Reply #5: Gov. Warner is a multi-millionaire, who owned a BIG high-tech

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company in Northern Virginia, and cashed in when life was still good in high tech businesses, this is his first foray into politics....he's a Democrat,

and it seemed to me that a HUGE number of people here got massively confused with our Senator, John Warner (reTHUGlican - Cheap Labor Conservative), who has been in office for 27 years.....and LOVES the shrub...stands up for shrub all the time to the point of sickening most people...and does little for regular people in the State of Virginia...John Warner reminds me of old strom...Sen.John warner comes from a long line of inherited plantation slave owners, OLD Virginia wealth, someone who should definitely pay reparations....Senator Warner ran UNOPPOSED on the ballot for the 2002 election, which made me sick (so I wrote in a candidate, my only option)...


link to Sen. JOHN warner's web site
http://warner.senate.gov/about/aboutthesenator.htm

so, this goes to show, an old political tactic...get someone on the ballot with the same name...it can split the vote for your candidate between TWO candidates (assuring defeat) or in this case, of the famous WARNER name...guarantees a victory to anyone named WARNER...it amazes me to no end that there is NO party designation on the ballots here in Alexandria, Virginia...so, straight party votes are impossible...splitting the vote is also what nadar did, guaranteeing that easily-deceived not-too-smart voters would give the victory to shrub by splitting the Democratic vote...I fear that this too is where Dean is leading...to a vote split, guaranteeing a shrub win...


on edit: Governor Warner is more of an opportunist, and a repub-lite, like Lieberman...he's hardly a TRUE Democrat...however, in light of Virginia long-time KKK politics, I'm impressed that a Democrat-in-name-only is holding the Governorship...that's quite an accomplishment...I prefer though, REAL Democrats, like the new Mayor of Alexandria, Bill Euile...proud to have worked on this one, all Democratic people as of May 6,2003, on Alexandria City Council, and OUR first Black Mayor in 254 years, a beneficiary of affirmative action, Bill paves the way for others, and still lives in the neighborhood that he grew up in, the Alexandria public housing area...now an enterprise zone...

http://ci.alexandria.va.us/city/city-government/councilbios.html