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AFP editor Chris Graham talks Virginia news and politics on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with a look at the endgame of the 2011 Virginia General Assembly session. Will legislators be able to meet their Feb. 26 deadline for getting a budget approved and on the way to Gov. Bob McDonnell? Chris…
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It’s official: U.S. Sen. Jim Webb will not run for a second term representing Virginia in the United States Senate in 2012. “After much thought and consideration, I have decided to return to the private sector, where I have spent most of my professional life, and will not seek re-election in 2012,” Webb said in…
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A House of Delegates subcommittee on Friday struck from its docket a bill to authorize Virginia’s secretive Fusion Center to expand its scope from collecting information on terrorist threats to also collecting data on ordinary crimes. The ACLU of Virginia had led an effort to publicly oppose the bill, saying that a heavily criticized 2009…
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Contrary to last year’s press clippings, fist fights did not break out at this year’s Lexington-Rockbridge-Buena Vista “State of the Community” breakfast. Instead it was the usual sea of harmony sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, aka the local Pollyanna Society. The breakfast proved once again that there is a media bias. Representatives from our…
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Much uncertainty swirls around the race for the U.S. Senate seat in Virginia up for re-election in 2012 – first and foremost whether incumbent Democrat Jim Webb will even be in the running for re-election. That uncertainty, and the changing political climate in the Commonwealth since Webb’s upset of George Allen in 2006 and Barack…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell’s plan to use money from the privatization of state-run ABC stores to fund transportation-infrastructure improvements is likely to die a quiet death in the 2011 Virginia General Assembly, according to State Sen. Emmett Hanger. “I think some of us have decided that we would sit on it a little bit, let him…
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The head of the state Democratic Party is offering criticism of Gov. Bob McDonnell in the wake of his election as vice chair of the Republican Governors Association. “Bob McDonnell’s aggressive campaign schedule does raise valid questions about whether campaigning in other states is the best way for our governor to spend his time, especially…
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Editor Chris Graham joins WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” to talk Virginia news and politics. The segment begins with discussion of a recent poll that shows former governor and senator George Allen leading a pack of potential candidates for support for the 2012 GOP Senate nomination. The same poll, surprisingly, also shows both Jim Webb…
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At first glance, Virginia has flipped, big time. The Old Dominion was blue in 2008, and has been bright red since, with Republicans sweeping the 2009 state races and taking three of the six seats held by incumbent Democrats in the 2010 congressional midterms. Not so fast, says Quentin Kidd, a political-science professor at Christopher…
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