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Story by Chris Graham Bob McDonnell has claimed victory. Creigh Deeds has vowed to fight to ensure that every vote has been counted. And so the Virginia political world turns as the race for attorney general moves toward week three of overtime. “The people get to decide who the next attorney general is, not Bob…
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Story by Chris Graham The numbers at the top of the page on Election Night in Virginia were nothing if not surprising. Republicans Bill Bolling and Bob McDonnell swept to apparent victories in the lieutenant-governor and attorney-general races, respectively. Meanwhile, GOP candidates were holding on to a solid majority in the House of Delegates –…
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Story by Chris Graham The bulk of the attention in the Staunton city elections this fall has been on the hot commissioner of the revenue race pitting incumbent Ray Ergenbright and challenger Maggie Ragon – and their tussle over whether or not Ergenbright should shoulder the blame for the delayed implementation of a new revenue-management…
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Story by Chris Graham If you’re, say, Burger King, or Wendy’s, it’s OK being number two or number three. And if you’re the advertising agency for one of the burger companies looking up at McDonald’s, your job isn’t to come up with something that knocks off number one or else.
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Story by Chris Graham Republican Party gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore has made headlines because he has made it known that he is serious about courting African-American voters. But is the Kilgore campaign’s voter-outreach effort sincere?
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Story by Chris Graham Political observers across the Commonwealth have the 26th House District race on their radar screens – and for good reason. The contest between Democrat Lowell Fulk and Republican Matt Lohr is very much a toss-up at this stage – which is headline news for a political campaign in the Republican-leaning Shenandoah…
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Story by Chris Graham There is a regional foosball tournament going on in Staunton this weekend, so naturally, ESPN has a crew on location ready to beam the results to viewers worldwide. No, really. They do. “There’s a regional foosball tournament going on, so we decided, why not come here?” ESPN bureau producer Tony Florkowski…
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One thing I learned awhile ago, spend time with people who support you no matter what. I’m not one to normally dish out advice. Partly because I’m young, and I believe in a lot of ways you live and learn.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Democratic Party lieutenant-governor candidate Chap Petersen was supposed to deliver a brief talk to a group of new United States citizens on behalf of a nonpartisan lawyers’ group in Fairfax on Thursday. That was before a couple of phone calls from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services led to…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Jerry Kilgore was getting ready to talk hard politics. Which makes sense, given the stakes. There’s a state to be run, after all, not to mention a gubernatorial election – Kilgore, the attorney general in Virginia, is the frontrunner for the Republican Party nomination to run for governor…
