I  encounter this piece of dreck at  a concert aT MASON PARK

( The hawaian music concert). She was handing out her campaign literature.  Meanwhile, Penny Gross was there as always, greeting her friends.  ... Everybody there!

Vennie  ... like all other republicans, does not mention republican anywhere on her literature.

The alexandria democratic commitee has a standing 25$ offer to anybody that can produce literature from a republican that mentions republican.

Oh well , if I was a member of a party that is rapidly becoming synchronous with "Nazi", i  would keep it quiet too.

Just my 2 cents

paul

can you find the word "Republican"?

can you find even the slighest amount of civility. She's gonna lose who cares. KKK last week, Nazi references this week give it rest there is honor in victory.

I looked at Penny's website and nowhere does it mention that she is a Democrat. Did I miss it?

And she says that Vellie has been wanting to run for elected office for a while.....and that's it's mostly, well, about Vellie....

he says
an you find even the slighest amount of civility. She's gonna lose who cares. KKK last week, Nazi references this week give it rest there is honor in victo

I think long and hard before expressing my views re republicans. Given that 25 years ago they stole my social security, they castrated the enviromental protection agency, they hijack the english languase, they try to prey on the racism and fear of normal americans re immigrants,  and 4000 dead 20 year olds is "acceptable", and my 27 year old niece died for lack of basic health insurance.

So I think Im being light on out republican enimies.  You are  ok to have your views, i ask you respect mine.

oh by the way, 25 bucks for the first piece of literature from a  first time republican candidate, please.

My point was nail her for her views b/c it concerns me when we say "they" as if all Republicans and Demcrats feel the same way within their Party. I find alot of Va Democrats absolutely at odds with folks like MoveON and as many Rep at odds with the extreme right of their Party. Elections should be about individuals, views and visions who should be earning our votes and not simply having them bought by affliating themselves with particular laundry, whether red or blue. There are Rep who care deeply about minorities as there are Dems who are certainly Pro-life, we just need to dig a little deeper with facts before we start painting broad strokes thats all.

the first piece that ids the candidate as a republican

I got one yesterday that merely has the "authorized by" info but was told his other lit has him  with Tom Bliley identifying himself as a Republican.Sad was not the GOP crowd for "truth in labeling"

FYI Loupassi's front page of his website makes no reference to running as a Republican.

I must have received it.  On the back it has a photo of him and cantor and also of Tom Bliley with messages from both.  It also says Paid for by the Republican Party of Virginia including its address. I can't drive to NoVa to get my 25 cents though.

I have never heard of Ayn Rand so I looked her up.  Her philosophy is

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute"

That ought to play well with the conservative base.

http://en.wikipedia....

She was a pretty cold-hearted individual which matches Republicans and conservatives pretty well.  It's all about me.....

I was thinking of the social conservatives when I made the statement below and thinking sarcastically. My brain could have thrown out a better statement.  If a republican candidate espoused a philosophy like Rands, the social conservatives would stroke.  I can hear them now, those damn liberals. The big business wing would have no problem.

That ought to play well with the conservative base.

wrote "The Fountainhead," and it was a best seller in its day I remember it was considered partially based on Frank Lloyd Wright's career as a revolutionary architect, and was basically a libertarian tract, not conservative as we know it today. I distinctly recall one passage where the author denigrated the teeming masses living in tenements, where "the child's father was also her grandfather." At the time I read it I was a young Republican born and bred, and thought it was a great book; her fans made almost a cult movement.

And I loved it. I think that adapting her ideas to modern conservatism is intelectually perverse. I figured the Fountainhead to be a book about smart community planning and smart, environmentally friendly and pragmatic architecture (take the philosophical symbolisms where you will.)

..fiercely anti-government (saw taxation as essentially theft) and pro-"free market". 

I read and enjoyed her books quite a bit when I was in my early 20s.  Then I grew up...

Vellie is also BEST friends with Susan Ralston.  Together they were key players in the Filipino-American Republicans of Virginia group.  Who is Susan Ralston?  She was the former aide to Jack Abramoff before becoming the top aide to Karl Rove...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

living almost everywhere in America, mostly under the radar since they have never created or promoted their own cultural groups, they just go about their lives as usual. Back home, the women are pretty, little, and business dynamos. Do not underestimate Vellie.