Tuesday, October 18, 2011
News & Advance: Republican leaders encourage supporters to contact voters: Reps. Robert Goodlatte, Robert Hurt and other Republican leaders in the Lynchburg area told the party’s volunteers Monday that a GOP win in the 22nd District state Senate race depends on how many phone calls they can make to prospective voters…Virginia’s General Assembly has competing Democrat- and Republican-drafted proposals for congressional redistricting sitting on its shelf until after the Nov. 8 election…A Republican-drafted plan for congressional redistricting would keep Lynchburg in Goodlatte’s 6th District. A Democrat-drafted plan, as it now reads, would split Lynchburg between Hurt’s and Goodlatte’s 5th and 6thdistricts…Hurt told the crowd, “We have 21 days to get bumper stickers out and most importantly, to call friends and neighbors.” “That’s how we won in 2010, and it’s how we win this one,” said Hurt, who unseated Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello for the 5th District seat in Congress a year ago.
