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By: Jim Nolan
Published: August 31, 2010 12:18 PM
Residents of Southwest Virginia are being invited via “robocall” to attend one of two Town Halls with Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli this Thursday.
The town halls will take place at 9 a.m. in Abingdon and later in the afternoon, at 1 p.m. in Rocky Mount.
While the events were organized by the Office of the Virginia Attorney General, Cuccinelli political director Noah Wall said the attorney general’s political action committee paid for the robocalls, which were placed to about 20,000 homes in the regions.
The regions are served by the Appalachian Power Company, the besieged, largely rural power company heavily criticized for jacking up its rates for electricity.
“The AG is going to be in Southwest Virginia next week to discuss the recent Appalachian Power rate change - and examine the effects that environmental regulations could have on power rates in the region,” reads a recent email from the Cuccinelli campaign.
The events also happen to be in two of the states most contested congressional districts: In Abingdon, the 9th District, home to incumbent Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher, who is being challenged by Virginia House of Delegates Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith of Salem. And in the 5th District, where freshman Rep. Tom Perriello is locked in a heated battle with the Republican challenger, state Sen. Robert Hurt.
Wall said Cuccinelli would spend the coming weeks stumping for conservative candidates in the state.
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