If I put myself in front of my constituents, it ain’t going to be pretty.
--Catawba College political scientist Michael Bitzer, explaining the fear among Republicans in Congress about facing the voting public
Virginia Foxx knows ugly. She held a famous "listening tour" in Boone during her first term in Congress (2006). She went to a local restaurant (limited seating, natch) and wanted to hear from Chamber of Commerce types and elected officials, but the general public also showed up and crowded into that restaurant, so much so that the worried MC announced that this wasn't in fact a "town hall" at all but a listening tour for important community people to tell Congresswoman Foxx their dreams and druthers, but that Congresswoman Foxx might take a few questions from the audience at the end. The end came. Didn't go well.
She ain't been back in a public setting like that since.
I know of only one genuine town hall she's ever held, in Statesville in Iredell County in 2010 when Billy Kennedy was running against her. Several of us went down to Statesville to attend. It was a very polite crowd in a large space, but she answered only written questions from the audience, passed to her by aides. We all suspected heavy screening by the aides. During that 2010 campaign she also consented to a legendary debate with Billy Kennedy in Ashe County. So in several ways, 2010 has to be judged her most "out" year ever. She hasn't exposed herself to the public like that since. Oh she gets in front of plenty of cameras, but those are controlled occasions -- whenever Trump signs something Congressional Republicans are proud of.
In 2009, Congresswoman Foxx delayed her speaking role at a Masonic Picnic until after the Mocksville police dispersed approximately 30 protestors. After her speech, this happened (and has become a piece of folklore in Davie County). From an eye witness: "When a woman walked up to her afterwards, and introduced herself as the chairperson of the Democratic Party of Davie County, Virginia backed away so abruptly she ALMOST -- but saved by a trusty Veteran -- fell off the stage."
Foxx is fragile. As a fox, she'd be in a glass menagerie.
She's known on Capitol Hill for "the Foxx sprint," literally running away from questions and microphones. She's only brave (and remarkably obnoxious) when she's part of a mob:
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It's OVER for Foxx just like it's OVER for Trump. They are spoiled meat and moldy bread. The wealthy brokers are auditioning new comedians and spokesmodels. For too long voters have been
hosed by a "Fugue for Tinhorns" as if we had no standing. When politics is treated like a sports contests the masses have no input. Virginia Foxx has been part of a diversion that substituted cultural squabbles for kitchen table
struggles. In that interim a giant accountability deficit was run up to parallel the
abyss of financial debt that imprisons us. Will we let the brokers continue to collect on both accounts or will we stiff out creditors? Everyone knows governments has become illegitimate because of the wealth gap and the
credibility chasm.
In examining Mamdani (and other egalitarians) Jerry has made a breakthrough.
He had no choice because so many things came due all at once.
The ugly old hag needs to go!
She will be reelected by the MAGA base outside of Watauga county. She is despised in her home county.
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