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elleng

(130,902 posts)
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 07:46 PM Aug 2014

'Jack Trammell's website is remarkably unrevealing, or not.'

What do you all think?

(You remember Jack Trammell; he's David Brat's opponent, Brat being the Tea Party dude who took down Eric Cantor.) So his campaign page should up on my Facebook feed (yeah, sorry) and here it is:

And yes, that's all there is. Contributions and the mailing list. No About page, no platform, nothing about policy at all. (No, I'm not going to give the Democratic fundraising apparatchiks my email address, just to check if there's anything behind Jack's paywall.) Looks like the pros have put Jack in a box. (His Facebook page, which I decline to link to, is similarly uninformative, though he is touring the district and appearing in selfies and so forth). The Democrat regulars have gotten to him. For proof, I present the latest coverage I can find (and there's not much, oddly, or not):


Don’t know Jack? Post Cantor, Democrat gets new life in 7th
Now, a month after he entered the race for the 7th District’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, there’s still no easy answer to the question: Who is Jack Trammell?

Actually, if you'll listen to the YouTube at the post above, you'll see. I disagree vehemently with the guy, but I thought then, and think now, that Trammell has it in him to mug Brat, if he is allowed to do so. More:

“Voters want [not people deserve?] an ‘average guy’ who they can relate to, but they also expect their candidate to be sophisticated enough to deal with what they’ll have to do in Washington,” he said last week after walking in Brandermill’s annual Independence Day parade.

Sounds like Trammell's been taking lessons from somebody -- the YouTube doesn't sound that theme at all -- but who?

http://www.correntewire.com/jack_trammells_website_is_remarkably_unrevealing_or_not

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