Sayre: Out Pressing the Flesh!

Scott Sayre had a great day out on the campaign trail this blustery Saturday! He hit Martins, Wal-Mart & Home Depot getting signatures, and meeting voters. Valuable Name Recognition, and just good ol' fashioned politicing... Scott will be out again tomorrow in the district gathering signatures and engaging the public.

This campaign is also picking up new volunteers we wished we had back in the Kilgore/Bolling/McDonnell days.. A great asset to our SWAC Political machine is awesome candidates like Sayre who really help bring 'new blood' into the party. It's not just the same old 'crew' working the signs, talking to voters, and gathering signatures!

I think during the Allen campaign, we all had a let down.. no new Volunteers really showed up at the door. It didn't have the excitement of the 04' Bush campaign. The 04' campaign is where SWAC really took off when the Augusta County Chairman began to whip our county into shape, and reached out to Staunton and Waynesboro to coordinate our campaigns... We held two golf tournaments, with the second one incorporating a dinner debate party (second debate).

I feel that same excitement in this campaign, the announced retirements of Sen's Potts and Chichester has really got us grass roots folks fired up about bringing real change to the VA General Assembly. We all sat around frustrated since the 04' Warner tax increase where 'Our' Senators sided with a Democrat Governor and raised taxes during a time of surplus! The following year, more of the same with Kaine coming in...

The grass roots volunteers were embarrassed for our House of Delegates members, who could only shake their heads and say, "We can't do anything with the Senate, it's only new & higher taxes!" Now we have a chance to do something postive for the Party, and change the 'Culture' of the Senate, starting with our own 24th District!

It has the excitement of the old Allen Campaigns for Governor and his first Senate run, where we won awesome victories over Sen. Robb, and defeated Mary Sue Terry! Those were campaigns about issues, not just empty rhetoric, this campaign is for the 'Heart & Soul' of Conservative politics in the most solid Republican District in Virginia!