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Republican leaders shunning party's nominee for Northern Neck House seat Date published: 8/23/2009
BY FRANK DELANO Rep. Rob Wittman has joined other top Republican leaders in the state who are shunning Catherine T. Crabill, a controversial candidate for the Northern Neck's seat in the House of Delegates. Wittman spokesman Steve Stampley said last week that the congressman from Montross will endorse neither Crabill nor incumbent Albert Pollard, D-Lancaster, in the race for the House seat Wittman once held. Wittman also has no plans to appear with Crabill at campaign events or to donate money to her campaign, Stampley said. The chairman of the state Republican Party and GOP candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general have also said they would stay clear of Crabill after her remarks last month in Heathsville. "We do not condone or support the comments Catherine Crabill has made. That kind of talk has no place in civil political discourse. She has received no assistance from the state party, nor will she in the future," said Virginia Republican Party Chairman Pat Mullins. In response, Northern Neck Republicans have rallied around Crabill, a 52-year-old real-estate agent. District GOP Chairman R. Allen Webb of King George County announced last week that he will head a steering committee to help Crabill. "I will do all that I can to help Catherine succeed," said Webb, who ran unsuccessfully against Pollard for the House seat in 2001. Webb said Crabill "is solidly grounded in the Constitutions of the United States and Virginia and the principles of our Founding Fathers. How very appropriate for someone who wants to represent the Northern Neck, where those principles began. I urge Republicans to rally behind Catherine's banner." But GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell will not be among them. "We will not campaign for or with Catherine Crabill," said McDonnell spokesman T. Tucker Martin.
Allen Webb = "Northern Neck Republicans"?
C'mon, Frank... Even the Northern Neck News (a weekly in Warsaw) did a better job of covering this story, with opposing viewpoints to those expressed by Webb and Bill Kling, Crabill's campaign manager.
Don't depend upon Fred2Blue headlines to write your stories. Actually go out and do some "shoe-leather reporting," like attending local GOP meetings where Crabill speaks (like the NNN reporter did the other night and you didn't...).
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