News from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Chris Graham

Friday, July 17 – Press briefing by Tony Blinken, national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, on the vice president’s upcoming trip to Ukraine and Georgia Thursday, July 16 – Press gaggle with Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton – Vice President Biden highlights Recovery Act progress in Virginia – Statement from the president on…

From the Campaign Trail

Chris Graham

Friday, July 17 – McDonnell takes $100K from Swift Boaters – Shannon asks Cuccinelli to clarify incendiary remarks by ticketmate Wednesday, July 15 – Wagner to visit Valley on Thursday Tuesday, July 14 – AG Race: Shannon asks Cuccinelli question on votes on drunk-driving bills Monday, July 13 – Governor’s Race: Deeds to report $3.4M…

It’s all about the money

Contributors

“Many of our schools are failing and our dropout rate is too high, but the VEA finds time to advocate for illegal same sex marriage,” said Victoria Cobb, President of The Family Foundation, in a statement highlighted in a news release from the social-conservative organization based in Richmond. 

Chris Graham | Do the right thing, Tim

Chris Graham

I get that the flap over Gov. Tim Kaine’s travel schedules got going because Republicans didn’t have anything better to do with their time this summer. But the wild swing by GOP chair Pat Mullins has connected solidly and sent the political baseball uncomfortably toward the cheap seats in deep left-center, uncomfortably, that is, for…

Updates from the Campaign Trail

Chris Graham

Friday, July 10 – AG Race: Cuccinelli calls for special session – 20th House: Saxman statement on anti-gang committee Thursday, July 9 – Dems respond to McDonnell-Bolling jobs agenda Wednesday, July 8 – LG Race: Wagner calls Bolling out on Palin visit – Governor’s Race: Statement from Creigh Deeds on expansion of stem-cell research

First shots in LG race

Chris Graham

“We must restore fiscal integrity.” Interesting choice of words from an elected official who if he’d had his way would have pushed Virginia to the brink of fiscal insolvency. The words are Bill Bolling’s, in an interview published last week in The Midlothian Exchange. Bolling, running for re-election as lieutenant governor, was apparently talking about…

Presidential Library announces honorary chair, new trustees

Chris Graham

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation today announced that its Board of Trustees has appointed Peter F. deVaux as Honorary Chair of the Foundation, the third person so honored in the 71 year history of the Foundation. The Foundation also announced the election of Stephan W. Milo of Staunton, Virginia; Haskell Rhett of Afton, Virginia;…