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State Sen. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic nominee for governor, today received the endorsement of the Virginia Professional Fire Fighters. Sen. Deeds stood with firefighters, other emergency responders and public safety officials at a press conference at the Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort in Virginia Beach. The VPFF, headquartered in Richmond, is the leading advocate in Virginia…
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Welcome back to work. I’ve heard from Martha. She says that life is much quieter on her vineyard since you left. I have also heard that you have a big speech tonight. More about that later. But first, I wish to thank you for your big accomplishments so far during your first term. Which, of…
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The Democratic National Committee today released a new television ad set to run on national and District of Columbia cable stations, and in 10 Republican congressional districts, blasting the Republican Party for voting earlier this year to abolish Medicare and for its decades long hostility towards the health-care program for our nation’s seniors.
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Monday, Sept. 7 Remarks by President Obama at AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Cincinnati! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you, Ohio! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you, labor! (Applause.) All-righty. It is good to be back in Cincinnati. (Applause.) It’s good to be back in Ohio. (Applause.) It’s good to be back among great friends,…
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Today the Creigh Deeds gubernatorial campaign released a wave of paid media aimed at informing voters of the out-of-the-mainstream views and record of Republican Bob McDonnell. The campaign released a new radio ad running on Northern Virginia radio, a new website and a large-scale Google and banner advertising campaign.
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“Congratulations on being named the Valley’s Favorite News Reporter.” “Huh?” Some news reporter I am. The announcement was in the Friday, Aug. 28 News Virginian, in the paper’s annual Valley’s Favorites section, and I find out about it today at the high-school cross-country meet at Augusta Expoland.
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Monica Goodling. That’s what a Bob McDonnell gubernatorial term means. Remember Monica? The 1999 graduate of Regent University who was a top aide to Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez? Sure, you do. She’s the lawyer from the class at the former Christian Broadcasting Network University School of Law that had 60 percent of its…
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It wasn’t that long ago that Bob McDonnell was bragging about the grad-school thesis that he wrote 20 years ago at the age of 34 as being a blueprint for GOP action on welfare policy. Now he’s wishing he hadn’t brought up the thesis, since discovered in the Regent University library and shared with the…
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My friends on the other side of Main Street are making my life difficult. How they are is in an op-ed in today’s News Virginian that cites a New York Times article and a purported Barack Obama 2008 endorser as raising critical points about the Obama-Democratic push for health-care reform.
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Virginia sophomore guard Sylven Landesberg (Flushing, N.Y.) is one of 50 players named as preseason candidates for the 2009-10 John R. Wooden Award All-American Team and Player of the Year trophy. The preseason candidates were announced Wednesday (Aug. 19) by Richard “Duke” Llewellyn, Wooden Award Chairman and founder.
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