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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He barely has to shave, and he wants to be your congressman. “In all honesty, it’s a shock at first,” said Sam Rasoul, 26, of Blue Ridge, who has been running hard for the past year for the Democratic Party nomination to challenge incumbent Republican Bob Goodlatte for the Sixth…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Gilmore is a solid Republican – but he’s willing to break with party leaders, and even President Bush, when he feels it necessary. “We don’t want to necessarily carry the power in Iraq strictly on the backs of the military. We’re very proud of those men and women, we…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I don’t know how radical someone proclaiming himself to be a centrist can possibly be. Mark Warner is definitely trailblazin’ on a new path here. “Come January of ’09, we’re going to have a new president, obviously. I hope that it’s a Democrat, but regardless, that new president is going…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Emmett Hanger is sure of one thing – he hasn’t changed since his first run for elected office in 1979. And if you ask him, if anything has changed in the past three decades, it’s the Republican Party that he has trumpeted since the days when the Valley GOP could…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s Thanksgiving – and on this day when we are supposed to reflect on reasons that we all have to be thankful, I thought it appropriate to muse on the reasons that newsmakers in Virginia might have to be thankful this holiday season. Ahem. Here goes.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The 27th Senate District is still a Republican Senate district – but that doesn’t mean that Democrats will throw in the towel following the bitter defeat of nominee Karen Schultz in Tuesday’s election.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham He had to fend off perhaps the fight of his political life in June with a party-primary challenge from Rockbridge County businessman Scott Sayre. With the change of seasons from summer to fall, 24th District Republican Sen. Emmett Hanger would seem to have if not the second-biggest fight of…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Every so often, we sit here around the office and wonder out loud who would play us in the movie – you know, if somebody ever made a movie about life at The New Dominion. (A tragihorradvencomiromanuementary, I’m guessing. I’m sure it would win an Academy Award. Maybe…
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Column by Chris Graham So I’m walking down the streets of Buena Vista the other day, when out of the blue came a guy running for … something. “You still hang around with the mainstream media?” Mark Warner asked me as he made his way toward another handshake at the annual Labor Day parade in…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham So I’m walking down the streets of Buena Vista the other day, when out of the blue came a guy running for … something. “You still hang around with the mainstream media?” Mark Warner asked me as he made his way toward another handshake at the annual Labor…
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