From today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch: Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore announced a team of veteran Republican political strategists yesterday as he took a step closer to his actual run for governor. […] Scott Howell, president of Dallas-based Scott Howell & Co., will be the media strategist. His most recent winning clients include Sen.-elect John Thune of …
Category Archives: Virginia Politics
It’s no wonder he got whupped.
2002 state senate candidate and ostensible Democrat Steve Sisson writes: Warner’s fan club membership is solely comprised of younger, high-tech liberal members of the Democrat Party of Virginia, insulated in the urban-congested areas of the state, such as Arlington, Alexandria, Charlottesville and Richmond. Their counterparts, younger conservative Republicans, have for years said the more liberal …
From the department of little-known facts about the natural world.
“Homosexuals can get married. They just have to marry someone of the opposite sex. It’s a requirement of nature.” —Del. Bob Marshall, Potomac News My God, won’t somebody think of the penguins?
Charlottesville Democratic committee reorganization.
Once every couple of years, we Charlottesville Democrats redefine who we are. The core of the party is the 100 people who serve on the Central Committee. These are the people who run the show. If you are a Charlottesville Democrat and you want to run the show — and I encourage you to want …
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Charlottesville, Democratic capital of Virginia.
From Bloomberg: “The urban sprawl isn’t just inhabited by golf club-wielding stockbrokers. It’s the bleeding over of Charlottesville.” — Eric von Geilker, a housing contractor who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, talking about Albemarle County’s vote for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, after voting for Republicans since at least the 1950s. The county surrounds Charlottesville, which …
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Kilgore’s speaking style.
In Thursday’s Washington Post, reporter Michael Shear compared the speaking styles of Lt. Governor Tim Kaine (D) and Attorney General Jerry Kilgore (R), the two men who will face off in the ’05 Virginia governor’s race. (Kilgore, Kaine Give Previews of Very Different Styles“) Shear looks at the speeches given by each of them to …
The Hate-Straight Alliance.
From today’s Harrisonburg (VA) Daily News Record (“Gay And Straight Alliance Supporters Speak Out At Meeting“) About 50 people demonstrated their support for the newly formed Gay and Straight Alliance at Harrisonburg High School on Tuesday. The supporters spoke during the public comment session of the first School Board meeting since John Elledge, a Harrisonburg …
Goodlatte as Secretary of Agriculture?
Ann Veneman resigned as Secretary of Agriculture. Bush has to appoint a replacement. Lacking any obvious executive-level people to appoint, he’ll likely turn to known leaders. Some have already been named, but overlooked is Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-06) of Virginia. He is, after all, the chair of the House Committee on Agriculture. Might Virginia have …
New Attorney General Candidate
In today’s Washington Times (“Maryland GOP hopes to bring Bush win home”), there’s a blurb about a new entrant into the Virginia Attorney General race: Longtime Prince William County Attorney Sharon E. Pandak plans to seek her party’s nomination for Virginia attorney general next year in the June primary election. Mrs. Pandak, who recently resigned …
Democrats ceding the attorney general’s race?
Here’s the fundraising data from the attorney general’s race, current as of June 30, which was the last reporting date. Republicans Del. Bob McDonnell: $801,871 Steve Baril: $784,690 Democrats Sen. Creigh Deeds: $60,784 Sen. John Edwards: $5,355 What the hell? Have we, as a party, made some sort of a decision to cede this seat? …
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