Cantor challenger visits Culpeper tonight.
The Democratic candidate challenging the deep-rooted Congressional incumbent in Virginia’s Seventh District drops by downtown Culpeper today on a campaign stop even as the closely watched race continues to heat up.
Wayne Powell, D-Richmond, hosts one of a series of “Open Town Hall Meetings” tonight at 7 p.m. at Raven’s Nest Coffee House, 254 E. Davis St.
Powell, 61, is a Richmond native and attorney who spent 30 years in the U.S. Army. He is seeking to unseat six-term Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Richmond, in the November election. . .
Powell, who worked in the state attorney general’s office and as managing attorney for CIGNA before opening his own firm in 1999, is a first time candidate for elected office. He said in a release last year that he is qualified to represent the constituents of the Seventh District “whom Cantor has never represented.”
Powell said the incumbent is interested in “his own advancement and in promoting the objectives of others, not his constituents.”
Powell named his top priorities if elected to office as: preserving Medicare and Social Security, ending tax breaks for the rich, immigration reform and support of the president’s healthcare package.
‘2012 is different’
In a recent interview with The Urban Politico, an online news radio site, Powell addressed why he was challenging Cantor.
“My country is in trouble. I love my country. I want to make things better,” he said. “I could do nothing better than to try to defeat the poster child for dysfunction, obstruction and the self-centered corporate kind of takeover that our system has experienced.”
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Them guns are backfiring. Devils if you ask me. 
Just in case anyone else wants to join them! 
P.S., I'm HERE in Culpeper NOW! Crowd trickling in, even tho there's a music festival at the park 1/3 block away!
