Yesterday, the Washington Post published an article on Virginia Democrats running from President Obama. Ward Armstrong has tried to distance himself from Obama, but he isn’t quite ready to abandon ship just yet.
Armstrong has declined to say whether he would support Obama next year.
“I am who I am and I am for what I stand for,’’ he said in a recent interview . “I am interested in being the best delegate that I can be in Richmond. I’m about a race that’s going on in 2011; 2012 will be 2012.”
In case voters have forgot what Armstrong stands for, we can remind them. In the Martinsville Bulletin in February of 2008, he said this:
If ever there was a region in this state that needed Barack Obama, it is my district.
Ward Armstrong still supports Obama. Even he won’t deny it.
This time, it is NPR that picks up on Ward Armstrong’s false statements about Appalachian Power. Click Here to listen to the story.
Ninth District voters want a candidate that will create jobs and curb energy costs through real results, not just talk. During his time in the General Assembly, Ward Armstrong has done nothing to stop rate hikes. Now, he thinks he can win an election just by “fighting for you.”
If Ward is a fighter, then he’s never won a match. Since 2007, his electric utility regulation has failed to make it out of committee and has been killed on bipartisan votes.
Voters don’t want a fighter, they want someone with a record of results. On jobs, life, taxes, Barack Obama and electric utilities, Ward is Wrong for Virginia.
The Barack Obama-Ward Armstrong agenda is wrong for Virginia. Their prescription to our problems has been an $800 billion failed stimulus, a federal takeover of health care and a war on EPA that’s driving up the cost of our energy.
Now, even the New York Times recognizes that Virginia has had enough of the Obama-Armstrong record:
President Obama arrives in Virginia on his bus tour today, just as some Democratic candidates for the state legislature are running away from him.
Ward Armstrong, the top Democrat in the House of Delegates, is one of several incumbents up for re-election in the state’s off-year elections three weeks from now. And he’s one of several who have been tied to Mr. Obama by Republican rivals.
Ward Armstrong is Wrong on Obama.
