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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] If Barack Obama was to go strictly by the positive numbers, he’d have John Edwards making a second run at the job of second most powerful person in the free world. A Rasmussen Reports survey released on Monday showed that the former North Carolina senator and 2004 Democratic Party vice-presidential…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] And now to add to the tapestry that is trying to figure out where Tim Kaine is on Barack Obama’s short-short VP list … Anne Holton Kaine and Tim Kaine are hosting an evening with Barack Obama benefiting the Obama Victory Fund on Wednesday, Aug. 6, at the Harrison Opera…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A story published today on Politico.com has Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine “very, very high” on the short list of presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama’s running mates.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Tim Kaine has some ideas for saving state taxpayer money in this day and age of $4-a-gallon gasoline. Kaine announced yesterday a telework initiative for 120 employees in his Cabinet and in the governor’s office and a directive to all state agencies to consider ways to improve and expand…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] An increase in the motor-vehicle sales tax, a hike in annual vehicle-registration fees, and a 1 percent increase in retail sales taxes in Northern Virginia and Hampton Road are among the highlights of Gov. Tim Kaine’s proposed solution to the state’s transportation-funding crisis. Kaine introduced legislation that he wants to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You know he has to get tired of having to answer the same questions over and over and over. Because he can’t really answer them in any meaningful way. And yet we have to ask them, because the prospects are so tantalizing. I mean, it’s not every day that you’re…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When Gov. Tim Kaine first made the call for a June 23 special session on transportation last month, he thought there was “about a 50-50 chance” that lawmakers would be able to get something done in terms of coming up with additional monies to go toward maintenance and new road…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: John McCain drops John Hagee like a hot potato “I can understand why people are upset about this. I can understand why, that Americans when viewing these kinds of comments are angry and upset.” That was McCain talking a few weeks ago about the controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright, incidentally….
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Perhaps Bob McDonnell missed something. “While I have worked closely and in agreement with the governor on many important reforms for our citizens, I cannot support the governor’s tax and spend philosophy as outlined in his transportation plan,” the presumptive 2009 Republican Party gubernatorial nominee said in a statement released…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine knows that Virginia lawmakers have a tough job. But … A deadline is a deadline is a deadline is a deadline. “We have a very short legislative session compared to most states. Most states have three-, four-, five-, six-month sessions, they’re in all year. The fact…
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