Data from UVa’s Geospatial & Statistical Data Center. Adjusted for inflation using Robert Sahr’s Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1665 to Estimated 2016. Well, I guess elections do cost a lot now, after all. The cost per vote has doubled since 1993.
Category Archives: Politics
RPV elects Ed Gillespie to chair.
Virginia Republicans have elected Ed Gillespie to be the new party chair. Huzzah! The RPV has once again named a leader with absolutely no ability to unify its deeply-divided members! 2007 is looking very bright.
Romney employed undocumented immigrants.
Massachusetts governor, presidential hopeful and outspoken opponent of illegal immigration Mitt Romney employed undocumented workers for eight years, paying them cash and having them work 11-hour days. Perhaps this will be the new trend, like stridently anti-gay Republican officials who turn out to like a little penis themselves.
For the record, I’ll be on “For the Record” again.
Set your TiVos: my episode of “For the Record” will be reairing on many PBS stations on Sunday morning at 11am.
Fairfax vs. the hungry.
Del. Kris Amundson on Fairfax County’s appalling decision to bar giving the homeless home-cooked meals.
Dems backpedaling on 9/11 panel promises.
Remember Democrats saying over and over that if elected they’d implement every one of the September 11th panel’s suggestions? Well, nevermind. They’ve decided not to do anything about he panel’s recommendation that Congress totally reorganize how it deals with oversight.
“You’re demonstrably, horribly wrong! About everything!”
Today’s Tom the Dancing Bug is brilliant. The topic: neoconservatives’ home lives.
It’s time to leave Iraq.
NYT: The Iraq Study Group will recommend a withdrawal from Iraq.
HB 1422: Mandating vocational classes.
Delegates Dave Nutter (R-Montgomery) and Bill Carrico (R-Grayson) are co-patroning HB 1422: Standard diploma; requirements to include one concentration in career and technical education. This is a bill that makes one tiny modification to §22.1-253.13:4D2: In establishing course and credit requirements for a high school diploma, the Board shall: […] Establish the requirements for a …
Bush and Webb’s testy exchange.
The Hill: President Bush is a dick to Senator-elect Webb, Webb fights the urge to deck him.