Politics Notebook: On the campaign trail
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Tim Kaine talks Senate budget votes, and we look at the latest polling in New Hampshire and North Carolina
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Radtke: ACU shilling for Allen with endorsement
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Tea Party Republican Senate candidate Jamie Radtke blasted the American Conservative Union endorsement of George Allen today
Poll: Kaine-Allen race still a tossup
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Yesterday the news from Public Policy Polling was that Barack Obama had an eight-point lead statewide in his race for re-election. Today the news is that former Obama vice-president short-lister Tim Kaine is in a dead heat in another PPP survey of Virginians on their preferences for the U.S. Senate.
Warner amendment addresses federal pension backlog
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Postal reform legislation adopted by the U.S. Senate today on a vote of 62-37 included an amendment written by Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) that aims to accelerate and improve a federal benefits processing system that still relies on the hand-processing of paper records. Virginia is home to an estimated 130,000 federal workers, and many…
Kaine sees Waynesboro business working firsthand
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Third in a series It can be easy for politicians running for office to stay within the bubble of campaign events – shaking hands, making speeches, eating on the run, rinse, repeat. U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine has been making it a point to get out from under the bubble with a series of walking…
Kaine visits Waynesboro, learns about local business community
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First in a series Former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine learned a lot on his April 14 walking tour of Downtown Waynesboro. Kaine, a Democrat, met with groups of business owners and city leaders Saturday morning before speaking to a group of 60 local voters about the state of the 2012 U.S. Senate race.
Kaine outlines economic agenda
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Tim Kaine released his economic agenda on Wednesday as he embarked on a two-week tour of Virginia. The roadmap includes strategic initiatives to grow businesses and encourage job creation, develop a talented workforce, and balance the budget by finding common ground on spending cuts as well as investments that will generate new revenue. “As the…
Allen raises $1.4M in first quarter
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The George Allen for U.S. Senate campaign announced on Tuesday that it has raised more than $1.4 million since the start of the year. The first quarter report will show that the Allen campaign has nearly $2.66 million cash-on-hand.
Kaine camp announces first-quarter money numbers
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Kaine for Virginia announced on Tuesday that the campaign raised more than $2.2 million in the first quarter of 2012, and has more than $4.4 million cash on hand. Since the campaign began one year ago, Kaine for Virginia has raised $7.4 million from more than 19,000 individuals. In the first quarter of 2012, 6,000…
Chris Graham: Virginia GOP doing its best to re-elect Obama
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Think back all the way to the spring of 2010. The world was such a different place. Democrats were still riding high, relatively, anyway. Sure, the Tea Party protests of the summer and fall of 2009 were a jolt, but Dems still had enough political capital at their disposal to pass historic health-care reform. Ah,…
