I’ve voted every year in every election since I was 21 (had to be 21 at the time.) \u00a0Never ever have I seen as many mailers as I have received from “Hapless Hal.” \u00a0He claims the usual superlatives in today’s glossy 4 sider and also includes a promise that he will serve as our “voice” in the Senate. \u00a0Really? \u00a0I doubt it. \u00a0He will be the “voice” of the Virginia GOP. \u00a0This guy will never buck his party and will fall in line now that the party has dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into his campaign. \u00a0 He has probably been fed the usual excuses for rejecting Medicaid expansion with the tax dollars we have already paid to the Federal government. \u00a0You can bank on a plan to block any kind of reproductive rights and Hal will be voting for school vouchers. \u00a0You can be sure that he will rob the public schools to support business interests: \u00a0Lowering taxes. \u00a0His donors are big business and his small business experience is inheriting his family business. \u00a0He has never worked and does not know what it is like to live a real life. \u00a0He is rich and knows nothing about the needy. \u00a0Sure, he can cut a ribbon and shake hands but there is no substance beyond that. \u00a0All of his so-called accomplishments are nothing more that what happens in the usual course of running the government. \u00a0Is he also going to take credit for the layoffs out at Micron? What about the dozens of businesses that come and go in old town? \u00a0Credit? \u00a0 Like most Republicans, Hal thinks that if he says something or prints something, the audience will believe him. \u00a0We must be cynical and we must question him which he has ruled out by backing out of the debate. \u00a0So the public will never really know what his positions are on any issue which is mirrors his stint as mayor. Who is Hal Parrish? \u00a0No one really knows. \u00a0But it’s not the whole story……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve voted every year in every election since I was 21 (had to be 21 at the time.) \u00a0Never ever have I seen as many mailers as I have received from “Hapless Hal.” \u00a0He claims the usual superlatives in today’s glossy 4 sider and also includes a promise that he will serve as our “voice” in the Senate. \u00a0Really? \u00a0I doubt it. \u00a0He will be the “voice” of the Virginia…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halparrish"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}