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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Augusta County Democrats elected 11 delegates to represent the local party at the Democratic Party State Convention on June 14. Six are pledged to support Barack Obama at the convention – Tamara Kincaid, Elizabeth La Grua, Tom Long, Riley Murray, Starke Smith and Sherry Stanley. Five are committed to Hillary…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Augusta County Democratic Committee will caucus on April 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Augusta County Government Center in Verona to select delegates to the Sixth District Democratic Convention and the State Democratic Convention. Participants must be registered voters in Augusta County and sign a declaration that they are…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I surely didn’t see it coming. “I am suspending my campaign for the Democratic nomination effective immediately,” Sixth District Democratic congressional candidate Drew Richardson said in a statement today that ended his run at the party nomination. “I congratulate the presumptive nominee, Mr. Rasoul, and wish him and his supporters…
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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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