Last week, Glenn Beck traveled to Washington to sell books, gold, and his own unique take on religion in America. Joining him were far-right luminaries including Sarah Palin, John Hagee, and my opponent, the founder and chair of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, J. Randy Forbes.
My campaign manager had some words to say on the Beck-Forbes "Divine Destiny" event in a recent email to our supporters:
Do you think Congress should take action to turn our economy around, end our involvement in needless wars, and shift us to a clean, renewable energy future? Randy Forbes doesn’t.
Last Friday, Glenn Beck held a "revival style" event at the Kennedy Center the night before his rally on the National Mall. Randy Forbes introduced Beck to the crowd and said, "answers for our country’s problems don’t have to come from Congress, they come from the hand of God." Now, if individuals wish to pray for the good of our nation, we would support that, but our Congressman really should have at least one or two ideas about how he could be working to bring jobs and economic prosperity here to Southside Virginia...
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