Good for
Jon Bowerbank, providing a perspective from Southwest Virginia on the offensive, divisive comments by Mike Huckabee and the silence (that speaks volumes) by Bob McDonnell.
I am outraged and extremely disappointed by the comments Mike Huckabee made this week pitting residents of Southwest Virginia against residents of Northern Virginia. Living in Southwest Virginia - my business is located in Tazewell County, in fact - and traveling all across the state, I know better than most that there is so much more that unites us as Virginians than divides us by our regions. Folks from Tazewell to Arlington are struggling to make ends meet in this economy; people from Danville to Virginia Beach have lost their health care and can't afford to buy a new plan; Virginians from Roanoke to Fairfax need better roads and more transportation options. We will not allow someone to come from out of state and try to divide our Commonwealth and pit one Virginian against another. I call on Mike Huckabee to apologize for his remarks and on Bob McDonnell to condemn them.
