Democrat David Poisson has launched his campaign website in his race against Delegate Dick Black, the dangerous anti-science, anti-woman, anti-minority, anti-logic Loudoun ideologue. That means that four out of four races targeted by Virginia Family Values are now competitive at the general election stage. Now we just need some Republicans to challenge these guys at …
Category Archives: Virginia Politics
Raising Kaine.
A grassroots pro-Tim Kaine, anti-Jerry Kilgore website has been set up, Raising Kaine. It’s just launched, so it’s a bit rough ’round the edges, but I think it could be useful for the coming governor’s election. Incidentially, the fellows who set it up are totally disconnected from Lt. Governor Kaine — it’s not an astroturf …
Judge slaps down anti-voting Republican.
Virginia is one of seven states in the union that do not believe that ex-criminals can ever “pay their debt to society.” Anybody convicted of a felony is barred from voting, for life, no matter the felony, no matter the punishment. The only recourse is to personally petition the governor for the restoration of voting …
Accepted to Sorensen.
I just got the call — I’ve been accepted as a fellow at UVa’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership’s Political Leaders Program. Huzzah! This, in a roundabout way, is the fifth time that I’ve applied to UVa. I finally got in.
Strange bedfellows.
Here in Virginia, Del. Jackie Stump wants the Virginia big-eared bat to be named the official bat of Virginia, reports the Hampton Roads Daily Press. It’s one of those stupid bills that harms nobody, so whatever. Del. Dave Albo, however, is opposed to it — there’s just too many Official State Whatevers for his taste. …
Perhaps they should stick with French.
It was a month ago that The Hampton Roads Daily Press declared Virginia Republican candidate for governor Jerry Kilgore to be “a little, well, French.” I figured that it was a mere euphemism for the man’s daintiness. I was wrong. It turns out that Kilgore fancies himself a bit of a francophone. Look no further …
Kilgore takes a day job.
Pity Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore. First he resigns from office to run for governor, because he’s just not raising enough money, and now comes the news that he’s had to take a day job. That’s rough. I’ll bet he can move in with his mom if things slide any more. We’ve all been there. …
On metaphors, mixed.
From a rightly-defensive press release issued by the Kilgore campaign yesterday: Is the right hand speaking to the left hand? The Kilgore campaign has got to tighten up their bootstraps and keep a lid on their powder — going around the bush to fight the fire is keeping them from getting their ducks in a …
Planned Parenthood lobbying day.
I got this announcement from Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge, and told ’em I’d run it here: The Virginia General Assembly is in session again and the anti-choice bills are piling up, including measures limiting access to Emergency Contraception and basic birth control. ACTION: We need you and every Pro-Choice supporter you know to …
Kilgore to resign, due to money shortage.
Jerry Kilgore will become the third consecutive Republican attorney general in Virginia to step down from his job in order to run for governor, Bob Lewis writes for the AP. He’s doing so at a remarkably early point, though — February 1, nearly a year before the end of the term to which he was …
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