uncategorized | 40 Comments
Has anyone else noticed that all of Senator Colgan’s mailings are paid for by the Democratic Party of Virginia?
Senator Colgan recently sold Colagn Air for something like $22 million. Moreover, as a senior Senator he can raise all the money he wants easily. But he hasn’t done that. Instead, he is pulling money away from other Democratic candidates in the state because he doesn’t feel like campaigning for himself.
If I were a Democrat, that would really irritate me.
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Bob FitzSimmonds has a real shot to win. Beating an incument is always tough but Colgan has put no effort in this and Bob has been targeted by the GOP. Keep your eyes on this one. With JMDD way behind and Richard Stuart down double digits, Bob could be the difference between 19 and 20 GOP Senators.
Being 81 years old, he may not have the energy to do this himself, which leads me to wonder if he has the energy to serve another term.
It’s too bad that we had to run FitzSimmonds. This might have been a relatively effortless. Of course, had FitzSimmonds not run, Colgan might not have run either. I wouldn’t be surprised if he just had a Harry Parrish moment and decided he was doggoned if he was going to let the seat go to someone of that caliber (in hindsight, perhaps a bad choice of metaphors, but you know what I mean). As Senator Warner realized, being 80 and running for office is probably not the most satisfying way to spend one’s golden years. We should have given Senator Colgan an honorable out.
correction: should read “a relatively effortless pick-up”
fox news is saying Sen. Warner is in the hospital
Why not - this ragged out political prostitute is going to go to the well again and again and again.
This POS has made a nice living for himself selling out Va - waht is new now?
Senator Colgan has served this area very well. The Democratic Party of Virginia, I am told, supplied money to all the campaigns in this area. It was a management decision at the highest level.
I’ve also gotten stuff in the mail from Sharon Pandak, it too was paid for by the Democratic Party. It was on thick glossy paper legal size. I wonder if Sharon is concerned for all the trees that had to be cut down for her mailer. It was funny, it has pictures of trees, and then Sharon pix stuck in the ad!!!
Anon 11:34am
I really think POS to describe Chuck is really out of line. I may not agree with his views on immigration, however he certainly not a POS!! Have a little respect for your elders.
Chuck Colgan is going to receive a boatload of money from the Democratic Party of Virginia. Colgan has been a great player for the Democrats, he sponsored the minimum wage bill, voted for in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, plays nice with developers and endorses candidates as crazy as Rishell as long as they have a D attached to them. Colgan does all of this while never sponsoring any pro-life legislation (although he says he REALLY cares about that issue). Heck, I hear some of the folks down at DPV really like Shenandoah too!
Colgan will have all the money and spinsters he wants but at the end of the day, he has failed to address illegal immigration, watched the transportation crisis develop and will not be returned to Richmond.
Anon 11:34–Your comments about Colgan are out of line. Colgan has failed on a significant number of issues, but he is an elected official and deserves our respect.
Comments like yours detract from the actual issues at hand and thus do a disservice to everyone.
I find it hard to believe that after all this time so many know-it-alls like Greg L. and Lafeyette still haven’t learned the most basic things about political campaigns. The state parties get a discount from mail vendors for volume mailings, so often the party does the discounted mailing for a candidate, who then reimburses them. It’s all legal and disclosed in the campaign finance reports. You’ve been blogging this tripe for a while now, are you learning-impaired in some way, or just plain dumb?
Anon 12:30am,
FYI- I merely made a statement. I don’t claim to know it all. I was making statement to let folks know Chuck was not the only one with mailers paid for the Democratic party. How did you come to the conclusion that I thought it was illegal? You statements about me are plain dumb. Get a grip!
Anon @12:30
This thread’s opening was not written by Greg L.!
“Colgan…voted for in-state tuition for illegal immigrants…”
Maybe you should check your facts, Anonymous…Colgan voted AGAINST in-state tuition for illegal aliens in 2007 (SB 1204-2007). Go ahead and keep taking the “Rishell Route” per the “Chapman Method.” It’s one of those things which give politics and pols such a good name. Of course, I shouldn’t be surprised considering Bob FitzSimmonds was such a huge Chapman supporter right from the beginning, when they arranged to “move” him into the district. With regard to his pro-life record, given the plethora of pro-life legislation that rolls through the GA every year, I doubt that it would be necessary for him to sponsor any more legislation himself. Why don’t you report on his VOTING record…or are you afraid that it will make a fool of you?
Just to make sure all the cards are on the table. All of the Bob Fitsimmons stuff that I have received in the mail has been paid for by the Republican Party of Virginia. If we are going to compare apples to apples, it should be pointed out that Bob is doing the same thing as Chuck. Just and FYI.
AWCheney, I agree let’s check the facts. I’m certain you’ve read that bill yourself and aren’t just relying on the Colgan mailer paid for by the illegal immigrant apologists at DPV.
Just in case you haven’t read the bill though, it does indeed grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. Read the whole thing. After the beginning that restricts in-state tuition, it lists an exception explaining how illegal immigrants can receive the benefit. This exception is why the House opposed this version of the bill (they amended it so it would actually stop illegals from receiving in-state tuition).
This difference is why conservatives in the Senate like Cuccinelli, Obenshain, etc. voted against it there and why the entire PWC House delegate supported a different version (a version that actually barred illegals from receiving in-state tuition).
AWCheney, actually Colgan doesn’t get to vote on abortion very often because the Ed and Health Committee is chaired by the pro-choice Russ Potts so few bills make it out. Colgan could be on Ed and Health (or Transportation for that matter) but he has chosen to be on other committees.
Colgan has consistently supported pro-choice Dick Saslaw to be his party’s floor leader in recent years, contributed to pro-choice Leslie Byrne against pro-life Bill Bolling, contributed to pro-choice Janette Rishell against pro-life Jackson Miller, and contributed to pro-choice Mark Herring against pro-life Mick Staton.
Colgan use to sponsor pro-life legislation, but hasn’t in the last term. I guess that makes him better on abortion than he is on illegal immigration (zero bills in 32 years). Colgan doesn’t sponsor pro-life legislation and frequently contributes to pro-choice candidates, doesn’t sound very pro-life to me.
At this point, I’m on the cusp of becoming a Dem. What has
happened to the Republican Party in this county? We have
elected officials (Rep) supporting Dems and I’ve always been
led to believe that we have to support our own. Caddigan is
working in partnership w/Pandank and Caddigan coordinated
the Glen Hill/Pandank partnership. Hill is also supporting
Colgan, and he has made no secret of his support of Beauchamp.
Word comes from the Hill group that he has extracted a firm
promise from the Colgan clan to help Ray become sheriff (after
his next term is up) in exchange for being hired as security
director (at a six figure salary).
Not only is Hill helping the enemy but is bad-mouthing the
Republican party.
Something should be done about this…fined, reprimanded,
expelled from the party?
Gone Fishing,
This is why we must all register as INDEPENDENTS! I’ve never voted a straight ticket, nor would I, and think most would say the same.
Gone Fishing–Do you have any hard evidence to actually back up these claims of disloyalty by Sheriff Hill or are you just gone fishing?
One very blatant bit of evidence is the Beauchamp web site,
take a look. You must talk to some of his disgruntled
deputies, or better yet, talk to Hill.
If you are talking about the picture of the Sheriff with the disgruntled clerk candidate, I believe it was taken at an event before she bolted the party.
Gone Fishing
Don’t ask any of the deputies that have come to the courthouse from the jail. The courthouse is promotion for them, and they love it. I think most know the jail is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Law Enforcement.
Lafayette,
Both the jail and sheriff’s dept are “bottom of the barrel” as
far as law enforcement goes, for neither do any law enforcing.
I believe they are all sworn law enforcers. It’s a joke.
Colgan Air also flew Mohammed Atta from Maine to Boston on 9/11.
Gone fishing
Good point!
The parties get cheaper postage rates. So even if a candidate is paying for his or her own mail, it makes sense to write the party a check to cover postage and production.
So in reality, the candidate could be paying for it by making an offsetting donation to the party. It makes sense, you save something like $.10 / piece in non-profit postage costs (campaigns do not qualify as non-profits, parties do) and nobody that actually looks to see who paid gives a damn.
Chippenham,
That practice of “renting out” a non-profit bulk rate permit is a violation of postal regulations. Jeanette Rishell got pounded on for this last year, and the DPVA’s bulk permit could have been revoked as a result.
Anonymous (10:41)
Further irrefutable evidence of the Caddigan/Pandank
partnership. Go anywhere in Caddigan’s district and you
will see signs stapled together with Pandank’s signs (in at
least 20 locations…..not side by side, but stapled and mingled
in a way that leaves little doubt that these 2 gals are partners)
Where the signs are not stapled, they are glued together!
As for the photo with Lucy, it may well have been taken before
she bolted from the Rep party, but why is it still on her web
site? Hill and Beauchamp are actively working against a
Republican candidate: Michele McQuigg!
hey morons, this about getting a more favorable postage rate, nothing more nothing less. The Rs do the same thing when they have viable candidates, look across the state where there are contested races, the Rs mail using their favorable postage rate.
“Bill Scott said on 3 Oct 2007 at 12:04 am:
Anon 11:34–Your comments about Colgan are out of line. Colgan has failed on a significant number of issues, but he is an elected official and deserves our respect.”
Been here long? Being elected to an office affords you no respect around here.
Bill, I’m in the process of researching ALL votes on illegal alien issues from 2006-07, per your recommendation. You’re right…I pulled that off of Chuck’s flyer, which I had just received in the mail when I posted that comment. I do not yet, however, know that it was not a legitimate vote against the illegal aliens (there’s a lot of material through which to wade because I’ve broadened my scope). Whatever legislative information I compile I will turn over to Maureen Wood, the Legislative Committee Chairman for Help Save Manassas.
I’ll say this, if I was wrong about the vote on the bill, I apologize in advance (always willing to admit I’m wrong…if I can satisfy myself that I am). If not, I take back my apology.
I’m intrigued by “Gone Fishing’s” 0956 comment: 1. What is the Glenn Hill/Pandak “partnership” that you speak of as if it is a registered business? Please explain and amplify. Which “Hill Group” announced that the Sheriff had extracted a firm commitment from Colgan to support Ray in return for a six-figure job as security director? Details please. And is there any reason that Hill should not have supported Beauchamp, a long-time Republican who simply gave up on the crippled and ineffectual local Republican machinery in PWC, at least up until she became an independent candidate. Even running as an independent, she is a formidable Republican in the County. What’s the timing on Hill’s support for Beauchamp? I certainly supported her (monetarily) before she became an Independent based on her up-to-that-point solid GOP credentials. I’d be pleased if she came back to the Party in the future. You report all this as though these are almanac-type facts. Back it up or recant.
I haven’t read much in these comments that I would consider
“Almanac-type facts”, NoVa Scout, have you? Recant? Nah,
don’t think so. Reveal my sources? Nah, don’t think so.
Aware of the old adage, “Believe nothing that you hear”, there’s
also “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire”, and then my fav:
“If it quacks like a duck, etc. etc.”.
You appear to be somewhat apathetic about our broken GOP
here in the county, but in case you haven’t noticed, candidates
such as Beauchamp, Caddigan and RINO Hill are manipulating
a coup to turn PWC to blue…brilliantly…right under our noses!
I, for one, am disgusted with the perfidy….no loyalty, no
honesty….just a bunch of self serving egotists, making us look
like the fools we are.
protecting your sources,GF? What a pro journalist you are. A Pulitzer is no doubt right around the corner.
I think you’re just making this stuff up and flinging it into the public e-space.
“hired as security director” for whom, pray tell?
Hill/Pandak partnership? right.
what utter malarkey.
NoVa Scout, yes, pro journalists ALWAYS protect our sources.
You can’t make up stuff like this. I have no intentions of
engaging with you in debate or argument on this topic, so
my final words to you are: “Wait and see!”
Looks like Gone Fishing has gone around the bend.
Sorry that should read Marshall, Lingamfelter and Miller.
Virginia
Key Vote
(How all members voted)
In-state tuition rates; prohibited for certain individuals. Prohibits the board of visitors or other governing body of a public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth from authorizing in-state tuition rates for individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States. The bill also provides that, notwithstanding the provisions regarding the governing bodies’ mandates, any person shall be eligible for in-state tuition who: (i) has resided in Virginia while attending high school; (ii) has graduated from a public or private high school in Virginia or has received a General Education Development (GED) certificate in Virginia; (iii) has resided in the Commonwealth for at least three years on the date of high school graduation; (iv) has registered in an institution of higher education; (v) has provided an affidavit stating that he has filed an application to become a permanent resident of the United States and is actively pursuing such permanent residency or will do so as soon as he is eligible; and (vi) has submitted evidence that he or, in the case of a dependent student, at least one parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis, filed, unless exempted by state law, Virginia income tax returns for at least three years prior to the date of enrollment.
Bill Number: Sub SB 1204
Issues: Education, Immigration
Date: 02/16/2007
Sponsor: Education
Bill Passed (House)
How members voted
(81 - 16)
State District Name Party Vote
VA 1 Rep. Terry Gene Kilgore Republican Y
VA 2 Rep. Clarence Phillips Democrat Y
VA 3 Rep. Daniel Bowling Democrat Y
VA 4 Rep. Joseph Johnson Jr. Democrat Y
VA 5 Rep. Charles Carrico Sr. Republican Y
VA 6 Rep. Anne Crockett-Stark Republican Y
VA 7 Rep. David Nutter Republican Y
VA 8 Rep. H. Morgan Griffith Republican Y
VA 9 Rep. Allen Wayne Dudley Republican Y
VA 10 Rep. Ward Armstrong Democrat Y
VA 11 Rep. Onzlee Ware Democrat Y
VA 12 Rep. James Shuler Democrat NV
VA 13 Rep. Robert Marshall Republican Y
VA 14 Rep. Daniel Marshall III Republican Y
VA 15 Rep. C. Todd Gilbert Republican Y
VA 16 Rep. Robert Hurt Republican Y
VA 17 Rep. William Fralin Jr. Republican Y
VA 18 Rep. Clifford Athey Jr. Republican Y
VA 19 Rep. Lacey Putney Independent Y
VA 20 Rep. Christopher Saxman Republican Y
VA 21 Rep. John Welch III Republican Y
VA 22 Rep. Kathy Byron Republican Y
VA 23 Rep. Shannon Valentine Democrat Y
VA 24 Rep. Benjamin Cline Republican Y
VA 25 Rep. Richard Landes Republican Y
VA 26 Rep. Matthew Lohr Republican Y
VA 27 Rep. Samuel Nixon Jr. Republican Y
VA 28 Rep. William Howell Republican Y
VA 29 Rep. Beverly Sherwood Republican Y
VA 30 Rep. Edward Scott Republican Y
VA 31 Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter Republican Y
VA 32 Rep. David Poisson Democrat Y
VA 33 Rep. Joe May Republican Y
VA 34 Rep. Vincent Callahan Jr. Republican Y
VA 35 Rep. Stephen Shannon Democrat Y
VA 36 Rep. Kenneth Plum Democrat N
VA 37 Rep. David Bulova Democrat Y
VA 38 Rep. Robert Hull Democrat N
VA 39 Rep. Vivian Watts Democrat N
VA 40 Rep. Timothy Hugo Republican Y
VA 41 Rep. David Marsden Democrat N
VA 42 Rep. David Albo Republican Y
VA 43 Rep. Mark Sickles Democrat Y
VA 44 Rep. Kristen Amundson Democrat N
VA 45 Rep. David Englin Democrat N
VA 46 Rep. Brian Moran Democrat Y
VA 47 Rep. Albert Eisenberg Democrat N
VA 48 Rep. Robert Brink Democrat N
VA 49 Rep. Adam Ebbin Democrat N
VA 50 Rep. Jackson Miller Republican Y
VA 51 Rep. Michéle McQuigg Republican Y
VA 52 Rep. Jeffrey Frederick Republican Y
VA 53 Rep. James Martin Scott Democrat N
VA 54 Rep. Robert Dickson Orrock Sr. Republican Y
VA 55 Rep. Frank Hargrove Sr. Republican Y
VA 56 Rep. William Janis Republican Y
VA 57 Rep. David Toscano Democrat N
VA 58 Rep. Robert Bell III Republican Y
VA 59 Rep. Watkins Moorman Abbitt Jr. Independent Y
VA 60 Rep. Clarke Hogan Republican Y
VA 61 Rep. Thomas Wright Jr. Republican Y
VA 62 Rep. Riley Ingram Republican Y
VA 63 Rep. Rosalyn Dance Democrat Y
VA 64 Rep. William Barlow Democrat Y
VA 65 Rep. Robert Ware Jr. Republican Y
VA 66 Rep. Marvin Cox Republican Y
VA 67 Rep. Charles Caputo Democrat N
VA 68 Rep. Katherine Waddell Independent Y
VA 69 Rep. Franklin Hall Democrat Y
VA 70 Rep. Dwight Jones Democrat N
VA 71 Rep. Jennifer McClellan Democrat N
VA 72 Rep. John Spence Reid Republican Y
VA 73 Rep. John O’Bannon III Republican Y
VA 74 Rep. Aston McEachin Democrat N
VA 75 Rep. Roslyn Tyler Democrat Y
VA 76 Rep. S. Jones Republican Y
VA 77 Rep. Lionell Spruill Sr. Democrat NV
VA 78 Rep. John Cosgrove Jr. Republican Y
VA 79 Rep. Johnny Joannou Democrat Y
VA 80 Rep. Kenneth Ronald Melvin Democrat Y
VA 81 Rep. Terrie Suit Republican Y
VA 82 Rep. Harry Purkey Republican Y
VA 83 Rep. Leo Wardrup Jr. Republican Y
VA 84 Rep. Salvatore Iaquinto Republican Y
VA 85 Rep. Robert Tata Republican Y
VA 86 Rep. Thomas Rust Republican Y
VA 87 Rep. Paula Miller Democrat Y
VA 88 Rep. Mark Cole Republican Y
VA 89 Rep. Kenneth Alexander Democrat Y
VA 90 Rep. Algie Howell Jr. Democrat Y
VA 91 Rep. Thomas Gear Republican NV
VA 92 Rep. Jeion Ward Democrat N
VA 93 Rep. Phillip Hamilton Republican Y
VA 94 Rep. G. Oder Republican Y
VA 95 Rep. Mamye BaCote Democrat Y
VA 96 Rep. Melanie Rapp Republican Y
VA 97 Rep. Christopher Peace Republican Y
VA 98 Rep. Harvey Morgan Republican Y
VA 99 Rep. Robert Wittman Republican Y
VA 100 Rep. Lynwood Lewis Jr. Democrat Y
Vote Key
Y
N
NV
PY
PN
Yea
Nay
Not Voting, Excused, Absent, or Present
Pair Yea
Pair Nay
[Ed note: comment edited to show correct summary for this bill. The final bill substantially differed from the one introduced and added the following language to the Virginia Code:
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 23-7.4:01 as follows:
§ 23-7.4:01. Alien in-state tuition.
An alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, and therefore ineligible to establish domicile pursuant to § 23-7.4, shall not be eligible on the basis of residency within Virginia for any postsecondary educational benefit, including in-state tuition, unless citizens or nationals of the United States are eligible for such benefits in no less an amount, duration, and scope, without regard to whether such citizens or nationals are Virginia residents.]
I think the above demonstrates that when the senate supported the initial version of this bill, it was something guaranteeing in-state tuition rates for illegal aliens. When it got to the House they passed a substitute that said the exact opposite. The Senate rejected the house substitute, it went to conference, and what was reported out was essentially the House version.
The January 23rd vote by Colgan was a vote in favor of in-state tuition for illegal aliens.