Call me closed-minded, but I oppose Del. Vince Callahan’s bill creating a Virginia Pubic Building Authority.
Category Archives: Virginia Politics
August 2005 flashback.
Remember when Jerry Kilgore claimed that Virginia gangs were working with Al-Qaeda? That was awesome. I love recalling these things a year or two later, once the partisan reality distortion field has disappeared, so the insanity of the matter can wash over me anew.
Siddarth’s #1, Siddarth’s #1.
Salon’s man of the year: Shekar Ramanuja Siddarth.
662 commendations.
Out of curiosity, I just did the math: 16% of all bills in last year’s regular General Assembly session were commending somebody or something. That’s actually more bills than Congress passed naming buildings after people in the past two years, though 25% of all of the 109th Congress’ output, as a percentage of bills passed, …
I hope Sen. Deeds was one of them.
Johnny Camacho: Only three people showed up at the Bath County Democratic Party’s meeting Monday night. Ouch. 2:40pm Update: Check out Johnny’s account of the day he spent campaigning with Sen. Deeds. It’s well-written, funny, and interesting. Campaigning on that level sure sounds exhausting.
Two bits of C’ville news.
I’ve had a lot to write about lately on one of my other blogs, cvillenews.com, and some of y’all might be interested in two of those stories. The first is that some Christianists are all in a lather that a pagan flier was sent home with school kids…but it was only sent home because Jerry …
Allen’s tight end.
Sen. George Allen on his defeat: “Football…fumble, offsides violation…miscalled play…first quarter…second quarter…quarterback or coach…the team…” It’s this sort of pap that helped lose him the race. He’s incapable of speaking like a normal human being. Yes, your father was a coach of a team a bajillion years ago. We know. For the love of all …
“For the Record” video.
WHTJ was kind enough to provide me with a DVD of my September appearance on “For the Record”, their nationally-syndicated political discussion show. Better still, they cheerfully agreed to let me share the video here. Since the reviews weren’t too bad, why not? I find this unbearable to watch. My frequent blinking, the fact that …
Historical cost per vote in Virginia gubernatorial elections, 1965-2005.
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.
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.