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Kilgore Snags TechPAC Endorsement

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James A. Bacon
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My Democratic friends have been telling me for so long now that Jerry Kilgore’s “hick” accent would turn off sophisticated Northern Virginia voters that I started believing them. So it comes as a surprise to see that the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s political action committee has endorsed Kilgore for governor. I blow off most endorsements as either meaningless or predictable. But the TechPAC announcement, which comes at a time that Kilgore’s lead in the polls has shriveled to nothing, could give him a significant lift in the final weeks of the campaign.

States the Kilgore campaign press release:

“After careful deliberation, NVTC TechPAC determined that Jerry Kilgore is the better choice when it comes to sustaining and growing Northern Virginia’s vibrant technology industry, and he takes stronger positions on several of our key issues,” said John Backus, Chairman of TechPAC and Managing Director of Draper Atlantic. “Kilgore has a record of substantial achievement on issues important to our industry including the strengthening of Virginia’s anti-spam and anti-phishing laws, initiatives he championed as Attorney General.”

While Attorney General, Kilgore successfully pushed for the nation’s toughest anti-Spam law and used it to obtain the first-ever felony Spam conviction in the United States. Additionally, he improved the computer crimes statutes to make “phishing” – using e-mail to lure victims into providing personal information – a crime. Kilgore also toughened laws against using computers for child pornography. He was the first Attorney General to appoint a Deputy Attorney General to specialize in technology issues.

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  1. Steve Haner Avatar
    Steve Haner

    One of the Kilgore campaign’s better issue briefs, which has not gotten as much attention as some other proposals, directly addresses many of the issues in this realm. It was one of the first ones issued. You can read it here.

    Let’s see if I linked that right!

  2. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    “My Democratic friends have been telling me for so long now that Jerry Kilgore’s “hick” accent would turn off sophisticated Northern Virginia voters that I started believing them.”

    Oh really? Which ones were telling you that? My, uh Republican friends keep telling me that Kaine is a poohead. Those crazy rude Republicans I sometimes talk about! They sure are an ANGRY people!

    Let’s be serious here: no one thinks his _accent_ is a problem. (Oddly, I’ve met plenty of Gate City natives that don’t sound like him at all, so I’m not even sure the accent is entirely authentic). It’s the fact that he lisps with a feminine voice, particularly when he gets flustered, that everyone, Republicans and Democrats alike, raise their eyebrows at. If it were only nasty, evil vile Democrats saying that, then his campaign wouldn’t be begging to embargo all audio and video of him, or digitally modifying his voice on his commericals or speech coaching him and so on.

  3. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Oh for goodness sake1 Can we just forget this stuff about accents? I am a Democrat from the western part of the state and the accent is an issue that the Republicans seem to have cooked up in order to claim some kind of “discrimination” and to rally the “friends and neighbors” vote.

    Look, “there’s no there there” with Jerry Kilgore. He’s an empty suit ( or an empty orange shirt). Now, if they’d just nominated the smart and friendly twin….

  4. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Oh, get over it! Kilgore only got that endorsement coz of the spam legislation he brought in. It was all just part of his job as Attorney General (back when it was his job before he quit), and one that any decent AG would have done. And, I bet dollars to donuts he had nothing to do with the actual drafting of the legislation. He was just in the right place at the right time.

  5. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    I think that you’ve missed a key point. Nobody (except Republicans trying to throw up a smoke screen) ever actually suggested that Kilgore’s ‘hick’ accent would turn off voters. It’s his flaming gay, effeminate, homosexual voice that turns off voters. Let’s not deny the elephant in the middle of the living room.

    Listen to Jerry talk and then listen to his twin brother. Jerry sounds like Mr. Garrison from ‘South Park’. Terry doesn’t. This isn’t a regional accent. It’s a weak and effeminate manner of speaking which is unique to Jerrry Kilgore.

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