Carrie Wigal

Due to some technical challenges I’ve been having with this blog site, I have relocated my current commentary to http://carriewigal.blogspot.com/. While I hope to get the kinks worked out on this site, I encourage you to visit me over at my other blog and join in the conversation there. See you there!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2009 Citizens all across Fluvanna County will make their way to the Downtown Mall at 3:00PM on April 15, 2009 to join the Charlottesville Tax Day Tea Party. Working in conjunction with a national grassroots effort promoted by Glenn Beck’s The 912 Project, Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions, and other conservative [...]

Do you watch Glenn Beck or listen to him on the radio? I first heard of him when Huckabee was being interviewed on his show over a year ago during the presidential primary season. The next time I saw/heard him was on a Youtube clip of an episode where he had interviewed Sarah Palin on [...]

What would Thomas Paine say about the state of affairs in America today? Who is Thomas Paine, you ask? Don’t worry, I wasn’t too clear on what his accomplishments were except that he was a founding father and made some famous quotes. But today I learned a little bit more about the man and his [...]

I received the following email from RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick earlier this week: Dear Republican Friend, Less than one year ago, thousands of our party’s activists and volunteers attended the 2008 State Republican Convention in Richmond. It was at this gathering that I was overwhelmingly elected chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV). At [...]

Here is an abbreviated version of the “Notice of Intent to Remove Jeff Frederick” referenced in the AP announcement dated March 12, 2009 issued by the State Central Committee of RPV: Notice of Intent to Remove Jeff Frederick as State Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia 1. Failure to transmit, in a timely manner, [...]

I sent the following email tonight to members of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party concerning the Attempted Removal of RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick. Dear Republican Party Leader, My name is Carrie Wigal. My husband and I are delegates for Fluvanna County (5th District) to this year’s GOP State Convention, and we were [...]

March 4, 2009 – Equipped with petitions and clipboards, Fluvanna citizens are canvassing the County to collect 1800 signatures ahead of a March 18 Board of Supervisors public hearing. At the hearing, supervisors are expected to approve creation of a James River joint water authority with Louisa County. The petition asks that the following question [...]

I personally spoke to John Brownlee, candidate for the Republican Nomination for Virginia Attorney General, last month at a mixer held in Fluvanna County. Just to be fair, I pledged myself as a Ken Cuccinelli delegate early on in the race before there were any contenders. But I heard there were two more running who [...]

It looks like it’s time for me to get back into the fray here concerning local, state and federal politics. There is just too much at stake to stay quiet and passive any longer. If you are pleased as punch at the way the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Political Machine is continuing to steer our country into a [...]