Sunday, October 12, 2008

Bob Goodlatte's ties to racist Bobby May

Bob Goodlatte is friends with Bobby May. Who is Bobby May? What is so bad about him?

Bobby May is the southwest Virginia GOP activist, treasurer of the Buchanan County Republican Party, and racist who wrote a disgusting and offensive article attacking Barack Obama in his local newspaper. Among the vile crap, May wrote that Obama would hire Ludacris to paint the White House black, change the national antemm into the "black national anthemm," raise taxes to "pay for Obama's inner-city political base" and replace the U.S. flag with a new one that had "a star and crescent logo."

May was a member John McCain's Virginia leadership team. The McCain campaign broke off the relationship with with him only after the story went national when the Los Angeles Times published parts of May's vitriol. A few days later, Bob McDonnell, a co-chair of McCain's Virginia leadership team, current attorney general, and a candidate for governor in 2009, also sought to distance himself from May. So far, no comment has been heard from Chris Saxman, another outspoken member of the leadership team and member of the House of Delegates from Staunton.

Back to Bob Goodlatte. What exactly is his relationship with Bobby May? I think Bob owes us all an explanation. We do know that the Goodlatte campaign throws significant cash to Mr. May's advertising business. According to OpenSecrets.org, the Goodlatte campaign bought $7,508 from May Advertising Specialities in 2006. Was there even a campaign then? Records for campaign expenditures are not complete for 2008, but it is likely the close relationship continues.

Virginia Public Access Project records show May Advertising Specialities has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by Republican candidates in Virginia, including over $9,000 by the Staunton delegate and almost $75,000 by the attorney general.

Ah, the ties that bind. Mr. Goodlatte, tell us more about your ties and friendship with Bobby May.

Cross-posted at Coarse Cracked Corn

6 comments:

Bubby said...

Mark Warner brought jobs and industry to thousands of struggling families in Southwest. The Republican party pays some fat party crony hundreds of thousands of dollars to print their propaganda. That is the difference - the Republican Party doesn't care about working people. Choose wisely.

republitarian said...

Too bad you don't examine closely Barack's buddies.....

Belle Rose said...

republitarian, I'll leave that to you. In the meantime why don't you address the issue raised about the Goodlatte/May connection... or does it hit to close to to home?

Anonymous said...

Just how is Bobby May racist, again? Can you Dems do anything but throw out the race card at everyone so as to insulate your own deeply-flawed Marxist candidate while slinging arrows at his opposition?

BO's friends bombed the Capitol and Pentagon. BO's spiritual mentor is a racist, anti-American radical who dabbles in Black Liberation theology. BO's home was purchased with the help of a convicted felon. BO was a member of the Socialist New Party in the mid 90's. BO's friends at ACORN are currently committing voter fraud in numerous states, a group he paid over $800K to. So, you'll excuse me if I don't care too much about this May dude and some stupid piece he wrote in a local paper.

Bubby said...

John McCain"s efforts to help his buddy Chas Keating lift regulation from the Savings&Loan industry cost the taxpayers over $120 million to bail them out...and cost McCain a censure from the Senate Ethics Committee. And now we know that John McCain's current campaign manager took $2 million from Fannie Mae over the last 5 years. We know all we need to know about what matters to John McCain - money and power. John McCain sold his soul, my friends.

Bubby said...

...lost three zeros there, the S&L bailout cost the taxpayers $125 Billion - back in the day when a billion dollars was worth a lot more than it is today.