{"id":641,"date":"2005-08-18T11:01:46","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/08\/18\/potts_heavyweig\/"},"modified":"2005-08-18T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T15:01:46","slug":"potts_heavyweig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/08\/18\/potts_heavyweig\/","title":{"rendered":"Potts&#8217; Heavyweight Supporters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a sign that Russ Potts may yet gain traction in the gubernatorial race, past chairmen of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/08\/17\/AR2005081702024.html\">have sent a letter to the chamber<\/a> asking it to invite Russ Potts to the planned Sept. 13 gubernatorial debate.  Chamber President Bill Lecos says that won\u2019t happen.  Leading the charge on Potts behalf is Mike Anzilotti, who says neither Kaine nor Kilgore have proposed adequate transportation solutions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If we could just move them off of their positions and get them to recognize the problem,&#8221; Anzilotti said.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have nothing against the chamber. All we are trying to do is give Russ a platform.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone seen the letter or list of signers? <\/p>\n<p>The story says 15 of the 20 former chamber chairmen signed the letter.  From the chamber\u2019s site, here is a list of 16 people identified as former chairmen:<\/p>\n<p>William Wrench<br \/>\nTodd A. Stottlemyer <br \/>\nTerrie G. Spiro <br \/>\nRobert Skunda <br \/>\nPhilip M. Reilly <br \/>\nJames P. Popino\t <br \/>\nDale Peck\t<br \/>\nClark Massie \t <br \/>\nGary Hevey\t<br \/>\nDavid Guernsey <br \/>\nL. Burwell Gunn, Jr. <br \/>\nJames W. Dyke, Jr.<br \/>\nNancy Eberhardt\t <br \/>\nMichael Carlin\t<br \/>\nWilliam F. Blocher\t <br \/>\nMichael G. Anzilotti\t <\/p>\n<p>Update:  Although Mike Shear quotes from the letter in his Post story today, the letter was apparently not distributed to the press and will not be, according to one former chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sign that Russ Potts may yet gain traction in the gubernatorial race, past chairmen of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce have sent a letter to the chamber asking it to invite Russ Potts to the planned Sept. 13 gubernatorial debate. Chamber President Bill Lecos says that won\u2019t happen. Leading the charge on&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/08\/18\/potts_heavyweig\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}