Looks like the down-ticket GOP candidates are falling into line behind the Kilgore campaign team on the weighty issue of the display of signage during the Shad planking. “The sign war is considered a demonstration of grassroots strength and organization,” noted Kilgore campaign manager Ken Hutcheson in an April 7 memo that has just come to my attention. But all down-ticket campaigns “would come together as a whole to assist in the Kilgore effort to win the sign war against Tim Kaine.”
The candidates for lieutenant governor (Bill Bolling, Sean Connaughton and Gil Davis) and for attorney general (Steve Baril and Bob McDonnell) all agreed to display only those signs authorized by the Kilgore for Governor campaign. Each down-ticket campaign will be responsible for providing up to volunteers and/or staff to assist with Kilgore signage. Said the Hutcheson memo: “There will be no down-ticket sign war within the Republican Party.”
Memo to the George Fitch for Governor campaign: Better send a busload of volunteers to the shad planking. No signs = no visibility with the political establishment and punditocracy = no campaign.
