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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…
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Story by Chris Graham Virginia Republicans were a bit worried when they saw the exit polls that were coming in Tuesday afternoon were showing that George W. Bush would win the balloting in the Old Dominion by a slight three-point margin.
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] I recently passed a bittersweet milestone as a golf instructor. I’ve had several golfers improve to the point that they could beat me on the course, at least on a given day, but I have to admit that one of my golfers has become too tough…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Virginia wasn’t at all on Scott Rasmussen’s radar screen. The polling-firm head and Fox News Channel regular had been tracking several battleground states in the walkup to the 2004 presidential election. The Old Dominion, which has voted Republican in the past nine presidential-election cycles, wasn’t on that list at…
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Story by Chris Graham Election Day started early for Chuck Ricketts. “I was out at five this morning putting up campaign signs,” the Waynesboro mayor said as the day wound down toward the 7 p.m. close of the polls at Westminster Presbyterian Church, the city’s Ward D voting precinct. And then it was to the…
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Story by Chris Graham Frank Nolen had played the game before – numerous times. The former 22-year state senator and member of the Augusta County Board of Supervisors should know how to handle Election Day anxiety by now.
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Story by Chris Graham Win or lose, the sun will come up Wednesday morning. Larry Weeks has looked at the weather forecast – so he knows that much. “I told my wife that no matter what happens in the election, I’m still going to have to get out of bed Wednesday morning and take care…
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Column by Chris Graham For Emmett Hanger, being conversant in agricultural issues isn’t an election-year strategy. It’s a way of life. “I think he’s more effective because he understands the realities that we face out here every day,” said Gerald Garber, a Weyers Cave farmer who remembers Hanger, a Mount Solon Republican, from their days…
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Story by Chris Graham Jean Shrewsbury could take it easy this election season. Given that Shrewsbury, the commissioner of the revenue in Augusta County, is unopposed for re-election this fall. But the Republican isn’t sitting on the sidelines lamenting the fate of her challenged colleagues.
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