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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How do we describe Paul Galanti? Former POW-turned-Swift Boat critic of John Kerry? That would be one way. Another would be strong Mark Warner supporter who was appointed by Warner and then reappointed by Tim Kaine to serve on the board of the Virginia Department of Veterans’ Services. Galanti, who…
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Op-ed by Rick Gray Timing is everything. Four years ago, on Christmas night, I flew to Manchester, N.H., to spend a week of my precious winter holiday knocking on doors for Howard Dean. This year, I’ve slapped a McCain sticker on my bumper and agreed to write this piece. Let me explain. I’m a liberal,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I knew that Brett Hayes and John Martin had a couple of things in common when I set up my interviews with them for this week’s Top Story on “Republicans for Obama.” The headline gives the two key ones away – both are Republicans, and both are actively supporting Democratic…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Believe it or not, I am supporting Obama,” the e-mail began. And honestly, I didn’t believe it, not at first. Surely Brett Hayes was pulling my chain. We’ve known each other for years, and got to know each other a lot better during my brief city-council campaign in…
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Fear and Loathing on the Trail column by Chris Graham [email protected] An online petition is drawing attention to Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte’s flip-flop on the New G.I. Bill. Virginia Veterans for Obama co-director Terron Sims has initiated the petition drive to raise issue with a campaign mailer sent out by the Goodlatte congressional office…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] Poor Mike. Our sales manager is a hardcore Republican. Makes life kinda tough working for the area’s progressive news source. So Mike walks back to my office this afternoon after getting off the phone with a local GOP friend (actually a friend of both of ours – hey, I can…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] Something I got in the mail from Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte the other day caught my attention, though not, I’d bet, in the way it was intended. “A NEW G.I. BILL FOR OUR VETERANS,” the headline blared at me, with a U.S. flag in the background and a…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nomination candidate Jon Bowerbank is busy assembling his staff for his ’09 run. Bowerbank announced yesterday that he has retained the Northern Virginia-based Maverick Strategies to serve in an advisory role to his campaign. Members of the Maverick firm include Jessica Vanden Berg, who managed Jim Webb’s…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro Writer’s Group meeting set for Saturday morning at Stone Soup Books and Cafe will feature a familiar face – and badge. Waynesboro police officer Mark Kearney will lead the monthly meeting at 10 a.m. at Stone Soup in Downtown Waynesboro. Kearny is the founder of the Book ‘Em…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Nearly a trillion dollars. That’s what Congress and the Bush administration have committed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past seven years with the passage this week of another supplemental wartime spending bill. It’s “wasteful spending,” said Sam Rasoul, the Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nominee.
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