Republican businessman to take on Rep. Bobby Scott

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By Kate Wiltrout
The Virginian-Pilot
© January 17, 2012

Dean Longo, a Newport News businessman, announced Monday that he's running for Congress in Virginia's 3rd district, seeking the seat held by U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott.

The district stretches from Richmond to South Hampton Roads.

Longo, a Republican, is a retired Air Force officer. He has twice served as chairman of the Newport News Human Rights Commission.

Longo served in the Air Force from 1984 to 2004. He started a project management consulting firm in Yorktown called Raven 3 Group.

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the bottom line

Submitted by r.j. on Tue, 01/17/2012 at 5:36 pm.

on this subject,

Bobby Scott will be re-elected.

BWAAAHAHAHAHA!!!

Submitted by shaw_2112 on Tue, 01/17/2012 at 3:57 pm.

He' got about a snowflakes chance in heII...

If it's all about race

Submitted by AC1201 on Tue, 01/17/2012 at 1:49 pm.

How did we elect a black lieutenant governor-become governor and a black president? If those two got every single black vote, we are talking 12.2% nationally and 19% in Virginia. That means at least a couple of whites voted across racial lines.

True of at-large elections

Submitted by sully428 on Tue, 01/17/2012 at 5:02 pm.

But not majority-minority districts. Even the CBC's own sponsored web site cites racial redistricting as a necessary prescription under the 82' voting rights act for under-representation in Congress [baic.house.gov]. I'll concede that their numbers have increased under that formula. And as other posters on here pointed out, Repubs helped them do it, to protect their own districts. But for the country's welfare as a whole, I argue for deracialization everywhere along contiguous boundaries. The candidate with the right message for that community will get elected, but right now from district to district, our reps are so divergent on views due to redistricting, they can barely stand to work together from the same state.

Gerrymandering

Submitted by David Campbell on Tue, 01/17/2012 at 12:26 pm.

During the last two redistricting in Virginia, Republicans methodically sliced black Democratic voters out of adjacent districts and put them into Scott's district. That is how Randy Forbes became a lifetime member of Congress.

If you don't like gerrymandering, there is a solution: nonpartisan redistricting. Gov. McDonnell campaigned in favor of it. Senate Democrats proposed and House Republicans killed it each of the past four years.