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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Sam Rasoul for Congress campaign is on the air with a radio commercial that will begin airing in markets in the Sixth District this week. The ad features a voiceover from Rasoul, the Democratic Party nominee in the Sixth, talking up his background and his agenda for reform. “As…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The talk about Tim Kaine being on Barack Obama’s VP short list is no accident. Just look at the timing. That’s what has Christopher Newport University political-science professor Quentin Kidd thinking there’s more to the firestorm of coverage on this short-list news than maybe meets the eye. “There are two…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nomination candidate Jon Bowerbank is busy assembling his staff for his ’09 run. Bowerbank announced yesterday that he has retained the Northern Virginia-based Maverick Strategies to serve in an advisory role to his campaign. Members of the Maverick firm include Jessica Vanden Berg, who managed Jim Webb’s…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] COULDN’T FIND ANYTHING A LITTLE MORE RECENT: Gilmore picks on Warner Version 1994.0 Um, hello, 1994 was 14 years ago! I was just graduating from college. People are expected to grow over time, and Mark Warner certainly has. Otherwise, the Gilmore folks wouldn’t have to dig so far back to…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A story published today on Politico.com has Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine “very, very high” on the short list of presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama’s running mates.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Barack Obama presidential campaign will open a Staunton headquarters on Saturday. The headquarters will be located at 100 S. New St. in Downtown Staunton. The location will open to the public at 10 a.m. Saturday with an open house running through 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: Me, for not being able to spell It’s Cindy Corell, one -r, it was pointed out to me today. Got it. (The name seems to scream out for a second -r. Seriously, Cindy, you might want to consider …) So let’s diagram the matter of the Paint the Valley…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Jim Sacco at the NV is givin’ ’em hell at Fort I’m just adding my voice on this to the work that Jim Sacco has been doing to give the Fort Defiance High School administration hell for the way it handled the recent dismissal of beloved wrestling coach Terry…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Shenandoah Valley is among the reddest parts of red-state America. Tim Russert, God rest his soul, needed a brighter shade for us to get across just how red we are. George W. Bush got 74.4 percent of the vote in Augusta County and Rockingham County in 2004,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Radical centrist.” The words don’t seem to go together, but then you listen to Mark Warner describe the concept that he’s trying to sell, and it makes a lot of sense. “We’re going to have a window in January of ’09, whether it’s McCain or Obama, and if we can’t…
