Deeds campaign rolls out web campaign on the McDonnell thesis
Today the Deeds campaign unveiled the Twitter handle “@bobsthesis” and companion blog “Bob’s Thesis,” a webpage devoted to featuring quotes from the 93 page paper and providing context by showing how what McDonnell wrote directly translated into how he voted in the legislature.
“Whether he wants to admit it or not, Bob McDonnell laid out a blueprint in 1989 that he followed for two decades in public office,” says Deeds spokesperson Jared Leopold. “This blog will allow Virginians to get the facts about McDonnell’s thesis and his record of pursuing this out-of-the-mainstream policy. We encourage voters to share the facts with their friends through our new blog, Twitter and social networks.” Continue reading “Deeds campaign rolls out web campaign on the McDonnell thesis” »
David Cox | The thesis
Twenty years ago a Regent University student named Robert F. McDonnell wrote a thesis for his master’s degree. Unearthed by the Washington Post, it’s become fodder for the political campaign this same Mr. McDonnell, now universally known as “Bob,” is waging as a Republican for governor.
His conclusions have drawn plenty of fire. In the Buena Vista parade on Labor Day, various women wore T-shirts or carried signs declaring, “I am not a detriment to society!”—a reference to McDonnell’s saying that working women undermine the family. Continue reading “David Cox | The thesis” »
Poll: Thesis negatives dragging down McDonnell
Has the controversy over Bob McDonnell’s 1989 graduate-school thesis had an impact on the Virginia governor’s race? A new poll suggests that it has, and that it has the potential to do more damage as more voters start to pay attention to the upcoming state elections.
Fifty-two percent of the 600 registered voters surveyed by Clarus Research Group for its poll released on Tuesday said they had heard about the McDonnell thesis. Of that subset, 5 percent said the story feel more favorable toward McDonnell’s candidacy, 31 percent said it made them feel less favorable, and 63 percent said it had no effect on their opinion of McDonnell. That’s a net negative of 26 percent for McDonnell from the story among the overall voter population, which is significant as the Clarus poll suggests that the race has tightened a small bit, from a seven-point lead as was measured in a recent Washington Post live-interviewer poll to a five-point lead in the similarly-done live-interviewer Clarus poll, with 42 percent of voters surveyed saying they plan to vote for McDonnell, 37 percent saying they plan to vote for Deeds and 20 percent undecided. Continue reading “Poll: Thesis negatives dragging down McDonnell” »
Kickoff!
The 2009 fall campaign got its unofficial official kickoff down the Blue Ridge Parkway in Buena Vista at the Valley city’s annual Labor Day Parade Monday morning.
“This is home,” Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds answered a Washington Post reporter about why he feels he will do well in the Valley in the elections eight weeks from tomorrow.
All you wanted to know about the McDonnell Blueprint
Today the Creigh Deeds gubernatorial campaign released a wave of paid media aimed at informing voters of the out-of-the-mainstream views and record of Republican Bob McDonnell. The campaign released a new radio ad running on Northern Virginia radio, a new website and a large-scale Google and banner advertising campaign. Continue reading “All you wanted to know about the McDonnell Blueprint” »
The Regent administration
Monica Goodling. That’s what a Bob McDonnell gubernatorial term means.
Remember Monica? The 1999 graduate of Regent University who was a top aide to Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez? Sure, you do.
She’s the lawyer from the class at the former Christian Broadcasting Network University School of Law that had 60 percent of its grads fail the bar the first time they took it who rose within a couple of years of her graduation to serving as the hatchet for Gonzalez, and later overseeing the controversial firing of several U.S. attorneys for political reasons at the apparent direction of Karl Rove in 2006.
Continue reading “The Regent administration” »
A Deeds surge?
Two new polls are out on the Virginia governor’s race, and both still have Republican Bob McDonnell in the lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds, though the gap is clearly narrowing, to the point that one pollster is suggesting that Deeds could be surging into the lead.
Deeds actually led in the two days of polling done by Public Policy Polling after an article in the Washington Post detailing McDonnell’s controversial master’s degree thesis from McDonnell in which he wrote among other things that working women are “detrimental” to society appeared on Sunday, PPP communications director Tom Jensen wrote on the polling organization’s blog.
Continue reading “A Deeds surge?” »
Winners and Losers
WINNER: Jody Wagner
Her campaign was going nowhere fast. Enter the Bob McDonnell thesis, which suddenly makes the lone “detrimental” working woman on either major-party statewide ticket stand out a bit.
Memo to Bill Bolling: Repudiate that McDonnell guy, or face the firing squad with him. Continue reading “Winners and Losers” »
The devil we don’t know
It wasn’t that long ago that Bob McDonnell was bragging about the grad-school thesis that he wrote 20 years ago at the age of 34 as being a blueprint for GOP action on welfare policy.
Now he’s wishing he hadn’t brought up the thesis, since discovered in the Regent University library and shared with the world in all its glory as a blueprint for something else entirely.
Continue reading “The devil we don’t know” »
The Agenda | Tuesday, Sept. 1
Decision time for GOP’ers
Wowsers, that Bob McDonnell guy is a piece of work, isn’t he?
My second thought – following, Wowsers – was that not only has McDonnell has his Macaca moment, to infinity and beyond, Republicans down the ticket are going to be facing their own moment of truth in the coming days and weeks as well. Continue reading “The Agenda | Tuesday, Sept. 1” »
A ‘different’ Bob McDonnell
I wouldn’t say I’m bothered by what Bob McDonnell wrote two decades ago in his now-infamous master’s degree thesis.
OK, I am bothered by it, personally.
“While the proliferation in the day care industry was created in part by the financial hardships of women fostered by no-fault divorce, it was also stimulated by the private choices of individuals to increase their family income, or for some women, to break their perceived stereotypical role bonds and seek workplace equality and individual self-actualization. Must government subsidize the choices of a generation with an increased appetite for the materialistic components of the American Dream?” is the one that stands out the most to me, when I think back to where I was when he wrote those words in 1989. Continue reading “A ‘different’ Bob McDonnell” »
Daily Rant | Deeds Downer
Posted by afp on October 23, 2009 · 1 Comment
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