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Story by Chris Graham With AFP Video Majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents support school-choice policies including legislative initiatives that would create tax-credit scholarships and school vouchers, according to a new poll released by a coalition of groups that back school choice. The poll, commissioned by The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and conducted by…
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Story by Chris Graham Bob McDonnell led the GOP sweep in the 2009 state races and a six-seat Republican Party pickup in the House of Delegates with his move early in the ’09 election cycle to stake his campaign and by extension the campaigns of Republican candidates across Virginia on the economy and jobs to…
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Column by David Lampo The headline from the Washington Times the morning after that state’s historic election said it all: “Independents fuel GOP victories.” Because the campaign of Bob McDonnell methodically ran an inclusive campaign that discussed almost exclusively the economic issues that most people care about instead of focusing on divisive hot button social…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] The talk about a government bailout for the news media – and yes, there’s been plenty of talk on that of late – is bunk. Yeah, I’m known for being direct. It’s bunk, balderdash, for those thesaurically challenged, it’s pure crap. Which isn’t to say that I’d turn down…
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Column by David Reynolds May we get personal? I would like to talk about your body. Why not? Everybody else is doing it. Everybody is talking about your body. And mine. I do not recall giving anyone permission. I know I did not. For I try to keep my clothes on. But it doesn’t matter…
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The media and Republicans are howling about the gubernatorial-election trainwrecks in Virginia and New Jersey spelling early doom for the agenda of President Barack Obama not even a year into his term. It’s Tim Kaine’s job as Democratic National Committee chairman to put a silver lining in the smoke clouds. I asked Kaine after a…
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And it’s a small thing, because Waynesboro isn’t going to turn an election one way or the other all by itself. But my experience as the Democratic Party chair in Waynesboro the past couple of election seasons can be instructive nonetheless. It strikes me that I hadn’t even bothered to look at how Creigh Deeds…
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The House of Representatives voted 220-215 late Saturday night to approve legislation that includes mandates to insurance providers and consumers and creates a public option for the provision of insurance coverage. One Republican, Joseph Cao of Louisiana, joined 219 Democrats in voting for the bill; 176 Republicans and 39 Democrats voted against the legislation, which…
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Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte issued the following statement on Thursday after House Democratic leaders unveiled their latest proposal for health-care reform: “The health-care proposal that was unveiled today is a repackaging of what Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat leaders were pushing all summer: a Washington takeover of our health-care system —one defined by federal…
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Friday, Nov. 6 MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon. Let me – I’m going to start with a couple of things. I was going to do a week ahead but, as you might imagine, the week ahead prior to leaving for Asia is a bit in flux. As that gets filled in throughout the rest of today,…
