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Yet one more reason why the Democrats will lose Virginia.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 20th, 2012 at 09:30 AM  | 

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Shad planking.

To summarize the video: every year this event goes on in Virginia where people get together at the Wakefield Ruritan Club and eat shad that’s been smoked on wooden planks (thus, ‘shad planking’). This is one of those big-time political social events for Virginia, and usually it’s pretty bipartisan because, you know, shad on wooden planks. Anyway: according to the video, the organizers (as per their usual custom) twice extended an invite to Tim Kaine’s campaign for him to speak; they were twice ignored; they extended a similar (and perfectly standard) invitation to George Allen; and when Allen ended up being keynote speaker by default, the same Kaine people that shrugged off the invites in the first place got huffy and started an informal boycott.

Well. I guess that means more shad for the Republicans, then. More votes, too.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Note that I did not call this the primary reason why the Democrats will lose Virginia. But state politicians ignore – or worse, dismiss – local events like this at their peril. The Kaine campaign is claiming that they chose not to attend because it’s a small event and not a necessary stop on the campaign trail, yadda yadda: that attitude is interesting, considering that it had now-Governor McDonnell speaking in 2009, now-Senator Mark Warner speaking in 2008… and Tim Kaine in 2005, when he was running (successfully) for Governor.

Oh, well, I suppose that Kaine thinks that those grapes were probably sour anyway.

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  • RichmondG30

    was in way over his head as Mayor of Richmond. Now he’s too important to mingle with the little people. Love it!

    I can’t wait to listen to his concession speech in November. That excitement is tempered by the realization that we will be sending Big Government “Conservative” George Allen back to assist Mitch McConnell.

  • Scope

    For more than the first year of his 4 year term, he was considered a do nothing, know nothing Governor. For the most part of his last year as Gov. he was non-existent as he was already named the DNC head, and was touring the country on behalf of Obama and the libs.

    And speaking of dog stories, Kaine signed a law which required all veterinarians in the state to send the names of every pet owner that showed up at their clinics to the state, where a state agency then sent that information to every town and district, which then sent notices to every pet owner that they had to come and purchase licenses for their pets, which were named on the notices. The additional paperwork required by the vets caused them to increase their prices for pet care.

  • barleycorn

    You have to wonder just who made this decision and why.

    In an election where Kaine will need to avoid being painted as an elitist (which is pretty much every statewide election in Virginia for the past 150 years) , he decides to stick his finger in the eye of rural Virginia.

    This is roughly analogous to George Allen deciding to sponsor a tobacco spitting contest in Fairfax County with special musical guest Ted Nugent.

  • barleycorn

    Dog tags were originally simply a mechanism to enforce rabies vaccination laws. In order to get the tags which were either free or a very nominal charge of $1 or $2 , you had to show proof of vaccination.

    Now local governments, usually at the behest of various bleeding heart groups like the American Humane Society (oh boy will I get cards and letters) , have come to view dog tags as just another “revenue source” (or TAX for those of you reading in Piscataway.)

    So along comes Kaine and Company turning the law on its head by requiring that when vets vaccinate a dog (which was the original goal pray remember) that he in turn must inform the locality so they can check their license records.

    Meanwhile given that cats need neither a vaccination or license one is forced to conclude that their owners have better lobbyists.