Talking point
“They [Democrats] want to be 11, I can be 12. Don’t try to out-petty me. . . . You will lose.”
— Virginia Republican spokesman Garren Shipley, when asked if he encouraged a backhoe operator to lay on the gas and drown out a Democratic news conference staged to diminish a GOP prebuttal to President Obama’s Richmond campaign rally a week ago. Nevertheless, Shipley denied involvement.
May 13, 2012 - 8:16 AM
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