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The Waynesboro Democratic Committee will be co hosting its first meeting at the Ridgeview Park River Shelter on Monday, May 7 from 6-8 p.m. The event will be cosponsored by the Obama For America campaign. The WDC will provide free hamburgers and hot dogs. Visitors are asked to bring a side dish.
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There has been talk about the possible interest of U.S. Sen. Mark Warner in running for a second term as governor of Virginia in 2013. A new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia voters puts Warner as a heavy favorite in ’13 if he were to make that call. Warner outpolls Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli…
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Yesterday the news from Public Policy Polling was that Barack Obama had an eight-point lead statewide in his race for re-election. Today the news is that former Obama vice-president short-lister Tim Kaine is in a dead heat in another PPP survey of Virginians on their preferences for the U.S. Senate.
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We have, unfortunately, experience with losing elections – we being progressives in Waynesboro, loosely defined. And I say loosely defined because the word progressive means something very different in Waynesboro than it does just about everywhere else in the country
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Crowds of volunteers gathered across the entire Commonwealth Saturday to register new voters, just a week before President Obama comes to Richmond for his first day of campaign rallies. Volunteers were joined by Senator Mark Warner in Arlington, former Congressman Tom Perriello in Charlottesville, and Obama Campaign Deputy Operation Vote Director Michael Blake in Falls…
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On the 18th day of April, about six weeks after the procedural resolution called for the passage of a budget, Virginia’s General Assembly, together for a Veto Session, finally passed a budget. There is much in the budget to like, some items not to like, and signs for the future that are very worrisome.
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A day after deadlocking once again on the $85 billion spending plan for the 2012-2014 biennium, a sudden break by Democratic State Sen. Chuck Colgan from what had been unified Democratic Party opposition to the state budget led to its passage on Wednesday. Colgan, D-Prince William, told reporters after the 21-19 vote in the Senate…
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State Senate Democrats voted Tuesday against the state budget conference report because they said it did not properly address funding for projects in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. “The issue here is the lack of transportation funding in two different regions of the state,” said State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax). “Rail to Dulles will be…
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Second in a series Tim Kaine had thought, like a lot of us did, that his political career was over. In January 2010, Kaine finished up his term as governor of Virginia, and looked out a landscape in Virginia politics that featured two Democrats, Jim Webb and Mark Warner, representing the Commonwealth in the United…
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Ahead of tomorrow’s crucial vote on the Commonwealth’s Fiscal Year 2012-14 budget, House Republicans emphasized the importance of quickly passing Virginia’s biennial budget. House and Senate Budget conferees agreed to the conference report on the $85 billion budget before the Easter Holiday and localities, agencies and schools across the Commonwealth are waiting for final passage…
