Bacon’s Rebellion launches editorial guidelines for their blog, a result of the August Sorensen Institute Summit on Blogging and Democracy in the Commonwealth.
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Ed “No Relation” Kilgore explains why Jerry Kilgore’s desperate last-minute anti-immigrant strategy isn’t just going to backfire for his campaign, but seriously harm Virginia Republicans for years to come.
http://www.newdonkey.com/2005/11/jerrys-last-gasp-immigrant-bashing.html
Bush appearance smacks of desperation.
Today’s news that President Bush will be campaigning on behalf of Jerry Kilgore after all, at a Monday night event, is a pretty serious reversal of strategy for the Kilgore campaign. The Kilgore campaign pointedly snubbed Bush just a week ago, a week and a half after Karl Rove was yanked from a Kilgore fundraiser. …
PROTECT attacks Dave Albo.
The National Association to Protect Children (PROTECT) has launched an all-out assault on Republican Delegate Dave Albo. They make quite clear that Del. Albo has worked hard to decrease the penalties for child rape. It’s got to really piss off Albo to have one of the nation’s leading organizations in the fight to protect children …
Post: Bush to campaign for Kilgore. Ha! That’s great! Chalk up another percent or two for Kaine.
Rasmussen: Kaine 3% ahead.
Supplementing the new Mason-Dixon, which shows Kaine 1% ahead, we also have today’s Rasmussen, which shows Kaine 3% ahead. They had Kaine at 2% ahead last week. With a ±3% MoE, they’re still statistically tied. But, again, this is a part of a trend described by all of the recent polls, so it’s likely that …
SBE fines Kaine campaign $100 for not labelling a mailing in a sufficiently conspicuous fashion.
Hummer dealers can’t sell their stock. Nobody wants the damned things.
McDonnell further entangled in the DeLay/Abramoff web.
When we left our intrepid candidate, Republican Bob McDonnell, he was in a lot of trouble. The State Board of Elections had asked the Democratic attorney general of Richmond to investigate his mysterious $1M in income, Virginia editorial boards lambasted him in lockstep, and his former campaign manager had been implicated in the DeLay/Abramoff money …
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Republican memo: Christians are “wackos.”
DeLay aide and Abramoff business partner, Michael Scanlon, on how Republicans pass bills in D.C.: “The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees,” Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. “Simply put, …
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