From: Danville Register and Bee on September 6, 2010

With his dented, white pickup truck and giant blue campaign signs as a backdrop,Rep. Tom Perriello spoke to supporters at a rally in Danville on Monday afternoon about the need for more time inWashington to help the middle class.

Perriello welcomed Democrat Sen. Jim Webb to stump with him at the Community Market — Sen. Mark Warner recently campaigned with Perriello inCharlottesville — firing up the crowd of more than 175 people on jobs and economic issues in a city where the unemployment rate remains unchanged from July 2009.

From: The Newsplex on August 29, 2010

Democrats gathered at Claudius Crozet Park in Crozet Saturday for chicken, pork and a side of politics.It's the 22nd annual Albemarle County Democratic Barbecue. Hundreds of Democrats gathered to rally for U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello.

by Tom McLaughlin in The News & Record

It’s a little more than a week before Labor Day, the traditional kickoff of the fall campaign season, and the two major party candidates for Congress, incumbent Democrat Tom Perriello and Republican Robert Hurt, are on the air already with TV commercials. No rest for the weary, it seems, in politics and in war.

The optics of this race are plain enough: Perriello, doing his James Brown-routine as the hardest working man in politics, is running around the district making the case for investments in education, clean energy and infrastructure, and defending the better parts of the stimulus bill passed by Congress in response to the worst economic downturn in the U.S. since the Great Depression. A sitting member of Congress during the Big Slide but in no way culpable for it, Perriello has the daunting, but not impossible, task of selling the public on the need for Washington to do more to set this awful economy straight.

By The Roanoke Times on August 19, 2010

Del. Bob Marshall took a jab last week at Gov. Bob McDonnell for accepting Virginia's share of a federal aid package to help recession-battered states and localities.

Because the commonwealth's Republican congressmen voted against the money bill, along with just about every other Republican, Marshall argued, "To spend this money is to tacitly accept that Reps. Cantor, Forbes, Goodlatte, Wittman and Wolf voted against Virginia's better public interest and that [Democrats] cast the better vote for Virginians."

Yes. Yes, they did.

By Newsplex on August 18, 2010

A new Tom Perriello campaign ad is now hitting the airways in Charlottesville and Roanoke. However, unlike previous campaigns, this ad directly challenges his Republican opponent, State Senator Robert Hurt.