University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato friend and six-term Congressman Virgil Goode narrowly lost his 5th District Congressional seat to upstart Democrat Tom Perriello last fall. And, according to Politico.com, Sabato, in the upcoming budget year lost the $1.4 million per year that Congress had been appropriating in earmarks to fund an educational program out of Sabato Center for Politics.

According to Politico, this year Perriello turned away the center’s application for $1 million, sending Sabato acolytes searching for alternative funding.

Sabato, who predicted Goode would repeat int he 5th, told Politico he doesn’t know why he lost his funding and says he’s never let a relationship get in the way of calling races them as he sees them.

Perriello spokeswoman Jessica Barba told Politico that the rejection did not emanate from Sabato’s doubts about Perriello.

She told the online pub: “Congressman Perriello certainly respects and supports the work of the Center for Politics and the [center’s] Youth Leadership Initiative, but it did not meet his criteria for appropriations requests, which were focused on clean energy investments, infrastructure and job-creation projects.”

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