tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post4576940671763407453..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Goodbye To Goodlatte And The GOP Going From Lincoln To TrumpUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-88747943306653810622018-12-29T15:02:18.950-05:002018-12-29T15:02:18.950-05:00 2slug,
The district is solidly Republican, and t... 2slug,<br /><br />The district is solidly Republican, and the Valley is so also. But indeed it always has been going back to the Civil War when the party was progressive. Unfotunately those more progressive Mountain Valley Republicans have been a dying breed for some time with only a few left in office. Probably the most important is State Senator Emmett Hanger from the Shenandoah Valley, probably the mostl libert Republican in that body and the man who pushed the adoption of Virginia expanding Medicaid coverage, which passed this year after the Assembly got a lot more Dems in it.<br /><br />The small cities in the Valley tend to be Dem, especially Harrisonburg where I live, but they are outnumbered by the very GOP rural population.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-16493993500303991822018-12-29T12:45:31.849-05:002018-12-29T12:45:31.849-05:00Barkley, I don't know much about VA-06 politic...Barkley, I don't know much about VA-06 politics, but Goodlatte's clone Ben Cline won by a comfortable margin, so I suspect this result tells us at least as much about the moral decline of citizenry in the Shenandoah Valley as it does the moral decline of its politicians. At some point voters have to accept the responsibility and the blame for the clowns they elect.2slugbaitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14763897441056512506noreply@blogger.com