text: Exclusive: Former Rep. Tom Davis Says Virginia GOP Establishment Isn't at War with Tea Party Print article Send a Tip by Michael Patrick Leahy 30 Nov 2013 post a comment In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Monday, former Republican Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA) said that Bloomberg News/Business Week got the headline wrong in an article that reported "Virginia Republicans Organizing To Blunt Tea Party Power." To the contrary, "it's hardly an anti-tea party effort at all, " Davis told Breitbart News. Bloomberg News/Business Week reported that "[a] group of Virginia Republicans [including Davis], stung by the loss of the governorship after voters this month rejected Attorney General and Tea Party leader Ken Cuccinelli, are readying what would be one of the toughest intra-party revolts yet against the anti-tax movement." Davis, who represented Northern Virginia in the House of Representatives from 1994 to 2008, was described in the Bloomberg News/Business Week article as one of the nascent group's three leaders, along with Bobbie Kilberg, President of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, and Richmond attorney Wyatt Durrette, who was the GOP candidate for governor in 1985, a race he lost to Gerald Baliles by 55% to 45%. But Davis told Breitbart News that no organization has yet been formed. "I think the three of us and other people are in point of fact meeting. We are concerned about the direction of the party and the exclusivity of the party." Davis is no stranger to hardball politics. A close ally of former Congressman and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX), he headed up the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee from 1998 to 2002. He resigned from Congress in 2008 and is now Director of Government Relations for the the national accounting firm Deloitte, LLP. Until recently Davis was also the President of the Republican Main Street Partnership, now headed up by recently retired Congressman Steven LaTourette (R-OH). In December 2012, the Main Street Partnership formed the Defending Main Street Super PAC, which has publicly declared war on Tea Party candidates. On October 24, LaTourette told the National Journal "[h]opefully we'll go into eight to 10 races and beat the snot out of them [Tea Party candidates] . . . We're going to be very aggressive and we're going to get in their faces. " According to the Journal, "Defending Main Street aims to raise $8 million to fend off tea-party challenges against more mainstream Republican incumbents." Unlike Defending Main Street, which has openly declared its intent to take on Tea Party candidates, Davis focused more of his fire on the Republican Party's state infrastructure. He was highly critical of the Republican Party of Virginia's messaging and operations. "We have to go after ethnic voters and suburban voters," he said. "We have to have a broader base. We're ignoring the urban areas." According to Davis, "the Republican Party is not competitive in Northern Virginia. We divorce Northern Virginia. We don't carry our message there. There's nothing liberal about me, but I didn't talk about the social issues in Northern Virginia." "You can't win with what you're doing," Davis told Breitbart News. "The party's not going to do it. Somebody's going to have to step in, maybe a Statwide PAC." Davis skewered the Republican Party of Virginia's operational efforts. "The Republican Party of Virginia's get-out-the-vote effort is miserable," he told Breitbart News. "Their lists are terrible. The turnout was higher in the 2013 gubernatorial election, the president's numbers were worse, we did a little better with turnout, but they did a lot better." Earlier this month, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe defeated Republican Ken Cuccinell by a 47.7% to 45.2% margin. From a messaging perspectives, "we've got to add to the coalition," Davis said. "The goal here is to keep everybody together. The party is not interested in that. They like this to be a little club." Though he argued in favor of adding to the coalition, Davis could not resist taking a shot at some members of the Tea Party. "The Tea Party people are an important factor, the average Tea Party person wants to win," he said."Some of the Tea Party leaders on the blogs in Virginia don't want to win." Shaun Kenney, a member of the board of directors at Bearing Drift, the leading Virginia blog on conservative politics, told Breitbart News that Davis's claims that his efforts are not anti-Tea Party should be taken with a grain of salt. "The rumor here is that between Lieutenant Governor Bolling and former Congressman Davis, there's one million dollars being collected to knock off Republican Party of Virginia Congressional District chairmen," he said. "That's not an anti-Tea Party effort, that's an anti-conservative effort." According to Kenney, such an effort "is very much addition by subtraction. If they subtract the conservatives, they believe they will have the latitude to expand the base." As to Davis's criticism of conservative blogs, Kenney told Breitbart News "new media in Virginia is the pulse of the Republican Party. While various factions are attempting to breathe with one lung, we're breathing with both." Davis was especially critical of what he described as the failure of Republican candidates and the Republican Party of Virginia to engage with the voters and business community of Northern Virginia. He told Breitbart News that "the business community of Northern Virginia wrote the Cuccinelli campaign off," because "we didn't have anyone on the ticket who made the case to the Northern Virginia business community. There's no welcome mat out there in the Republican Party of Virginia for Northern Virginia technology executives." According to Davis, Cuccinelli lost the support of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce because their number one priority was rail to Dulles. "The technology leaders didn't give him any money. No one on the campaign identified with their business issues. Mark Warner [Virginia's Democratic Senator] hangs out with them, but we're not talking to them." For Republicans, Davis considers this a lost opportunity."These technology guys are culturally libertarian. They're with us on the economic stuff. A lot of it's in the presentation." The Northern Virginia Technology Council's Political Action Committee's endorsement of Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli over Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe six weeks before this November's election was widely reported as a controversial and hotly contested decision. That endorsement wasn't all that meaningful, according to Davis, because the PAC consisted of only 16 members who voted for Cuccinelli over McAuliffe by a narrow 9 to 7 for margin. The PAC members weren't the technology leaders themselves, according to Davis. They were, instead, the government relations staffers who worked for technology companies. The PAC's decision making process was independent of the Council itself. After word got out of a pending Cuccinelli endorsement, a furious behind-the-scenes effort to reverse that endorsement by many well connected Northern Virginia technology executives failed. Davis's wife, Jeannmarie Devolites Davis, is a former Virginia delegate and state senator who ran for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 2013 and was eliminated in the first ballot at the party's Richmond convention in May. Ms. Davis immediately endorsed E.W. Jackson, the Tea Party candidate in the race, upon her elimination. Jackson went on to win the party's nomination at the convention, but was defeated in the general election by Ralph Northam, 55% to 45%.


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ROGUE PLANET WITHOUT A SUN spotted in interstellar space
In images, it doesn't look like much: just a blue dot against the black of space. What's exciting about this little planet is that it has somehow manage to escape its star. Even getting an image of the object, dubbed CFBDSIR2149, is a pretty good trick: CFBDSIR2149 is only visible in the infrared, and then, only just (it appears …
They can locate a planet 100 light years away but my GPS still wants to send me the wrong way up a one way street on my morning commute.
Apple Maps by any chance?
Looks like someone sneezed on the lens.
They can show you the planet, but don't ask for directions...
I vaugely remember a short story about explorers encountering a sole planet so far away from other stars that the inhabitants were amazed that the universe contained anything more than just them. Wish I could remember what it was called.
@J.G. Harston: Sounds like Krikkit? http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Krikkit
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Not quite as remote, but Iain M Banks' "Against a Dark Background" is set (to very good effect) on a solar system that's been ejected from its galaxy.
Blish (who is completely out of favour as an SF writer - too intellectual) pointed out that drives which manipulate gravity or space need not be attached to a vehicle - they can just be attached to anything that you want to move. His "Cities in Flight" series describes whole commercial cities which specialise in specific services - often mining or refining - traveling the galaxy looking for work.
At one point a small planet is provided with propulsion in this way. Perhaps.....
"Welllll, Jjjohn..."
Cdr JK: VIKtor, what ISS it?
Prof. B: Wellll, Jjjjohn.. I am not sure....
My first thought was Telos, but I believe it was supposed to be Earth-sized.
"I vaugely remember a short story about explorers encountering a sole planet so far away from other stars that the inhabitants were amazed that the universe contained anything more than just them. Wish I could remember what it was called."
Well it wasn't the Bible then....
Re: Or...
Anorak primed.
I think you meant Mondas from 'The Tenth Planet' in which William Hartnell had a lie down and woke up as Patrick Troughton.
Re: Or...
"I think you meant Mondas from 'The Tenth Planet' [...]"
Aaargh, yes. Right story, wrong Cyber-planet. In my defense, I'm not old enough to have seen the broadcast and it's been decades since I read the novelization.
Getting my coat because clearly my anorak privileges will be suspended.
Very strange stuff
(a) How can something without a star be a planet
(b) How can such a 'planet' have an atmosphere
Think about it.
Re: Very strange stuff
'Planet' <Noun> (gk) Wanderer
'Atmosphere' <Noun> Gaseous envelope held onto surface of Planet (q.v) by Gravity.
Re: Very strange stuff
(a) The planet originally developed around the star, but was torn loose due to gravitational interactions.
(b) It's a planet, why can't it have an atmosphere? If you mean why has it's atmosphere not frozen solid, well Jupiter emits more energy than it absorbs from the Sun due to gravitational contraction (it shrinks about 1 cm in radius per century).
Re: Very strange stuff
There's also a grey zone between a wandering gas giant planet and a brown dwarf star. Jupiter emits more energy than it receives from Sol, because something (probably a very small amount of hydrogen fusion) is going on in its core.
"Torn loose by gravitational interactions" implies some sort of catastrophic interaction such as another star passing close to a solar system. That's not necessary. Any solar system with more than two bodies is stable only in a statistical sense. A 3,4, ... N body gravitationally bound system is chaotic, and it is always possible that what appears to be a stable orbit will in fact end up with one of the planets ceasing to be gravitationally bound to its sun.
You'll be unsurprised to know that the future of the solar system has been carefully modelled. Earth is safe for the next 200M years or so. Beyond that, we can't say. The observations aren't good enough to distinguish longer-term stability from its opposite. Such is the nature of a chaotic system. An unmeasurably small difference today may be the difference between earth remaining in orbit or not, 300M years hence. "Past performance may not be a reliable guide to future performance"!
Back to mini brown dwarfs or large wandering planets, it's possible that these might be the last habitable places after all the universe's stars have burned themselves out. Has anyone ever written a far-future SF story set on or within one?
Re: Very strange stuff
"because something (probably a very small amount of hydrogen fusion) is going on in its core."
Oh dear, Mars is apparently experiencing climate change. It could be dangerous if Jupiter has the same...
Re: Very strange stuff
"a) How can something without a star be a planet"
If we don't keep up repayments on the Sun we'll find out.
Re: Very strange stuff
Wow commentards! A planet with still some hydrogen fusion in its core, and an atmosphere, and no star in sight. And gravitation causing high temperatures too. I like it. Keep the downvotes coming!
Re: Very strange stuff
(a) is just a naming convention. Doesn't fit neatly into any other category, exo-planet will do for the moment.
(b) atmsophere is dependent on the planet's own gravity and composition, only slightly affected by suns and neighbouring planets
What's really curious for me is the temperature of 430C - it's out in deep space and can't be absorbing heat from anywhere else, in fact even considering a thick pea-soup atmosphere it must be losing heat to it's surroundings, and must have been doing so for a loooooong time. So is it possible that it's producing energy through very low-level fusion only happening deep in the core?
Re: Very strange stuff
"So is it possible that it's producing energy through very low-level fusion only happening deep in the core?"
Not necessary. It's even bigger than Jupiter and both Jupiter and Saturn produce more heat than they receive. The steady compression of all that mass + slow natural radioactive decay produce more than enough heat to reach a few hundred degrees.
Re: Very strange stuff
"Not necessary. It's even bigger than Jupiter and both Jupiter and Saturn produce more heat than they receive."
True, but even so they're still bloody cold.
"The steady compression of all that mass + slow natural radioactive decay produce more than enough heat to reach a few hundred degrees."
There would have to be an unfeasible amount of radioactivity to heat a gass giant planet 7 times the mass of jupiter up to 430C given that the majority of its mass (if it is a gas giant) won't be made of anything radioactive. More than likely it is just gravitation compression as you said + residue heat from its formation.
Re: Very strange stuff
According to NASA website, Jupiter's surface temperature is -145C. Core temperature is unknown but "may be about" 24,000 C. Also found this nugget on universetoday: "Jupiter would have to add about 80 times its current mass in order to become massive enough to ignite fusion"
Since this planet is 7 times Jupiter's mass likely no fusion, just compression, and if surface temp is around 400C, core most be rather hot enough to warrant a few beers
Re: Very strange stuff
Easy, it's the Pierson's Puppeteers homeworld.
Re: Very strange stuff, that heat
The heat is a side-effect of the Blish drives, plus the air conditioners...
Re: Very strange stuff
430°C might seem hot at first without a star to warm it, but please remember that it is still a very young planet: somewhere between 50 million and 120 million years old. It hasn't had much time to cool down from when it was formed.
Re: Very strange stuff
It's very young so its going to be generating a lot of internal heat as it compacts under gravity and then differentiates according to density. And we're talking about an enormous amount of energy - the Earth obtained something like 2.5 * 10^32J from compression and another 1 * 10^31J during the formation of the Core.
Too obvious?
"It's too big to be a space station." "I have a bad feeling about this."
Re: Too obvious?
The article misses some important details about the planet that really need answering:
a) Does this planet have horns?
b) Is it largely made of metal?
c) Is it voiced by Orson Wells?
Deeply concerned minds wish to know.
Re: Too obvious?
Perhaps It's a moon escaped from a planet.
Re: Perhaps...
That's no Moon...
Re: Too obvious?
If it was, it should be called CFBDSIR1999.
Re: Too obvious?
In that case if it isn't Moonbase Alpha it's the whole moon
Re: Too obvious?
And another important question.
d) Is it coming our way?
Re:that's no moon...
You beat me to it, dammit. It's clearly the Death Star.
Awesome,.... first thing I thought of when I read the headline!!!
Knew by the comments someone had posted this already.... obviously its a death star, and will be here in 2 years - moving at Warp speed (50 x speed of light)
"The astronomers believe there's an 87 percent chance that CFBDSIR2149 is associated with the AB Doradus Moving Group, based on a comparison of images taken by the WIRCam instrument at CFH and the ESO's SOFI camera."
Fallacy of misplaced precision?
Re: 87%?
For all we know, they quantize their values to 0,29,58,87 and 100 %
Oh crap...
it's the Vegan Orbital Fort...
Re: Oh crap...
Thanks for the warning. I'm going out now, to buy a bigger freezer and begin stockpiling beefburgers.
What they failed to mention
Is it's headed straight for earth and should arrive within the next millennium..
Re: What they failed to mention
That means it's traveling at > 0.1c.
Maybe we should ask xkcd about the effect the earth's impact on this planet has at those speeds.
Cue Space 1999 theme tune!
Space 1999.....
Sadly a missed opportunity for an update at the appropriate time.
(i.e. You could of had the big explosion in the first episode creating a big sucky worm hole type thing. The worm hole obviously slurps the moon to a random piece of space for adventures to occur and disappears. But then ,because it's a weird worm hole, it reappears, (maybe 50 minutes TV time later), and continues it's suckage. Gives the writers quite a lot of scope for random encounters, political infighting, and killing off of expensive characters/actors when needs must. )
cue.... the breakaway tracks from when
The Enterprise Bridge view screen fills and when the 1701 is groaning trying to break away.
Of course, what would all that be without the pointed eyebrows and tha command "DEEFLEKTOR SHEELDS -- FULLLL INTENSITEEEE!" :-)
My brain is mush this morning --
But my first thought on reading this was .. Oh look, the Puppeteers are coming. I'm just wondering if I'm remembering that correctly. I think not.
BINGO! - we Need a "coffee" Icon.!
Re: My brain is mush this morning --
You are only partially wrong. The error is that the Puppeteers have five worlds in a "Kemplerer Rosette" (I believe that was what Niven called it. He was wrong anyway.) rather than just one.
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Cam Newton can relax a little as he heads into the week's preparation for the Falcons in Atlanta. That's because his Panthers received a little help on Sunday keeping them relevant for at least a few more weeks.
Carolina got some good news early in the afternoon when the Cowboys knocked off the Buccaneers and the Chiefs came away with one of the big upsets of the day stunning the still winless Saints. However, the late game dashed any hope of getting help in three different cities as the Falcons went to 3-0 off a 24-point victory over a Chargers squad that is now no longer unbeaten.
The NFC South is a one team division at this point with Atlanta up by a pair of games on Carolina and Tampa Bay, three up on New Orleans–not a good place to be in after just three games. The Panthers can control their own fate pulling to within one game if they can ground the Falcons, but that is a tall order having to play on their turf, even if everyone was upbeat. They are not, and it begins with the man under center.
Steve Smith lit into Newton on the sideline hoping to get him out of his funk. It didn't work this time; just as much as it failed last year in a similar circumstance. Sitting all alone on the bench with a towel draped over your head does nothing but have your teammates question your leadership abilities and possibly your character.
They say you can learn a lot by watching; maybe that is why the backup quarterback carries a clipboard and is attached to the head coach like a mother is to her child. There was something learned on Thursday but it was about Newton – he detached himself from the rest of the team because they were losing.
Newton's character has been tested and the results are mixed–super high after a win but the lows obliterate the other strides he makes. So far, Newton has a losing record and if he cannot turn it around, the sulking will have the Panthers' brass thinking they made a mistake taking him with the first overall pick.
Newton's desire to win is understandable, and should be lauded. He will flash that huge ear-to-ear grin for days on end when things go well. That desire should not be tinkered with by a coach, front office or even the media. There are enough defeatists in professional sports and some teams are more than willing tom part ways with them even if they have superior talent or are one of the best players on it.
The second year pro out of Auburn set all sorts of rookie records in 2011, but the knock against him has carried into this season, and you have to look no further than Newton's post game press conference last Thursday. The word "bust" is beginning to circulate and that comes after many repetitions of another called "whiner."
It has already leaked out that the team is concerned about the mental makeup of the 23-year old. ESPN's Chris Mortensen said so on Sunday NFL Countdown. Even if you think that Mortensen got some bogus information, how far from the truth is it?
Here is another thought. If the Panthers can Newton's shortcomings, imagine what their opponents see. If they know he can be taken out his your game with a few bad breaks they will do everything in their power make it happen. And that failing could become a huge problem for the franchise going forward.
There is a huge long-term investment in Newton. Should he fail to live up to the promise of better days ahead because he cannot handle the NFL pressure cooker, there could be a lot fans disguised as empty seats at Bank of America Stadium again.
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2013-2014 NEC Preview: Changes at the top
Oct 7, 2013, 12:00 PM EST
All month long, CBT will be rolling out our 2013-2014 season preview. Check back throughout the day, as we'll be posting three or four preview items every day. To browse through the preview posts we've already published, click here. To see the rest of the Conference Previews we've published, click here. For a schedule of our previews for…
Top Posts
- JayVaughn Pinkston's block gives No. 12 Villanova a win over No. 19 Michigan (VIDEO) 1
- Maryland upsets No. 13 Iowa State as fearless freshmen mix with gritty veterans for balanced effort 3
- Rondae Hollis-Jefferson's selflessness during the Maui Invitational will help No. 3 Arizona in the long run 0
- Player of the Year Power Rankings: A familiar face on top, but a few surprises behind him 0
- Ricky Doyle secures 70-63 win for No. 19 Michigan over Oregon in Legends Classic 0
- Villanova's win is evidence of why VCU may have peaked as a basketball program 13
- Mike Brey was excited about Notre Dame's loss because the Irish have their closer back 1
Most Commented
- Poll: 54 percent of people think Kentucky beats the 76ers, 54 percent of people are dumb (31)
- Villanova's win is evidence of why VCU may have peaked as a basketball program (13)
- Rick Pitino on blow out win: 'We played four white guys and an Egyptian' (7)
- Michigan's John Beilein rips ESPN for late tip time during Tuesday's loss (7)
- College Basketball Talk's latest top 25: Kentucky reigns, but how far will Kansas, Florida slide? (5)