I will NOT release the Davis's numbers

I just got a phone call from Chap Petersen who requested that we not publish the home phone number for Tom Davis and Jeannemarie Devolites Davis. Despite the fact Jeannemarie mailed Chap's personal information to tens of thousands of people and subjected his small children to harassment from the public, Chap does not want to subject the Davis's to a similar fate.

UPDATE:  Here is the mailing.  See all those black boxes I put in? That would be Chaps home address, Chaps home phone number, and the names of Chaps wife and children. 
NONE OF WHICH WERE EDITED OUT BY JEANNEMARIE.

I'm still shocked looking at this.  And yes, Jeannemarie's arrow points directly to Sharon Petersen's name.

UPDATE #2-  Sources inside the Fairfax Sheriff's office tell me they are going to be doing regular surveillance tonight in the Petersen's neighborhood due to the suddenly heightened threat his family may be under.  There is no specific threat yet, but the bizarre phone calls are enough to have law enforcement's attention.

Comments

[Tom C]

Exactly. Chap is a class act.

[LAS]

Coming late to the game, but...

I don't even get WHY Jeannemarie would send out such a flyer. Seriously, what is the purpose? How is encouraging her voters to harrass the Petersen's supposed to help her get more voters to the polls on Tuesday, November 6th?

Otherwise, it's completely beyond the pale. Shame on them! And kudos to Chap for remaining a stand-up guy.

[Luna]

... that's really decent of Chap Petersen.

I still want to see a picture of the actual flyer though.

[martha]

I just made a small donation to Petersen's campaign earlier this week. My friend and I sponsor the YD club at a high school in central VA. I met Chap when he and 2 of the 3 other lt. gov.
candidates attended a forum at our high school.

Seems like to me his hard work and efforts canvassing up there will win out over the nastiness the other side has demonstrated.

Good luck,Chap!

Chap should win on this alone, although there are so many other good reasons to elect him.

Shes a horrible person, devoid of decency and honor. It's clear now why police endorsed Chap.

[Chris - Mason Conservative]

So then why then did the DCTimes and the largest teachers union in Fairfax endorse Jeannemarie?

And have all of you actually SEEN the mailer or are you just trusting Ben's word at how "disgusting" this is.

[Not Larry Sabato]

Chris, I just read your piece on this. Will Jeannemarie be mailing her home phone number out to everyone on her mailing list? If not, why not, since she mailed Chap's without his permission. Don't you understand the difference between something being available and something being broadcast to tens of thousands of people, including child sex offenders?

[Alice]

I am pleased, but not surprised that Chap did this.

[Smitty]

Chris has called Ben out, and properly so. This is nothing but bombast from NLS, as usual. Take all the polls you want, nobody cares about this. We care about issues. You're like a wannabe Drudge...all you need is flashing sirens and more "Developing" headlines. Boo for you, Ben.

Show us the mailer. Print it, blach out the number and names, then rescan it. 5 minutes. Let's see what all of this talk is about or is there a reason it is not being shown?

[Not Larry Sabato]

It's up 634.

[Joel Rutstein]

I hope someone can post an image of the mailer soon, blacking out Chap's personal information, of course. One look at this thing and Chap bashers, Ben bashers, and Jeannemarie defenders will have to admit that this is a big deal. I don't know how many of these were sent out, but I got one, and I'm quite sure that Jeannemarie's campaign knows I'd never vote for her; so, this was not targeted at possible Jeannemarie voters. Chap's personal information is circled in bright red ink with a bright red arrow. Jeannemarie put Chap's personal information in the hands of creeps who might call Chap's house and harass his family. These cowards might also be more likely to be too stupid and/or lazy to search for the information. Jeannemarie conveniently put it right in their slimy hands. The most damning evidence that this was no inadvertant disclosure of Chap's personal information is that if Jeannemarie really wanted to make the point that Chap's disclosure form was deficient, she would have shown the blank space where she says information should have been, not the top of the form containing Chap's personal information.

[LAS]

Okay, now I get it--sort of. But why didn't JeanneMarie black out the personal info herself? We don't need his telephone number, address, and names of family members to get the point of the negative mailer--Chap is a hypocrite and a lobbyist. Okie-dokie. Why not just say so without involving his family?

Did she think keeping that information in would make it more believable? I don't think it's working--because I don't believe a word of it.

[The Southern Belle]

okay doubters, now you've seen it? what do you think?

[Darrell]

Is there any way Davis can be held accountable for this on the floor of the State Senate?

Oh, by the way, here's her email: district34@sov.state.va.us

[LAS]

Smitty, do you know what the word "chutzpah? means? That's a Republican insisting his people care about "issues."

Dude, that's some nerve you got, and I don't mean the good kind.

The disclosure form is a public document and available to anyone. How is that despicable? You can get a copy of any legislator's form at any time. Maybe the form should be changed?

The record of her daughter's arrest is public information too but you don't see chap mailing that out to 30K people. hmmmmm - now there's a thought

It wasn't just any arrest for the daughter- it was the largest string of armed robberies in 34th Senate District history.

There was never a good reason to give up the high ground on this issue. Chap's response simply shows that he has both class and political smarts. This paints him as a sharp contrast to Ben.

[Joel Rutstein]

anon at 6:48, hy do you think even the most ardent Chap supporters and Jeannemarie bashers at this site, including the proprietor, have resisted searching out and posting Jeannemarie's personal information? We haven't even posted a link to where this information supposedly can be had so easily. I was SO tempted to call out the conservative blogger at virtucon daring him to prove his allegation that Jeannemarie's information was "right there" at the website of the Center for Public Integrity. He did link to the Center. I searched for "Jeannemarie Devolites Davis," and exactly zero matches came up. Perhaps I could have found her personal information by searching for Tom Davis but I didn't feel like scrolling through the more than 200 matches. If you do look at some of the matches, however, you'll see ample evidence of how lacking in integrity the Davises are, making it all that much more likely that Jeannemarie's disclosing of Chap's personal information was intentional. Chap has wisely and with great integrity himself asked us not to post Jeannemarie's personal information. We'll respect that. You, anon 6:48, however, and those who agree with you that this is no big deal, certainly don't have to follow our example or Chap's request. So, post up or shut up.

[Interested Observer]

NLS - let it go now. This will take on a life of its own and you can claim to have brought down JMDD. Don't retaliate, the press will love this one...

sure, it is public information, but it was pushed on 30,000 people - clearly there is an expectation that someone would use it, perhaps for harassment, since the piece is an attack ad...

Mail out the record of her duaghter's arrest. What does JMDD have to do with that? Are you saying parents should be prosecuted for their childeren's crimes? Good parent have kids that make mistakes, even big ones.

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