Powell slams Cantor at open town hall meeting.
Local Democrats energized for the upcoming election packed Raven’s Nest Coffee House on Davis Street Thursday night to welcome and hear from congressional candidate Wayne Powell. . .
Cantor’s name came up a lot during Thursday’s “Open Town Hall Meeting” hosted by Powell, who was articulate and well received by local constituents in attendance.
“I love this country and we’ve got a lot of problems,” said Powell of why he is running for elected office for the first time.
“But I’m not a whiner and am not a person who thinks fear and loathing is the way to run a country. I think you’ve got be constructive, you’ve got to be engaging and you’ve got to get the facts to find the problem and solve it.”
Powell listed his top three issues if elected as: 1) the economy and jobs; 2) changing the way Congress operates and 3) transparency in government while weeding out the influence of money.
“The economy is off the cliff because we have a Congress that’s dysfunctional. Mr. Cantor is part of that,” Powell said. “We have a difficult debt, but it’s not intractable. It wasn’t made overnight – it can’t be paid off overnight, but we need to pay off the debt. That is not a democrat or republican issue, that’s an American issue.”
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