House facing 15 bill/delegate limitation.
Under new rules of the House of Delegates, effect come January’s session, they’ve limited their members to introducing 15 bills per person, 10 pre-filed and 5 after the session begins. Assuming that delegates remain within their self-enforced rules, compare last year’s 2,234 bills to a maximum of 1,500 this time around. That’s a 33% drop [...]
MZM investigation expanding.
Reporter Seth Hettena points out that former MZM head Mitchell Wade is singing like a bird. His lawyers have fined a sentencing memo that argues he shouldn’t receive any prison time, because Wade is cooperating in an ongoing, far-reaching corruption investigation into five unnamed members of Congress, a list that unquestionably includes Rep. Virgil Goode. [...]
Tom Perriello needs your help for the recount.
Tom Perriello’s campaign needs money for their recount—he needs attorneys, staff to handle the process, and he’s got to keep his office running and core staff paid. After all, he’s only Congressman-elect Perriello at this point. I just sent $25—not much, but it’s what I can do. I hope other Perriello supporters will continue doing [...]
Perriello wins; Goode seeks a recount.
Tom Perriello has been certified as the winner in the 5th CD election, with a lead of 745 votes. Rep. Virgil Goode is challenging the outcome, and understandably enough. It’s being called a “recount,” but no actual recounting takes place. It’s more of a re-canvas, making sure that the total number of votes on each [...]
Shaun Kenney takes my Jeff Frederick bet.
The bet is on. I’ll give $100 to the RPV if Jeff Frederick keeps his word, while Shaun Kenney will give $100 to the DPVA if Frederick turns out to have lied. The litmus test is if Frederick announces that he’s running for reelection. Shaun says that the “winner gets bragging privileges for at least [...]
Raising Kaine concludes their four-year run.
Lowell, Josh and company are shutting down Raising Kaine, and good for them. I say that because of why they stopped: they’re done. It can be tough to recognize that you’re doing something just because you’ve been doing it.
Just this past summer, some friends and I agreed to shut down our website on its 10th [...]
Who will bet against me on Jeff Frederick’s reelection promise?
I’ll put up $100 that says that Jeff Frederick will bail on his promise not to seek reelection. If I lose, I give $100 to the RPV. If I win, the other party will give $100 to the DPVA. But, of course, somebody has to bet against me.
Surely somebody out there thinks that Frederick isn’t [...]
Obama wins the loamy soil vote.
The counties in the southeast that voted for Obama are the counties with the most nutritious soils. Consequently, they’re where cotton was once grown and, also consequently, they’re where the bulk of the region’s slaves were held. I love these interdisciplinary mash-ups. (Via Kottke)
The coming mammoth.
All that stands between the world and a living, breathing wooly mammoth is $10M. I’m in for $20.
Deeds watches the McAuliffe-Moran battle begin.
Tim Craig writes that the Moran and McAuliffe camps are already at each other’s throats, with my punchy friend Jesse Ferguson firing the opening salvo by releasing a collection of some of the most negative reactions to McAuliffe’s candidacy from the media. Craig reports that Creigh Deeds “took a softer approach, welcoming McAuliffe into the [...]
How the Fifth was won and where it got us.
Lloyd Snook explains the years of ground work that were necessary for Tom Perriello to win here in the Fifth District.
The calls for Jeff Frederick’s ouster have begun.
This must be what it would like to be psychic; events unfolding with a mundane predictability, life losing any element of spontaneity.
All of Virginia politics is a-twitter with former RPV executive director J. Kenneth Klinge’s call for Jeff Frederick’s resignation. Klinge argues, in a nutshell, that Frederick has failed the very standards to which he [...]
Who?
Republican Dave Foster has joined the AG’s race. He says his top priority is education. Quick, somebody explain to him what the AG’s job is.
McAuliffe: “It’s not whether I win or not.”
Terry McAuliffe sums up the trouble with his candidacy for governor:
McAuliffe has not yet decided if he will run, saying he is first visiting all parts of Virginia and listening to residents before making a decision in January.
“It’s not whether I could win or not,” McAuliffe said. “For me, it’s about whether I could get [...]
Dave Albo vs. Wikipedia.
Dave Albo keeps editing his Wikipedia entry in total violation of Wikipedia’s standards, leading to ongoing edit wars between him (who keeps inserting advocacy language using text reproduced verbatim from his website) and neutral editors (who are trying to take out the self-promotion). The result is the worst Wikipedia entry for any member of the [...]
A British tale of a conservative fall and rise.
A parallel to Republicans’ current situation can be found in England. The logical conclusion would be that if Republicans want to regain power, they’ll have to support the sorts of things that the great majority of the country support—for starters, stop fussing about gays and embody the “conservative” in “conservation.”
An observation on miniaturization.
As I watched mobile phones become tinier from 1996-2006, I wondered what the endpoint would be. Some were so comically small as to be useless to anybody over the age of 40. Would we eventually be depositing them directly into our ears?, we wondered. And then along came the iPhone. It’s on the larger end [...]
Media and bloggers fall for clever hoaxer.
The McCain advisor who Fox News relied on for their claim that Sarah Palin thought that Africa was a country is, in fact, a serial hoaxer. Supposed McCain policy advisor “Martin Eisenstadt” is an invention of Eitan Gorlin. He cleverly mixes barely-plausible claims with true statements, so the media and bloggers (including yours truly) take [...]
The Supreme Court is taking a religion case.
Here’s what’s shaping up to be a mighty interesting SCOTUS ruling: A kooky religion has been barred from putting a monument in a public park where a Ten Commandments monument already stands, and they’ve sued for equal time. The 10th Circuit already ruled in the Utah group’s favor, but the SCOTUS has granted an appeal [...]
Pruning real estate blogs from Charlottesville Blogs.
A note for Charlottesville readers. Due to popular demand, and my own annoyance, I’m removing some of the horrible real estate blogs from Charlottesville Blogs. Most of them are just ads, and totally dishonest ads, at that. (All of your listings are “gems”? Really?) They’re of no possible interest to anybody who lives in Charlottesville. [...]
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