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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bob Goodlatte threw down the gauntlet. “Their budget proposal calls for $683 billion in new taxes over the next five years. That would mean a tax increase for more than 116 million American taxpayers, who will face an average tax hike of $1,800. And while obviously businesses large and small…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Look at the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial race one way, and it looks an awful lot like the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race. You’ve got two candidates in both who are perceived as being basically dead-even right now who you have to assume will fight to the death for the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So you’re Jim Gilmore, and you’re running for the United States Senate. You’ve served as a state attorney general, running the biggest law firm in the state for four pretty solid years. You’re a former governor who won election by a comfortable margin over a two-term Democratic lieutenant governor in…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Maybe it’s just me, but I thought I heard something in Bill Bolling’s comments yesterday about his decision regarding the 2009 governor’s race that sounded like a dig at Bob McDonnell. “Because I’m not independently wealthy, and do not currently have a full-time government position, I have to work for…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling stressed that his decision to stay out of the 2009 governor’s race had nothing to do with trying to avoid a pitched battle with Attorney General Bob McDonnell. But you have to wonder if that wasn’t a big reason that the Republican is essentially ceding the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Fourteen months of traveling the Sixth District comes down to the last few weeks for Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nomination candidate Sam Rasoul. Democrats in the district will meet April 19-21 to select delegates to the district convention in May. Effectively, then, the race between Rasoul and Drew Richardson…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The 49,860 votes that two independent congressional candidates received combined in 2006 in the Sixth District made Drew Richardson stand up and take notice. Nearly one in four voters who came to the polls in the Sixth in ’06 cast their lots for Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte’s two challengers. I…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Creigh Deeds lives 85 miles from Charlottesville. That’s how far I am from Richmond, give or take a mile or two. Can you imagine a legislative district that would somehow link Waynesboro and Richmond? Yeah. Not much of a community of interest there. Right? But Deeds represents Charlottesville in the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bill Bolling wanted to talk around the issue of whether or not he plans to run for governor in 2009. Bob McDonnell took the question head on. “I’ve told people for some time now that I’m planning to run, that I’m doing some of the things that need to be…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bill Bolling sounds like somebody who is thinking about how he would do things differently if he was governor. “Under the best of circumstances, adopting a budget is difficult. It’s even more difficult when you have sluggish economic growth. But the governor did unnecessarily complicate the process by bringing us…
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