Virginia's Eric Cantor, Republican Whip, was up to his usual tricks of simply making up information when he stated on Monday that Democrats will go into hiding during the August recess. As usual, his words mean very little. Talk about hypocricy, here's what's going on in the state this month--Dems are out having town meetings while Republicans are meeting behind closed doors with members of the Tea Party.
Think Progress is reporting that both Robert Hurt running for a House seat in the 5th District and Bob Goodlatte from the 6th are part of the Lynchburg Tea Party meeting today (Aug. 5) even though the media is not allowed to have access. The
Lynchburg News and Advance, the local paper, has taken issue (see below) with candidates running for Congress from Virginia meeting in private with Tea Partiers. I guess Eric Cantor thinks there is no hypocrisy in that.
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Both [Goodlatte and Hurt] are public servants and both are running for public positions that deserve public scrutiny. Yet, neither candidate objected to excluding the media from the meeting. What exactly is the tea party’s problem with allowing the media to sit in on the proceedings at the Monte Carlo restaurant? Are there some secrets that Hurt and Goodlatte want to share with the members — or that the members want to share with the Republican candidates? Who knows? [...]
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