Open source, procurement, and gov tech.
It looks like Sen. Creigh Deeds did the right thing in skipping the Shad Planking, or so I gather from Anita Kumar’s article in today’s Post. Campaigning at the Shad Planking is like campaigning on blogs—the audience already has their minds made up, so in a tight race, any time or money spent is time …
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Public Policy Polling has a new poll in the statewide primaries. (FWIW, don’t recognize this outfit’s name.) They’ve got Brian Moran at 22%, Terry McAuliffe at 18%, and Sen. Creigh Deeds at 15%, all in a 3.6% MoE. The interesting bits are that McAuliffe maintains a huge level of unfavorable ratings (29% to Moran’s 15% …
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Bob Lewis wrote about Sen. Creigh Deeds’ position in the governor’s race on Saturday, and for folks who support Creigh’s candidacy, there are a couple of points to like. (Sure, it’s confirmation bias, but that’s political blogging for you.) He kept his name in the news during the legislative session much more effectively than his …
I’ve been researching a blog entry for a few weeks, but I see that Anita Kumar went and did me one better, turning out an article on the topic in today’s Washington Post. What’s up with candidates for governor “working” for law firms? Both Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds work for law firms, although it’s …
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It’s symbolic that Sen. Creigh Deeds has opened his campaign headquarters in Charlottesville. While Terry McAuliffe has his HQ in McLean (the city census-designated place whose name I can never manage to pronounce) and Brian Moran has set up in Alexandria, Creigh has chosen to locate his campaign headquarters considerably farther south. Each campaign had …
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Missed the JJ Dinner last week Capital Correspondents Association dinner on Wednesday? Not trusting the neutrality of the descriptions thus far? Style Weekly videotaped the speeches so that you can judge for yourself. 02/16 Update: I’m a moron.
See, now this is why I like Creigh Deeds. From Hank Bostwick’s interview with Sen. Creigh Deeds at the Star City Harbinger: SCH: Do you see a growing trend toward regional and local production of both energy and food? DEEDS: Absolutely . . . one of the most important recent works of nonfiction is The …
Johnny Camacho recaps Bob Gibson’s hour-long interview with the Democratic gubernatorial candidates on WVTF, the NPR carrier for the western half of the state. Or, rather, Creigh Deeds, the only guy who showed up. Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran phoned it in, calling in during the latter minutes of the show. McAuliffe’s comment about drinking …
Tim Craig and I are on the same page in the matter of the race for the Democratic nomination for governor: In a two-way race against McAuliffe or Deeds, Moran very well might have been unstoppable. […] But then McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, burst onto the Virginia political scene in …
With Rep. Rick Boucher’s endorsement of Creigh Deeds for governor today, I wonder if we’re seeing the beginnings of a major rural/urban split in the support of Democratic candidates?