Sarah Palin, the former Governor of Alaska and Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, has placed Virginia Democrat Tom Perriello on a target list of Congressional members to be defeated in this year’s mid-term elections.
Democratic members, like Perriello, who voted for the health care legislation Sunday are part of Palin’s campaign to go after lawmakers who voted for ‘Obamacare’ and hail from districts she and Arizona Senator John McCain won in the 2008 presidential election.
Launched on her personal profile on the social networking site Facebook, Palin’s “Don’t get Demoralized. Get Organized. Take Back the 20” campaign is the latest attempt to help Republican candidates by raising money and highlighting what she sees as destructive policies by Democrats.
“With the president signing this unwanted and ‘transformative’ government takeover of our health care system today with promises impossible to keep, let’s not get discouraged,” Palin wrote.
“We’re going to hold them accountable for this disastrous Obamacare vote,” she continued saying that November’s mid-term elections are an opportunity for “real change”.
Apart from urging her online supporters to work hard in defeating the twenty Democrats on the ‘hit list’, Palin will no doubt endorse and campaign for conservative Republican candidates in the districts listed below.
Tom Perriello’s 5th District is also on the National Republican Congressional Committee’s target list of 40 seats of Democrats who supported the health legislation.
“The fact is that a lot of Democrats took a lot of tough votes Sunday night and our goal will be to remind them of that for the next seven to eight months,” said Paul Lindsay, an NRCC spokesperson.
Republicans in the District are already active with one candidate, Laurence Verga, organizing a march this week to Perriello’s Charlottesville office saying the health care bill is “unconstitutional”.
Pink slips also made an appearance at themarch as did the usual signs and other protest paraphernalia though surprisingly including handcuffs in reference to a recent comment by Perriello.
The Congressman is reported as saying “if you don’t tie our hands, we’ll keep stealing” so Verga and his marchers brought him and his staffers some handcuffs “so he could tie his hands behind his back and no longer soak us of our money.”
Congressman Perriello would not comment about the march or the handcuffs but did say he voted in the interests of his district.
If Sarah Palin, were to actively campaign in the 5th District for a conservative Republican candidate and energize the Republican base into turning up to vote in November, along with the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the will of the tea partiers, Congressman Perriello may have a very short stay in the House of Representatives.
The Democratic members listed by Sarah Palin are: Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.), Harry Mitchell (Ariz.), Gabrielle Giffords (Ariz.), John Salazar (Colo.), Betsy Markey (Colo.). Allen Boyd (Fla.), Suzanne M. Kosmas (Fla.), Baron P. Hill (Ind.), Earl Pomeroy (N.D.), Charlie Wilson (Ohio), John Boccieri (Ohio), Kathy Dahlkemper (Pa.), Christopher Carney (Pa.), John M. Spratt, Jr. (S.C.), Tom Perriello (Va.), Alan B. Mollohan (W.Va.), and Nick J. Rahall II (W.Va.).
“We’ll aim for these races and many others,” Sarah Palin wrote. “This is just the first salvo in a fight to elect people across the nation who will bring common sense to Washington.”
A spokeswoman for Congressman Perriello could not be reached for comment at time of post.
