Power to the people?
Story by Chris Graham
Republican Party gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore wants to give Virginia voters the final say-so when it comes to tax increases.
“Taxation is the most basic relationship between a people and its government. I trust the people to make decisions on whether they want to pay more in taxes or less in taxes,” Kilgore said during a televised debate with Democratic Party rival Tim Kaine earlier this month. Read more
Pro-life votes in the ’05 election: Is Kilgore risking their support with run to the center?
Story by Chris Graham
Republican Party gubernatorial nominee Jerry Kilgore has been relentless in recent weeks in his attacks on Democratic Party rival Tim Kaine on one hot-button social issue, the death penalty.
Look for Kaine to fight back at Kilgore by highlighting another hot-button social issue – abortion – in the 2005 campaign’s final days. Read more
The pros and cons of daylight saving
The Top Story by Chris Graham
The extension of daylight-saving time in 2007 will save 300,000 barrels of oil annually.
So say supporters of the decision by Congress earlier this year to add a month to the clock-altering move. Read more
Catholicism and the death penalty
Story by Chris Graham
The death penalty has become the central issue in the 2005 Virginia governor’s race – and by extension, so has the view of the Catholic church toward the death penalty.
Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Tim Kaine, a Catholic, has been under fire since the outset of his race against Republican Jerry Kilgore for his opposition to the death penalty – which Kaine has said repeatedly is faith-based. Read more
Liberal use of the L-word
To say that the Jerry Kilgore campaign is efforting to paint Kilgore’s Democratic Party rival Tim Kaine as a liberal would be to understate things by quite a bit.
Virginians can hardly turn on their television or radio these days without seeing or hearing the L-word in reference to Kaine, the state’s sitting lieutenant governor.
Which begs the question – so this being a liberal, hey, it must be something bad, right? Read more
Potts files suit to get into debate
Story by Chris Graham
Russ Potts has filed suit against the University of Virginia Center for Politics seeking a spot in the televised gubernatorial-candidates debate being sponsored by the center and WWBT-NBC12 in Richmond this weekend.
A hearing on Potts’ suit has been scheduled for noon today in a federal court in Charlottesville. Potts, an independent, is seeking an injunction that would either give him a spot in the debate, which is being televised statewide, or postpone the debate until he can present legal arguments about why he should be allowed to participate. Read more
Is Kilgore effort to woo black voters for real?
Story by Chris Graham
Republican Party gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore has made headlines because he has made it known that he is serious about courting African-American voters.
But is the Kilgore campaign’s voter-outreach effort sincere? Read more
