Richmond GOP challenged to repudiate Rove's anti-Richmond remarks at it's McCain HQ meeting tomorrow night

Goldman for Mayor - 12 August 2008 - For Immediate Release: Contact, 804-833-6313


12 August 2008


Mr. Cortland Putbrese
Chair,
Richmond Republican Committee
Richmond, Va


Dear Cortland:

According to you website, the Richmond Republican Committee is meeting tomorrow, August 13th, at the McCain Campaign Richmond Headquarters at 2819 Parham Road. This meeting will begin a 6:30 PM. Due to the recent disparaging comments about Richmond by Mr. Karl Rove, in his effort to demean our town and hold it up to national ridicule in hopes of gaining political advantage for the Republican national ticket, I believe the Richmond GOP has a community obligation, by formal resolution, to repudiate this former Bush White House official so that not just our fellow residents, but the entire nation, will see that we here in River City, Democrats and Republicans, are united in such repudiation of this offensive remarks uttered on national television.

To be sure, I am presuming that you and the members of your committee are by now aware of what Mr. Rove said this past Sunday, such disparaging comments the subject of Michael Paul Williams' column today in the Richmond Times Dispatch. Moreover, given Mr. Rove's status as another of those Inside-the-Washington-beltway commentators and believer that the bigger the government, the better [the federal deficit is now at an all-time high], his disparaging comments about middle-class towns like Richmond are, sadly, to be expected. They seem to have such an elitist attitude toward those towns whose residents raise the children, fight the wars, and obey the 10 commandments.

The people of Richmond, who have labored as hard as any in America to build our nation, don't need for someone who has benefited as much from this sacrifice as Mr. Rove - who has led a rather privileged life for most of this century at public expense - to be disparaged and ridiculed by a Republican of his stature on national television.

In this regard, I would hope we are all Richmonders, not divided into partisan political camps. To be sure, Mr. Rove may believe that Richmond is not the equal of Henderson, Nevada, a town that didn't even exist until after WW 2, a place that grew because it was a commute away from downtown Las Vegas, a locality best known in many circles for it's role in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever wherein Sean Connery barely foils the plan to cremate him alive at the Palm Mortuary!

But the issue now is not what he believes, but what the Richmond Republican Committee believes.

Accordingly, with this electronic letter, I am writing to request that your Richmond Republican Committee, at their meeting tomorrow, pass an appropriately worded formal resolution rejecting (1) the disparaging comments made by Mr. Rove and (2) extolling the many sacrifices and good works of Richmonders past and present in building not just a terrific City but a great state and country.


Sincerely,

Paul Goldman
Richmond
804-833-6313
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