Posted by afp on January 28, 2009 · 1 Comment
When I was 17, I was barely able to say the word “campaign.” Matthew Whitfield has already worked on his generation’s most important political campaign, and the Robert E. Lee senior is really just getting started.
“We thought we could make a difference if we worked at it, and it started snowballing from there,” said Whitfield, who helped found the Young Democrats club at Lee and has aided in the effort to get other Young Dems groups going at high schools across the Greater Augusta area. Read more
Posted by afp on December 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment
On the verge of global economic collapse, we hear many ideas about how to improve our economy. Just spending more is not going to work. You can add all the fuel you want to a broken engine, but our nation needs to make some fundamental changes. If we are going to spend trillions in taxpayer dollars, we must make them count.
Here are 10 points that I feel will help rebuild the economy, but it won’t be quick, cheap, or easy. The first five points are more short-term in nature and the last five more long-term: Read more
Posted by afp on December 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The attacks in Mumbai brought to the front page more senseless bloodshed by brainwashed radicals wanting to gain recognition through terror. Virginia lost two of her own, including a 13 year-old girl from Nelson County, in the attacks over the holiday weekend by anti-Indian, Pakistani gunmen. Read more
Posted by afp on November 6, 2008 · 11 Comments
Column by Chris Graham
“If I forget everything else when I get old and gray,” a friend told me Tuesday night, “I hope I never forget this feeling.”
I understood completely what he was saying, because I had just had a similar thought myself. CNN and Fox News had just called the presidential race in Virginia for Barack Obama, bringing tears to my eyes and the eyes of many at our party at the Waynesboro Democratic Headquarters because we knew what was coming next.
The big-screen TV was tuned to CNN, which ran a countdown to the close of the polls in Calfornia, a state that was all but certain to go to Obama and push him over the top in the Electoral College.
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Posted by afp on November 5, 2008 · 3 Comments
Story by Chris Graham
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Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States, in no small part due to Virginia, which voted for a Democrat for president for the first time in 44 years as it also elected a Democrat in Mark Warner to the United States Senate by a historic margin and will send Tom Perriello to the Fifth District seat in the United States Congress.
Obama won Virginia by 93,000 votes out of nearly 3.3 million votes cast, with 1,695,035 votes to 1,602,395 votes for Republican John McCain. The margin was 50.9 percent to 48.1 percent. An analysis by The Augusta Free Press shows that 11,000 votes of the working margin for Obama came from increased Democratic voter turnout in the Central Shenandoah Valley – in Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County and Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. McCain won those areas by a combined vote total of 61,758 votes to 37,790 votes, winning the counties handily while Obama won majorities in Harrisonburg and Staunton and improved 10 percentage points while falling in Waynesboro. Republican George W. Bush won the region in 2004 by a combined vote total of 60,899 votes to 25,616 votes for Democrat John Kerry, meaning McCain improved on the Bush ’04 vote total by less than 1,000 votes while Obama improved on the Kerry ’04 vote total by 12,000 votes.
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Filed under Government/Politics · Tagged with augusta county, barack obama, bob goodlatte, harrisonburg, jim gilmore, john mccain, mark warner, rockingham county, sam rasoul, staunton, the augusta free press, tom perriello, virgil goode, waynesboro
Posted by afp on November 2, 2008 · 5 Comments
Story by Chris Graham
freepress2@ntelos.net
The Bob Goodlatte campaign contacted Rockingham County Democrat Mike Breeden asking Breeden’s permission to use his name on a campaign mailer as a supporter.
Breeden didn’t return the phone call, but his name ended up in the mailer anyway, at the top of a list of eight Democrats and eight independents that the campaign claims is backing the Republican incumbent.
“I did not endorse Bob Goodlatte. I did not return a call to Bob Goodlatte in which he asked me for permission to use my name as a Democrat supporting him in the Shenandoah Valley. I support the Democratic Party and Sam Rasoul for Congress,” said Breeden, a Democrat and a member of the Rockingham County Board of Supervisors.
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Posted by afp on October 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment
AFP News sits down with Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nominee Sam Rasoul about the 2008 elections. Length: 6:52.
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The attacks in Mumbai brought to the front page more senseless bloodshed by brainwashed radicals wanting to gain recognition through terror. Virginia lost two of her own, including a 13 year-old girl from Nelson County, in the attacks over the holiday weekend by anti-Indian, Pakistani gunmen. Read more
Sam Rasoul | 10 Points To Help Rebuild Our Economy
Posted by afp on December 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Here are 10 points that I feel will help rebuild the economy, but it won’t be quick, cheap, or easy. The first five points are more short-term in nature and the last five more long-term: Read more
Filed under Blogs · Tagged with automakers, bailout, big three, green technologies, green-collar jobs, Home Mortgage Interest Deduction, hr 676, pell grants, sam rasoul, wall street