
AFP Sports Blog – Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009
– News: UVa. releases ’09 football schedule, Thursday, 4:15 p.m. – News: Five Cavs invited to NFL combine, Thursday, 4:15 p.m. – News: VCU pulls out nailbiter over JMU, Thursday, 9:15 a.m.

– News: UVa. releases ’09 football schedule, Thursday, 4:15 p.m. – News: Five Cavs invited to NFL combine, Thursday, 4:15 p.m. – News: VCU pulls out nailbiter over JMU, Thursday, 9:15 a.m.

– News: Citizens group leading fight against reassessments releases petition locations, Monday, 11:58 a.m. – News: Celebrate Black History Month on The Journey Through Hallowed Ground, Wednesday, 9:20 a.m. – News: Scholarships for children of fallen service members, Wednesday, 9:20 a.m.

– News: Transportation secretary meets with state leaders to discuss stimulus, Wednesday, 4:05 p.m. – News: Moran gets Petersburg endorsements, Wednesday, 4:05 p.m. – News: Perriello honors NAACP, Wednesday, 4:05 p.m. – News: Bills blocking REAL ID pass House, Senate, Wednesday, noon – News: Deeds announces campaign communications team, Wednesday, 9:20 a.m.

Jim Webb isn’t your average run-of-the-mill partisan whose vote can be accounted for solely based on his Democratic Party pedigree. The centrist Virginia senior senator studied the economic-stimulus plan making its way through Congress line item-by-line item. “I had to be able to sit up here as I am right now and say, This is…

Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nomination candidate Pat Edmonson will make a campaign stop in Waynesboro Wednesday night. Edmonson will speak at the Waynesboro Democratic Committee meeting being held at the Waynesboro Public Library, Meeting Room A, at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend.

– News: DPVA announces veterans caucus, staff moves, Tuesday, 4:35 p.m. – News: Moran picks up prosecutor endorsement, Tuesday, 4:35 p.m. – News: House passes energy package, Tuesday, 4:35 p.m. – Video: California artist sues AP over image of Obama, Tuesday, 9:45 a.m.

We’re running a few minutes behind to get to the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner to hear former President Bill Clinton, and my wife, Crystal, is at wit’s end. We’d spent the sunny, springlike afternoon with my college roommate and his wife in Richmond and taken our swanky dinner clothes with us to change there instead of being…

– News: Voter-restoration bill passes Virginia Senate, Monday, 7:40 p.m. – News: Shannon earns AG endorsements, Monday, 7:22 p.m. – News: House GOP talks up transportation-funding plan, Monday, 7:22 p.m. – News: Moran picks up endorsement of former Democratic Governors’ Association director, Monday, 2:45 p.m. – News: Poll suggests support for stimulus, Monday, 2:45 p.m….

– News: VCU gets TV time for BracketBusters, Monday, 7:25 p.m. – News: JMU softball picked second in preseason CAA poll, Monday, 7:25 p.m. – Video: AP Sports Monday-Lakers beat Cavs, more, Monday, 9:45 a.m. – Video: UVa. men’s lacrosse 2009 season preview, Monday, 9:45 a.m.

Former President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker at Saturday’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Richmond. AFP editor Chris Graham was on hand for the annual Democratic Party of Virginia event and chronicles the high points of the speech on the future of the Democratic Party. Length: 23:54.