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Vivian Paige asks for citizens to write their delegates to support repealing the Payday Loan Act of 2002, which exempted payday lenders from usury laws. The House Commerce and Labor Committee will be taking a vote on this on December 5. I’ll be curious to see what AG Bob McDonnell tries to do with this …
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The state’s best online political resource just got better. The Virginia Public Access Project has three great new features making it possible to see what stocks are owned by candidates and examine their entire economic interest statements. Wonderful.
Does anybody have a feeling as to who will head up the Republican Party of Virginia now that Kate Obenshain Griffin is stepping down? Any ideas as to who should lead the party, who shouldn’t, or at least an ideological direction they’ll go in? I forecast they’ll elect somebody even farther to the right than …
The Republican Party of Virginia sent out this e-mail this evening: From: RPV Chairman Kate Obenshain Griffin Subject: Message from RPV Chairman Kate Obenshain Griffin Date: November 13, 2006 6:00pm November 13, 2006 Dear Fellow Republicans: I write today to inform you that I will resign the position of Chairman effective at the close of …
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“We worked well with Democrats when we were in the majority — and I expect that that will continue in serving in the minority.” –Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-06) in the AFP
Supporters of Sen. Brandon Bell’s bill to ban smoking in workplaces will be holding rallies around the state in the next few days: Richmond, Newport News, Fredericksburg, Arlington, Charlottesville and Roanoke. This bill was killed in subcommittee on an unrecorded vote during this year’s session the day after we had a lively and interesting discussion …
In today’s Daily Progress, Bob Gibson wraps up Allen’s career. My favorite bit: “If he was a uniting figure, however, it was among Republicans. He never appealed much to Democrats. Anyone who intentionally mispronounces the name of the Democratic Party by calling it the Democrat Party isn’t even trying.” Damned straight. I wonder if Sen. …
Since the election has gone by I just went through and did a little cleanup on the Virginia Political Blogs aggregator. I removed any blog that existed solely to cover the election (campaign blogs and their independent counterparts), any blog that has been end of lifed (where its creator has said “I’m done”) or any …
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Claire Guthrie Gastanaga: Allen lost because of the Marshall/Newman amendment. I’d speculated that might be so, but didn’t dare say anything because I figured people would think I’m nuts. Claire, on the other hand, has the numbers to back it up.
Chad Dotson is taking a break from blogging, possibly for good. Seems to me all the reasonable Virginia political bloggers are disappearing. I expect will end up with a supermajority of people who don’t know how to disagree without being disagreeable. That won’t be fun.