David Cox: Personality clash

David Cox

Column by David Cox “Which candidate do you trust?” When former governor Jim Gilmore asked that question in Buena Vista on Labor Day, roars arose from both sides: Republicans supporting him for Senate, and Democrats supporting his opponent, former governor Mark Warner. In that instant, Gilmore personalized this year’s Senate race. Gone were issues that…

Virginia Politics: Dems, Kaine fight back against GOP flame-throwing on prayer policy

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith and Grayson Republican Del. Bill Carrico are promising a pitched legislative fight in next year’s Virginia General Assembly to overturn a Virginia State Police policy crafted in response to a ruling from the conservative Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals from the summer banning…

Business and Politics: Fiddling while Wall Street is burning

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A funny thing happened on the way to John McCain riding in on his white horse to solve the Wall Street crisis – the horse was late, and by the time McCain got involved, they’d had the crisis solved without him. And then a funnier thing happened – when McCain…

White House ’08: Obama, McCain and the bailout

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson are urging swift action on the Bush administration’s proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout. Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are balking, and as the pressure is mounting on Congress to act, it is raising to a fever pitch on…

White House ’08: ‘Hillary Sent Me!’ rallies Clinton supporters to Obama-Biden

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Hillary Clinton is rallying her supporters to back the Barack Obama-Joe Biden ticket and other Democrats in key congressional races across the country. “We always knew that we would have a tough election, that it would be close, and it’s critical that no matter who you supported in the primary,…

Business and Politics: Equal pay for equal work

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You’ve probably never heard the name Lilly Ledbetter, so you might think it unusual that Michelle Obama would go out of her way to talk about how “amazing” the retired grandmother is. “I know that there are many people here who didn’t know her story, didn’t understand the origins of…

Virginia Politics: Rasoul vows to limit terms

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bob Goodlatte said in 1992 during his first campaign for the Sixth District seat in the U.S. Congress that he would limit his time in Congress to six two-year terms. His ’08 run is for term #9, and though Goodlatte has been silent as to the broken promise, Democrats haven’t…

Waynesboro: Former Mississippi governor talks up Obama campaign

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was a midday Thursday event in Waynesboro featuring a former Mississippi governor stumping for Barack Obama. You wouldn’t expect to see more than a handful of people on hand, right? So then when 55 people show up to see Ray Mabus talk about what Obama wants to do to…

Virginia Politics: Warner still has sizable lead

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Republicans have been whispering that the Senate race between Jim Gilmore and Mark Warner has been tightening up, but a new poll from Public Policy Polling has it right where it has been for months. Warner had a 57 percent-to-33 percent lead in the latest PPP poll released this morning….