Hot air from the ‘Pubs
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Gov. Tim Kaine is pushing an increase on the state tax on cigarette sales. You’d think he was puttiing a surcharge on the air we breathe and the water we drink from listening to the Republicans.
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Cucinelli leads the GOP AG pack out of the gate
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Bad news for Republicans in ’09 – Ken Cuccinelli is organized. The state senator and ’09 attorney-general nomination candidate submitted more than 20,000 signatures to the Republican Party of Virginia on Monday to become the first AG candidate to qualify for the Republican Convention next spring.
Steven Sisson | Don’t just stand there. Give ‘im a pencil
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In 2003, the Blue Dog first met Congressman Virgil Goode at the Greene County Strawberry Festival. While shaking hands and passing-out Sisson for Senate campaign literature, I heard a high-pitched shrilled voice calling-out … “Steeeveee Sissssson … anti-tax Democrat fer State Senate!” Even though I had never met him, I knew the distinct voice of…
White House ’08: Obama makes case in Roanoke
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Barack Obama had two words Friday for supporters who want to think that he has the ’08 presidential election sewn up. “New Hampshire.” “We were up 10 in the polls the day before the election, and we ended up losing. We were up in Texas and Ohio, we…
White House ’08: McCain locks up the GOP vote
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] John McCain did exactly what he wanted to do last night, which could have been the game-changer that he has been trying to make happen for weeks were it the case that all he needed to do was convince fire-breathing Republicans that he was their man. He hit on Bill…
Harrisonburg: Candidates in Sixth talk issues
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The economy, Iraq, health care and interestingly, term limits. Voters in the Sixth District were able to get a glimpse into the differing approaches of Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte, Democrat Sam Rasoul and independent Janice Lee Allen on those issues and others in a candidates forum sponsored by WSVA-550AM in…
Business and Politics: Bailout rescue passes House
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] And just like that, we had ourselves a bailout rescue. The House voted 263-171 today to pass a compromise $850 billion plan to buy up securities from Wall Street lenders to take pressure off the financial and credit markets, just four days after a vote on a similar legislative proposal…
Business and Politics: Fiddling while Wall Street is burning
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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…
Harrisonburg: Former Clinton, Bush national-security adviser stumps for Obama
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Richard Clarke never thought he’d be out on the stump for a presidential candidate. A counterterrorism expert who worked in the federal government for 30 years, his job was to make it so that nobody outside a small circle of people in the State Department ever knew his name. But…
Jim Webb: Bailout should include strengthened regulatory structure, cap on executive compensation
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] U.S. Sen. Jim Webb is urging that the $700 billion bailout of the U.S. mortgage industry being contemplated by Congress include a strengthened regulatory structure to prevent future market instability and a cap on executive compensation in companies being rescued by taxpayers. “It is inarguable that the regulatory structure now…
