Michael McPadden - VA 5th Congressional District

[Todd]

Todd; youd better find out and be able to answer that question and others like it...not tell me to go meet the guy; because you will be asked that question when you are campaigning.

Top 5 Questions I was asked while Campaigning for candidates in the General Assembly Election

#1: Has this person ever been elected
#2: What does he stand for
#3: Whats his opinion on ______
#4: What can he do for me
#5: Why should I vote for him

Malkus: Overall turnout was lower compared to 2008 and higher for the Republicans as compared to 2005.

The sticking point is this in 2006 Goode held the seat by a margin of 125,370 to 84,682. In Contrast Tom Perriello won the seat in 2008 with 158,812 votes. Thats 74,130 more votes that the Democrats picked up. Goode scored 158,083 votes a total gain of 32,713. In other words Democrats gained 2 votes to the Republican 1. Also note in 2006 there was an Independent Green on the Ballot; that was not the case in 2008.

The question is how do you expect to combat those numbers. If even a quarter of those new Democrats turn out for the midterms then whoever the Republican is is in trouble.

I don't disagree. Perhaps I thought you were rightly skeptical of McPadden...but I understand what your saying now.

And I'm not on board anyone yet. There are about 5 candidates vieing for the 5th.

Of course you need answers about how your going to handle these type questions. Of course you need to be brainstorming beforehand.

#1 is vastly overated unless your talking about a viable voting record to measure him against.

I think it needs to be framed in a way that shows guys who haven't held political office aren't looking for political careers, but being statesmen like the founders intended.
How hard is it to spend other peoples money. How much "expertise" does it take to be a ward of the state?
By being elected before, it only means you need to know how to play a political game.

How did you answer that question?


Feda Kidd, Laurence Verga, Michael McFadden, Ron Ferrin, Jim McKelvey and Ken Boyd are all in the race to go up against Perreillo.

Edit: Ken Boyd has held lot's of offices, but that doesn't mean I would support his brand of conservatism.

 

[Nathan Hale]

#1 is vastly overated unless your talking about a viable voting record to measure him against.

I think it needs to be framed in a way that shows guys who haven't held political office aren't looking for political careers, but being statesmen like the founders intended.
How hard is it to spend other peoples money. How much "expertise" does it take to be a ward of the state?
By being elected before, it only means you need to know how to play a political game.

#1 may be vastly overrated *to you*, but to the voting population, it's important that a person hold a lesser office prior to running for a major national office. Sure, you can get the occasional candidate without prior experience, but usually that candidate has either a lot of money or a degree of celebrity that gives him an opening through which to enter the race as a top tier candidate. Rand Paul made it perfectly clear in his early stump speeches that the only reason he was able to become a major player in the race was his father's fame and network.

Yes, it's a strong message to say "lets kick out the career politicians", but that doesn't mean the candidate saying it need never have been elected. There is a happy medium between the two. Many great, private sector individuals have long "careers" in local politics and are still able to approach a Congressional race as a political outsider, because local politics and national politics are two different animals, both morally and logistically.

 

[GBurr]

McPadden is not the best candidate in this district.

Laurence Verga is the most liberty minded candidate.

http://www.vergaforcongress.com/

Edit: I retract this statement. At the time I made it I was misinformed about Mr. Mcpadden and Mr. Verga appeared to be the most anti-establishment candidate. I now support Mr. Mcpadden.

 

[TCE]

McPadden is not the best candidate in this district.

Laurence Verga is the most liberty minded candidate.

http://www.vergaforcongress.com/

Verga is better than the guy the Establishment is supporting, but that's all he is. His Neo-Con foreign policy gives him away.

 

[GBurr]

Hurt is a terrible candidate. McPadden just had a representative at Liberty University telling students that we should nuke the middle east and bulldoze the temple mount and return it to Israel. I highly doubt that McPadden would be happy with his representative saying we should nuke entire population centers.

There really isn't a great candidate here. Mcpadden seems to have a better issues section on his website.

Can anyone give some more info on Mcpadden.

 

[RP4EVER]

Todd; wether #1 is over rated to you or not doesnt matter; its what matters to the voters. I answered it with the word "No" to some that was an invitation to elect a new person; said to most I got doors slammed in my face regardless of how much they agreed with the stances.

Also Todd; I am skeptical of all these new "Liberty" candidates; none of them that I can find are involved with the Ron Paul movement via C4L; not saying that they arent true blue Liberty candidates; but people know how to take momentum and run with it.

Addendum: Robert Hurt is the favorite candidated and the most well know of the bunch and thats going to be hard to fight espically since Hurt represents all of Southside in the 19th Senate District; everybody Ive talked to thus far is planning to support him; we have work to do regardless of how the deck is stacked; but 1 hole and we're sunk.

 

[Todd]

Todd; wether #1 is over rated to you or not doesnt matter; its what matters to the voters. I answered it with the word "No" to some that was an invitation to elect a new person; said to most I got doors slammed in my face regardless of how much they agreed with the stances.

Also Todd; I am skeptical of all these new "Liberty" candidates; none of them that I can find are involved with the Ron Paul movement via C4L; not saying that they arent true blue Liberty candidates; but people know how to take momentum and run with it.

Addendum: Robert Hurt is the favorite candidated and the most well know of the bunch and thats going to be hard to fight espically since Hurt represents all of Southside in the 19th Senate District; everybody Ive talked to thus far is planning to support him; we have work to do regardless of how the deck is stacked; but 1 hole and we're sunk.

Me too. If you look at every one of the candidate's sites...they all have something speaking to them being strict "constitutionalists.

That's the flavor of the month to tame the disgruntled.

 

[Solovskoy]

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[Todd]

If anyone's interested.
Mike McPadden will speak at two events in Bedford as follows:

Jan. 13th 5:00 PM Mini-Tea Party (Bedford)
Cup a Joe Coffee Shop

Jan. 13th 6:30 PM Mini-Town Hall (Bedford)
Stillwaters Coffee House

 

[Solovskoy]

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[Todd]

McPadden is not the best candidate in this district.

Laurence Verga is the most liberty minded candidate.

Like I said....I'm on the fence until I have better information, but this doesn't sound like it to me.....at first glance;


From Verga's site:

We need to stop playing politics in Afghanistan. The United States is fighting a war for our very survival. It’s time for the President and the Speaker to heed the words of General McChrystal and increase our troop presence

So he's for a "surge".

To me this sounds much more in tune with Paul's ideology.

From McPadden's :

We have troops in 147 countries, I think we might be a little over extended; it is time for some of them to come home. I believe that if we as a nation decide we must send our troops into harm's way, we are morally obligated to provide our men and women in uniform with everything that they need to complete their mission and achieve victory. I am in complete support of advancing our missile defense technology, at the fastest rate possible. Defense is our government's number two priority, after protecting the rights of the individual. I believe that a goal of 4% of Gross Domestic Product is at best a minimum target for defense spending.


I believe any major commitment of troops anywhere in the world for the purpose of war MUST be accompanied by a declaration of war. No declaration of war: no troops. The Constitution demands that Congress take an active role in this country's entry into war, and no Congress should be allowed to abdicated that responsibility ever.

 

[Todd]

Look at this list?

http://www.retakecongress.com/Candidates/House.aspx


Pretty good company eh?


Adam Kokesh

Santa Fe, NM

(R) 2rd District



RJ Harris

Norman, OK

(R) 4th District


Rand Paul

Bowling Green, KT

(R) Senate



Michael McPadden

(R) Virginia's

5th District



One of my friends from my former Paul meetup sent me this link. I didn't see anyone else from the 5th on it.

 

[Solovskoy]

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[Todd]

bump

 

[Solovskoy]

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[GBurr]

I'm behind Mcpadden now. I personally talked to Solovskoy at Liberty University back in December when he attended a healthcare debate between the College Democrats and the College Republicans. During the Q and A I identified as a member of College Libertarians and asked the College Republican representative how to address the hypocrisy of the Republican party concerning their own 10 step plan for healthcare and their prior expansion of medicare and medicaid in 2003. The representative responded by telling me that they were there to talk about the present healthcare bill not the past. He was caught totally off-guard. After the Q and A Mr. Solovskoy accused me of Bush bashing and told me that I wasn't helping "our" cause. We got into a discussion and he told me that most Libertarians are a bunch of god haters. He also told me that our policy in the middle east should be to just nuke the whole region and then bulldoze the temple mount and return it to Israel. He got some applause from students that were conversing around us.

I have video of Mr. Solovskoy sitting in the audience and passing out campaign literature at the event.

To clarify Mcpadden is a very good candidate that this movement should support. He is the best candidate in the district by far and he has a very good chance of winning. However, Mr. Solovskoy is Neo-con who almost cost Mr. Mcpadden my support by stating his own stupid neo-con and Zionist beliefs after he had already identified himself with the Mcpadden campaign. Mr. Solovskoy you should spend some time reading the posts on this site. It will educate you. You should also refrain from spouting Neo-con stupidity while working on the campaign of a liberty candidate. It would also be a good idea to not insult libertarianism when your candidate has a platform that is very similar to most libertarian platforms.

Mr. Solovskoy your personal Neo-con zionist beliefs are something you need to work out. Do not allow them to come out when you are identifying yourself as the Chief of Staff for a candidate that clearly does not espouse your views.

 

[Solovskoy]

Thanks for the advice

I am grateful that GBurr was able to point out my non-liberatian views.

I have since resigned from McPadden for Congress partly because of his libertarian views. You see Gburr, as a Zionist Neo-Con Conservative Pastor I can not endorse a Liberty Candidate that has political or personal views that are contrary to the Holy Scriputres.

I will not be careful of what I say about Libertarians because some Libertarians seek to destroy our country by removing God from our society. I am not saying that Mike is doing that, I am suggesting that those type of Libertarians are dangerous to freedom because it is God who gives rights. Those type of Libertarians are simply mad at God and any authority. We must have Government that is centered on Christ Jesus, or we will parish.

GBurr, Do you really think this socialist takeover of our government is because we have too much Christianity in Governemnt?

Lastly, Since leaving McPadden for Congress I have begun a campaign to stop him from receiving the nomination because he acts more like a Democrat than a Republican and has demonstrated that he will be the Consummate Politician when he gets to Washington D.C.

Here are a few examples:
• McPadden refuses to answer questions about homosexuality and the decriminalization of marijuana, drugs, and prostitution.
• McPadden has used intimidation tactics to try and stop his perceived enemies of his campaign.
• McPadden has threatened to harm the liberty of a former staffer if elected to Congress.
• McPadden has maligned and slandered members of the Republican Party in the Fifth District.

Thanks again GBurr... I do remember you too from the health care debate at LU. You are a nut.

Sincerely a proud,
Neo-Con Zionist God Loving Capitalist Preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Rev. Joshua Daniel Solovskoy, MDiv.

 

[RP4EVER]

The Republicans in this district need to be slammed on more than once.

 

[RP4EVER]

Solovosky; heres hoping you stay at church on election day; lest you vote for Robert "I only voted for the tax increase to help you" Hurt

 

[Solovskoy]

It is SOLOVSKOY, Rev. Solovskoy.

RPV4Ever
I will be at the polls all day on election day encouraging people to vote for anyone other than McPadden. Thank you for the suggestion.
Rev. Joshua Daniel Solovskoy