Senator Warner held a series of town hall meetings, toured small businesses and threw the opening pitch at a collegiate league baseball game during a weekend of travel across southside Virginia.

In Danville,  Senator met with community and business leaders gathered at Averett University, and discussed job creation, regulatory reform, and fiscal discipline in Washington:

“Anyone that tells you we can fix this problem with a Democrats-only or Republicans-only solution is not telling the truth,” the Senator told the Danville Register and Bee.

In Martinsville, he toured Solid Stone Fabrics, a growing small  business in Martinsville that manufactures stretch fabrics and recently created the uniforms for the French and Australian men’s Olympic gymnastic teams.  The Senator was wowed by the company’s quick turn-around time and its environmentally friendly and high-tech manufacturing process. The Senator called Solid Stone a “poster child” for how to bring back manufacturing in areas of Virginia where textile factories have shut their doors.

The Senator also squeezed in the local Martinsville Mustangs baseball game. He threw out the first pitch, which was (pretty much) a strike, and mingled with the crowd before heading up to the radio booth to check in with listeners of ESPN Southside.

On Saturday, the Senator hosted Community Coffee events in Rocky Mount and Bedford. At each event, he delivered a quick update from Washington, and then answered questions from the sometimes “lively” audiences. Senator Warner urged both audiences to “get out of their partisan foxholes.”

“If all you do is watch MSNBC, then watch Fox News sometimes,” Senator Warner said. “If all you do is watch Fox News, you gotta watch MSNBC. No one group in our country has a monopoly on truth or patriotism.”