This interview, like his letter last week, shows why Tom Perriello is truly a public servant and not just a politician like those with whom we are most acquainted. Tom just gets it – and he says something I’ve always believed to be true:
I think it helps to have politicians who don’t mind losing an election.
I’m sure we’ve not heard the last of Tom Perriello.(A transcript of the entire interview is here.)
Too bad, since he legislated with his head up his a**.
Posted by James Young | Thursday, December 30, 2010, 9:52 amI hope he returns for a rematch in 2012. Perriello made one proud to be a Democrat.
We won’t have a small turnout electorate that was filled with old, white republicans like 2010. We will have a turnout of a more diversified electorate to tip all those close 51/49 elections the GOBP won and recapture many or most of them in 2012.
Posted by Newport News Dem | Thursday, December 30, 2010, 5:34 pmI wish we could clone Perriello and run him everywhere. A man of principle, for sure.
Posted by vjp | Thursday, December 30, 2010, 10:10 pmDepends on what Sen. Webb wants to do.
Posted by J.R. Hoeft | Thursday, December 30, 2010, 5:54 pmThink so? I’m not convinced Sen. Webb has the ability to be a major influence, pro or con, for any of the down-ballot Congressionals, at least not for those who have held elected office before.
Part of me wants to go back and look at his numbers in 2006 against the House races to form a coherent argument, but part of me also remembers he had practically no organization to speak of south of Fredericksburg so there’d be very little point.
Posted by Silence Dogood | Thursday, December 30, 2010, 6:13 pmI think JR is thinking that if Webb doesn’t run for re-election, Perriello might run for the Senate.
Posted by vjp | Thursday, December 30, 2010, 10:12 pmOh, gotcha, that makes more sense. I was thinking he was responding specifically to NND’s comment about the demographics of turnout between 2010 and 2012.
Posted by Silence Dogood | Friday, December 31, 2010, 7:50 pm