A friend of mine is cooing over a certain upper Peninsula candidate... "Decent, honest, hard working and knows his stuff" - my friend can even envision his candidate being Governor one day. I also envision great things for Virginia and Virginia Beach with Joe elected to the House of Delegates. I have thus far attended two candidate forums to hear Joe debate his opponent. You cannot help but be bowled over with the depth of his knowledge, understanding and compassion for the concerns facing our community. I hope a little of that will come through on our live blog today, so please join us!
BTW... Joe is running against Chris Stolle, little brother of mega-wealthy Sen. Ken Stolle. Despite having to kick in big time to Tricia Stall and other Repug senate campaigns in order to save his royal seat as majority whip, Ken still has the capacities to give big time to his little bro and to strong arm is friends into it as well. Despite this, Joe has campaigned very hard, knocking on dollars and meeting a ton of voters. Chris meanwhile took the summer off and doesn't strike the voters has wanting the job in the first place. Chris is nice guy, but...