We can’t.
As if that weren’t enough, both The Virginian-Pilot (not available online) and the Richmond Times Dispatch had articles on Stolle’s primary source of funds for this campaign.
Stolle, brother of the state senator who is likely Virginia Beach’s next sheriff, has received $326,000.
That puts him at the top of the RSLC pledge class — and, assuming Stolle wins, in the crosshairs of a prying press that is suspicious of the corollary between cash and conduct.
Well, the best answer to that problem is to re-elect Joe Bouchard.
UPDATE: Here is a pdf of Sunday’s Pilot column.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
More negative campaigning. The wheels have finally come off the Democrat machine.
Funny – when the Republicans run negative ads, I don’t see you complaining.
I thought you were above all that.
Wow, when an incumbent has to run a “my opponent killed babies” ad, things are not going well. I’m completely unfamiliar with this race but that ad smells like a desperate incumbent to me.
Hey Salem Republican,
It’s fair game to go after Stolle on the mortality rate when the guy said on his website that he was responsible for the personal care and safety of the patients. He’s been trying to play the doctor card and it got him in trouble. Having said that the race could go either way.
I don’t live in that district, so I can’t vote for either of these guys, but I have to say that the Bouchard ad really bothers me. I’m pretty sure the hospital in question Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News. Just please keep in mind that Riverside is the only hospital on the Peninsula with a NICU(Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). One of the reasons the mortality rate is higher than normal is that they are the only hospital on that side of the water that can take care of babies that are severly premature, or very sick, etc. Unfortunatley that means sometimes those little ones don’t make it, even with top of the line care.
My point being that while the Bouchard ad is not wrong in its assertion that the mortality rate is higher, inferring that it is higher because of the job that Stolle is doing is somewhat of a stretch.