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"[The
Meredith] Richards campaign unveiled two television ads that the Democrat
is running this week on stations in Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Roanoke.
Her campaign is spending more than $75,000 to place the ads. One running
in Roanoke and Lynchburg is titled "Jobs Lost" and the other in
Charlottesville is called "There is a Choice."
In the latter, an announcer says "Virgil Goode's radical
proposal to make our Social Security dependent
on the stock market just doesn't make sense."
Then the Democrat is shown saying, "I'm Meredith Richards and this
year there's a choice for Congress.
I'd work with Democrats, Republicans and independents … to build
prosperity, create jobs and protect our quality of life. We need effective,
common-sense leadership in Congress. On Nov. 5, I need your vote."
| Voters Guide to Social Security
In the October 29, 2002, League of Women Voters 'Voters Guide', both
Meredith Richards and Virgil Goode list protecting social security as one
of their top two priorities (Voters Guide insert, sponsored by Giant
Food Inc. and the Charlottesville/Albemarle League of Women Voters Education
Fund):
Meredith Richards: "To protect Social Security [from]
risky privatization schemes. Virgil Goode has co-sponsored legislation to
privatize part of Social Security. I
believe that we should not send this sacred program that has lifted
thousands of seniors out of poverty into the hands of the people that gave
us the Enron Corporation."
Virgil Goode: "We must preserve and protect Social Security.
I know first-hand how important Social Security was for my mother, who lived
to be 87. I oppose raising the retirement age, and I also oppose cutting
benefits. I favor legislation guaranteeing benefits for those on Social
Security." |
The other 30-second spot running in Lynchburg and Roanoke offers
no spoken words but shows stark job-loss figures from various Southside
manufacturing firms that have cut thousands of jobs.
After the last of those graphics shows "Vanity Fair - 2,407,"
the screen slowly flashes the following silent messages:
"Jobs Lost,"
"29 years on the public payroll,"
"6 years in Congress,"
"and the only job he fights to save is his own!"
Then the screen shows a photo of the Democrat and the words "Meredith
Richards for Congress."
| Where Do They Stand?
WSET-TV began Week 2 (October 28, 2002) of "Where Do They
Stand?" with a question about the economy. It comes from Pamela Johnson
who lives in Bedford.
"I'm Pamela Johnson I'm from Bedford City. What they're going to
do to get economy and clean businesses in here to boost and establish a
tax base."
Rep. Virgil Goode. (R) 5th District - "We need to do three
things. First, we must have a trained workforce that can handle the latest
technological advances in the workplace. Second, we need to develop fiber,
utility, and highway infrastructure all over the Commonwealth. Thirdly,
we need more persons in Congress like me who are willing to vote no on NAFTA-like
trade agreements that shift manufacturing jobs to third- world countries."
Meredith Richards, (D) 5th District Congressional Candidate -
"Pamela, I've gone all over the 5th District telling people that I
will work as hard as the day is long to bring new jobs, new businesses,
and a new economy, a hi-tech economy to the 5th district. Governor Warner
has already done more for the 5th district of Virginia in his nine months
in office than our Congressman has done in six years. He wants a new partner
in Washington, he has endorsed my campaign, and I want to work with Governor
Warner to make that happen." |
Goode has been running localized radio and television ads throughout
the district for more than two weeks. Some of the Republican's latest ads
tout millions
of dollars of federal grants that he talks of helping to secure for
universities and governments in the 5th District." (Bob Gibson,
The Daily Progress, October 29, 2002)
| Goode Receives Endorsement from Frank Wolf
Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf (R) has listed these appropriations that
Goode has secured:
*$4.3 million for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport
*$3.2 millon for infrastructure at the Danville airport
* $375,000 for JAUNT - a transportation service
* $250,000 for Operation Blue Ridge - a task force against child pornography
on the Internet out of Bedford
* $200,000 for the Nelson Center
* $200,000 for water and sewer projects in Fluvanna County
Source: Ron Hasson, The Observer, October 30, 2002 |
For related articles about political advertising and the Virginia 5th
District Congressional race, see Counting
on Virgil Goode and Meredith
Richards On the Issues and Virgil
Goode Asks Fluvanna Voters 'Which Vision For Virginia Do You Want?'
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