Potts down to last strike: Candidate running out of polls, time

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham Independent Russ Potts may have only one chance left to qualify for an Oct. 9 televised gubernatorial-candidate debate. Three organizations – Mason-Dixon, Rasmussen Reports and The Washington Post – have been regularly polling Virginia voters as to their preferences for governor in the 2005 elections. Only one of those three, the…

The man who stopped the Unabomber

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham David Kaczynski didn’t believe for a second that his brother, Ted, could have been the man known to the world as the Unabomber. “My initial reaction was, ‘Well, Ted’s never been violent. I can’t imagine him harming other people like this,’ ” said Kaczynski, whose wife, Linda, confronted him…

The web of 9/11 conspiracy intrigue

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham David Ray Griffin is the least likely conspiracy theorist that you’ll ever meet. A theologian by trade, Griffin was working on a book on Western imperialism at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. At the outset, Griffin said, he…

Sportsmen for (insert candidate name here)

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham   Either Virginia sportsmen are the key to winning the 2005 Virginia governor’s race – or Tim Kaine and Jerry Kilgore are plumb running out of ideas. “Neither one has been able to get any traction with voters, so they’re grasping at straws. They’re grasping at the sportsmen issue. They’re trying…

Life by design: Debate heats up over new theory of how we got here

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham The fact that President Bush thinks intelligent design should be taught in American public schools is more than enough for JoAnne Shirley. “I absolutely hope that this becomes an issue here locally and statewide. Students need to be given a choice, as the president said,” said Shirley, a former…

Matalin breaks down ’05 gubernatorial race

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham   The eyes of the nation are on the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial race, said Mary Matalin, a political commentator and former advisor to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. “This race is and will be the most-watched race in the country,” Matalin told Republicans across the state gathered for a…

Calling all Valley Democrats: Party having trouble finding candidates to challenge well-heeled GOP incumbents

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham There has been a lot of talk about the Democratic Party running a slate of candidates in the Republican-friendly Central Shenandoah Valley in the fall House of Delegates elections. But when it comes to action … “I haven’t ruled it out. My brother Danny and I have both been approached about…

Why didn’t the feds let Chap talk? CIS, Petersen camp both claim politics at heart of dispute

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The Top Story by Chris Graham Democratic Party lieutenant-governor candidate Chap Petersen was supposed to deliver a brief talk to a group of new United States citizens on behalf of a nonpartisan lawyers’ group in Fairfax on Thursday. That was before a couple of phone calls from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services led to…