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Looks like we’re going with the expansive definition of the Shenandoah Valley for the conclusion of the Deeds Country Tour. The closest the tour will get to the actual Shenandoah Valley is on Sunday when it wraps in Deeds’ home Bath County with a homecoming event. Which is all well and good, but we’re leaving…
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After three weeks in sunny California, two of them cooped in a convention center and hotel conference rooms, how marvelous to wake up in Virginia, land of green trees, verdant fields, friendly folks…and those two banes of life in the Old Dominion: mosquitoes and yearly elections.
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Sen. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic nominee for governor, will kick off his “Deeds Country” Tour on Sunday, Aug. 2, in Charlottesville . Deeds’ weeklong tour will take him to more than 20 cities and towns in Southwest and Southside Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley.
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The big news in an otherwise slow news week – for those who don’t consider Michael Jackson to be anything other than an odd curiosity – had Virginia earning another ranking as the top state for business, this time from Pollina Corporate Real Estate Inc., a corporate site-relocation expert that has now tapped the Old…
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We can neither confirm or deny that this is what Creigh Deeds said Tuesday, June 9, in his Charlottesville Omni hotel room as the election returns came in showing him routing his two opponents, and now standing just one election away from being the next governor of Virginia. And that is not a bad place…
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When Creigh Deeds announced his candidacy for the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination back in December 2007, it was not exactly with the full support of the Democratic Party decisionmaking set. The whispers at the time and for months after were that party leaders had been trying to persuade Deeds to make another run at…
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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,…
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Two new polls out Monday have Bath County State Sen. Creigh Deeds building a commanding lead in the Democratic Party gubernatorial primary heading into the Tuesday state primary. The final pre-election Public Policy Polling poll has Deeds at 40 percent, with former nomination frontrunner Terry McAuliffe at 26 percent and former Northern Virginia lawmaker Brian…
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Next Tuesday’s election will cut down two men who have the same desire. One will live for another day, a day in November. The last man left standing will be Virginia’s next governor.
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Another day, another poll, and another direction in the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial race. This one comes from Survey USA, which has Terry McAuliffe in the lead by six points over Creigh Deeds in numbers that do represent some movement from the most recent Survey USA poll, but not much.
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