A BIG Sign - Really Big
Jerry Kilgore is thinking big. Really Big.
The next time you're driving through the Mixing Bowl, look up. There, on the side of one of the office buildings, you will see a huge, orange and blue banner for Kilgore.
The banner reads: "Get Traffic Moving. Kilgore. Governor." It's similar to one that Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chairman Sean Connaughton used during his campaign for lieutenant governor earlier this year. (George Allen also tried a similar trick during his Senate campaign in 2000, I'm told.)
Hmmm. Didn't Connaughton lose?
Well, I'm sure the Kilgore folks don't see that as an omen. Their goal, almost certainly, is to try to make inroads in the Northern Virginia vote by seizing on the transportation issue. The banner might be a good idea. More than 375,000 cars pass through the Mixing Bowl every day.
That's a lot of cars. But more importantly for Kilgore, that's even more voters
By Michael Shear |
September 3, 2005; 2:21 PM ET
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Posted by: | September 3, 2005 07:05 PM
Aaaaahh....a sign. A portent, perhaps?
Posted by: Faulkner's Sister, Charlottesville, Va. | September 3, 2005 10:27 PM
That skyscraper seems a regular haunt for losing conservatives. While it may not help him win, the sign is a brilliant stroke on the part of the Kilgore campaign. Rather than just putting up his campaing sign, he added the slogan "Get Traffic Moving." The problem is the slogan is at an intersection where traffic will move once construction is done in 2008. I wonder, did fiscal zealots of Kilgore's ilk support the necessary expense of this public works project?
Posted by: Omar | September 5, 2005 01:02 PM
So did Gilmore in 1997.
Shear- just about every major GOP statewide candidate puts a sign there. You going to write about it everytime? It's old news to everyone but you. Get some perspective.
Posted by: | September 7, 2005 07:08 AM
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Early had a sign there as well in 2001.