In Congress, there are perceived threats, proposed threats, and the occasional incident or two that require further investigation. And while the FBI looks into whether a recent wrong address/severed propane line incident qualifies as a literal threat, a couple recent links get at the metaphorical target on Democratic Congressman Tom Perriello’s Fifth District chair.
While reporting on the race to unseat Perriello, New Yorker columnist and blogger George Packer tucked into a bit of frozen yogurt with Laurence Verga, one of the seven GOP candidates eager to reclaim the Fifth District seat. Packer writes that several members of the Tea Party movement joined Verga at lunch, and "denounced the Republican establishment candidate, a state legislator named Robert Hurt, who had once voted for a budget that included a tax increase." That vote, writes Packer, "doomed his candidacy in the eyes of the Tea Party and has become a focus of Verga’s primary campaign."
And a recent e-mail from Anna Scholl, finance director for Perriello for Congress, names another figure who has an eye on the Fifth District—perhaps while the other eye winks.
Laurence Verga, a candidate for the Fifth District GOP nomination to run against Perriello, before he delivered a symbolic gift to Perriello’s office.
