Primary Day Live Blog
Updated: 5:30 p.m.
It’s Primary Day in Virginia – with voters flocking, ahem, to the polls to select Democratic Party nominees for governor, lieutenant governor and the House of Delegates. Join the AFP Live Blog today for news updates from the polls in the Valley and Central Virginia and statewide and to share your thoughts, observations, predictions, pictures and more. Read more
Turnout in the 25th, and the projected winner
The media coverage is wrapping up. The endorsements seem like they’re done coming in. It’s time for the select few of us to do our duty and trickle out to the polls on Tuesday to choose a 25th House District Democratic Party nominee. Read more
Meet the Candidates – tonight!
The Waynesboro Democratic Committee and Augusta Free Press Publishing are sponsoring a Meet the Candidates event at the Downtown Pavilion in Constitution Park tonight – Tuesday – from 6-8 p.m.
The primary to decide Democratic Party nominees for governor, lieutenant governor and the 25th District are a week away – Tuesday, June 9.
25th District Democratic candidates Greg Marrow and Jim Noel are scheduled to be on hand for tonight’s event, which is free and open to the public. Representatives and surrogates for the Creigh Deeds, Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran campaigns for governor and the Mike Signer and Jody Wagner campaigns for lieutenant governor are also slated to be with us. Read more
Landes to kick off re-election campaign in 25th
Del. Steve Landes, R-Weyers Cave, will be making three stops to announce his plans for the 2009 General Election for the House of Delegates on Saturday, May 23. Landes will be traveling to three different locations to kick off his campaign. Read more
The Valley Campaign Trail: Curren in DNR, updates from Price, Marrow, May 26 green jobs event notice, June 2 Waynesboro meet and greet
Curren in DNR
An op-ed on the unemployment stimulus issue by 20th House District Democratic Party nominee Erik Curren appeared in the Daily News-Record on Monday.
You can read the article here.
More on Curren is available online at www.erikcurren.com. Read more
Team Coverage | Democrats raise the temperature on GOP unemployment block
Results, Not Roadblocks was the theme of the news event featuring Democratic Party candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates at the Virginia Employment Commission office in Harrisonburg Thursday afternoon. AFP editor Chris Graham was there and reports across the media platforms. The videos feature 15th District Democratic nominee John Lesinsky, 20th District Democratic nominee Erik Curren, 24th District Democratic nominee Jeff Price, 25th District Democratic candidates Greg Marrow and Jim Noel, and 26th District Democratic nominee Gene Hart. Watch the videos, and read Chris’ written report on the unemployment funding controversy and check out the day in photos. Read more
The debut of The Green Issue
The April 2009 edition of The New Dominion Magazine is making its way out into coffeeshops and restaurants and libraries and businesses across the Central Shenandoah Valley. It’s our first Green Issue, focusing on the local green economy in our cover story and taking a look at how green thinking is impacting our real-estate market and more. Read more
