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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You don’t often hear the term radical associated with people in the political center. Mark Warner wants to get you thinking of moderates as radicals anyway. “This is driven by people who are saying, We’re tired of partisanship. We want to get things fixed. They know in their gut that…
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Column by Chris Graham I’ve been taking in the speculation about Mark Warner’s next political step – and the notion that Democrats are courting him to run for the United States Senate in 2008. My take on this is that we’re being a little premature in analyzing that one – given what I think is…
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Story by Chris Graham Mark Warner has been down this road before – lending his name and expending his political capital to aid political protege Tim Kaine’s run at the governor’s job last fall. The businessman-turned-Virginia political favorite son knows that there is risk involved to engaging in such efforts. “If you feel like you…
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Story by Chris Graham The big news in Harrisonburg today wasn’t that former presidential hopeful Mark Warner was in town with Senate nominee Jim Webb. It was that an event organized by Valley Democrats drew more than 400 people on a weekday afternoon. “I said to Jim on the way in here, I’ve had an…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Former Virginia governor Mark Warner was being talked about as a top contender for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination. To say that his announcement in Richmond today that he will not seek the nomination was a surprise, then, is a pretty good understatement. “It was definitely a…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Mark Warner sure has come a long way since the days when his claim to political fame was that he once came in second among candidates with the surname Warner in a United States Senate race. The former one-term Virginia governor is now considered by more than a…
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Story by Chris Graham The big winner in last week’s Virginia gubernatorial election was Democrat Tim Kaine. Or was it Democrat Mark Warner? “Mark Warner created the conditions for a Democratic victory in this state for Tim Kaine, no doubt about it,” George Mason University political-science professor Mark Rozell said.
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Story by Chris Graham Virginia Gov. Mark Warner wants to take the national Democratic Party back to the political center where it enjoyed success in the 1990s. A Shenandoah Valley political analyst, for his part, isn’t so sure that is the right course of action for the party’s future.
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Story by Chris Graham Staunton Braves fans know their baseball. This is a warning to Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, who will be throwing out the first pitch at Sunday night’s Staunton-Woodstock game in John Moxie Memorial Stadium. They’re going to expect a strike, Mr. Governor.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The conspiracy theorists have been having a field day with the report in the Feb. 25 edition of The Hartford Courant that offered up details into how Virginia Democratic Gov. Mark Warner apparently helped to introduce independent gubernatorial candidate Russ Potts to former independent Connecticut governor Lowell Weicker and…
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