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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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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The pundits want to paint Virginia blue, or at the least purple. Creigh Deeds isn’t convinced that a new crayola is necessary just yet. “People that say that Virginia is blue, or Virginia is purple, haven’t spent too much time campaigning in Augusta County. You know what I’m saying? Or…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rein in federal spending, and the economy will grow. And when the economy grows, the federal budget gets into balance. And when the federal budget gets into balance, you can begin to pay down the national debt. It didn’t necessarily work in the Reagan years, and it’s not exactly working…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte Just last week, the House majority unveiled their proposed budget resolution for fiscal year 2009, which calls for the largest tax increase in American history: $683 billion over the next five years. This proposal significantly increases the tax burden on the middle class to pay for new wasteful government spending. Facing a slowing…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rick Howell remembers asking Sam Rasoul about his campaign fund-raising efforts last summer when he worked for the Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nomination candidate as his campaign manager. And he remembers that he didn’t like the answer that he was given. “I felt that Sam was rather vague with…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] National Democrats are considering the Fifth Congressional District as being in play this November. That says a lot about what Tom Perriello has been able to do in the past few months. “It’s been really exciting to see the overwhelming response of people all over the district. This gives us…
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Column by Steve Landes This last week in Richmond was one of the busiest and most eventful of the session, as the General Assembly has now reached the home stretch in completing its work for 2008. In a week that began with a federal holiday and ended with my attendance at the celebration of the…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline With just over two weeks to go, we are beginning to see which bills are going to succeed this session, and which are going to fall just short. Out of more than 3,000 bills that are introduced, only about 30 percent of them are enacted into law….
AFP will break down local, Virginia and national races in the battle for the control of Congress Tuesday night.