On Monday night, learn how Tom Perriello won.
On Monday, Left of Center’s monthly meeting is all about how Tom Perriello managed to unseat Virgil Goode:
Left of Center Jan. 5 Event: How Perriello Won
When: Monday, Jan. 5, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Where: Rapture, Downtown Mall
A Left of Center speaker panel will discuss how Virginia’s 5th District Congressman-Elect Tom Perriello pulled off one of [...]
Astronaut boots.
So I’m reading the Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report, and it’s really fascinating reading. The amount of detail NASA has come up with from the wreckage of the shuttle is just amazing. NASA truly has the best and the brightest working for them. I just finished reading about the survival suits that they wear for [...]
Del. Howell’s conflicting mobile phone ban.
Del. Algie Howell has introduced HB1659: Wireless telecommunications devices; prohibits use of while driving except in an emergency. The proposed addition to the state code is:
Except in an emergency, it shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or moped on the highways [...]
Del. Scott may get primaried.
Del. Ed Scott may be primaried by a flat-earther, Brian McNeill writes in the Daily Progress. For those not familiar with Del. Scott, check out his Richmond Sunlight page. This business is a big part of why I feel so good about Democrats’ odds of taking the House of Delegates come November. It’s the like [...]
Sen. Obenshain to introduce anti-noose legislation.
Sen. Mark Obenshain intends to introduce legislation making the display of a noose a felony, when it’s done to intimidate, which could bring up to five years in prison. I’m an opponent of these sorts of laws. I think they’re ridiculous. A judge is fully capable of determining whether an act is designed to intimidate, [...]
Zefrank’s “from52to48withlove.”
From 52 to 48 with love (and vice versa)—messages of national unity between Democrats and Republicans after a bruising election. (Via MeFi)
1B pairs of glasses for the global poor.
Professor Josh Silver invented fluid-based glasses that can have their prescription adjusted by the wearer, and 30,000 pairs have already been provided in 15 of the world’s poorest nations. But he’s thinking much bigger—Silver wants his brilliant invention on the heads of one billion people by 2020. This would fundamentally change the lives of millions [...]
Far Side reenacted.
ZOMG—Far Sides reenacted as photographs. I’m so jealous that I didn’t think of this.
Tim Craig on the governor’s race.
Tim Craig and I are on the same page in the matter of the race for the Democratic nomination for governor:
In a two-way race against McAuliffe or Deeds, Moran very well might have been unstoppable. [...] But then McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, burst onto the Virginia political scene in [...]
Is Boucher a harbinger of an urban/rural split?
With Rep. Rick Boucher’s endorsement of Creigh Deeds for governor today, I wonder if we’re seeing the beginnings of a major rural/urban split in the support of Democratic candidates?
Some random guy running for LG.
Apparently there’s a third (potential) Democratic candidate for LG—Rich Savage.
Who? you ask. Good question.
Jeff Schapiro explains that Savage is 46 years old, a father of two, a California native, a campaign consultant and he’s lived in Virginia for fifteen years. Past clients include Viola Baskerville and, interestingly, Dickie Cranwell. I guess he’s gotten together enough [...]
Cranwell won’t run for LG.
Dickie Cranwell won’t seek the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor after all, Michael Sluss writes in the Roanoke Times today. Jody Wagner and Jon Bowerbank are both already in the race. I haven’t understand what slice of the Democratic electorate that Cranwell was hoping to get—that is, what his path to victory would be. Maybe [...]
Perriello wins!
It’s official—Tom Perrillo has won the recount. Rep. Virgil Goode is soon to be, simply, Mr. Virgil Goode, a bigoted old man who can spend his remaining years complaining about Mexican flags and the evils of Islam to his morning group at Hardee’s.
The Fifth District is Democratic. The majority of Virginia’s congressional delegation is now [...]
Goode floundering before foundering.
Quoth Tom Perriello on December 11th:
Our brave troops serving overseas absolutely deserve to have their voices heard and their votes counted in this election and all elections as they fight for our Democracy. That is why I strongly believe that those military ballots in question that arrived late and were held aside should be included [...]
A tweetable legislature.
John Athayde points out Tweet Congress, which seems like something I should do on Richmond Sunlight. Which members of the General Assembly have Twitter feeds?
Apportioning electoral votes via the buddy system.
Virginia Republicans have never been keen on the notion of splitting the state’s electoral votes by congressional district, because that would appear to be simply giving away just under half of our votes to Democrats. Now that Virginia is officially a Democratic state, this is a suggestion that Republicans may want to consider more seriously. [...]
Fannie Mae renting out foreclosed homes.
I’m happy to see the news that Fannie Mae will be allowing renters to continue to rent homes that have been foreclosed on. But I think it’ll be better if this is expanded to include renting back owner-occupied homes, too. It seems to me that this is just smart business—I imagine most lenders would be [...]
House Republicans agree to halt secret votes.
House Republicans in the General Assembly have assented to end their practice of holding secret subcommittee votes to kill bills, which they’ve used to kill hundreds (perhaps thousands) of bills in the past few years. Nobody with two brain cells to rub together thought it was a good idea. This practice that would have been [...]
Moran gives up his seat; the fight for upstate money is on.
I’ve been chewing over Del. Brian Moran’s resignation of his seat today, wondering a) why, b) why now, and c) what effect that it will have on the race. I think the simplest explanation is probably the right one.
The “why now” is at the center of it, I think. In a statement, Moran told constituents [...]
The coming Wikipedia election.
As 2005 and 2006 were the years that blogs were at their peak influence in elections, I expect that Wikipedia will be at its peak influence in Virginia’s 2009 election.
Virginia’s constant elections put us in an unusual position of innovation. We’re always in the midst of an election cycle, so we’re in a position to [...]
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