Chris Runion represents a House of Delegates district that stretches from the Blue Ridge to the West Virginia state line.
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Ben Cline whined to the City Elders about redistricting, because it means his job
Bad news for Ben Cline: per Louise Lucas, the 10-1 congressional map is the only one that the State Senate has the votes to pass.
Tracy Pyles: A way to make an ICE detention facility work for Augusta County
The townspeople of Craigsville, after initially objecting to the Augusta Correctional Center, embraced for decades the subsequent jail.
What is Ben Cline trying to say here about a proposed Augusta County ICE facility?
Our MAGA Sixth District congressman, good ol’ Ben Cline, commented on the proposed Augusta County ICE detention facility at something called a City Elders town hall in Staunton last week.
Augusta County, 73 percent Trump in 2024, on proposed ICE facility: NIMBY
Augusta Countyans likes them some Donald Trump, but when it comes to Trump’s signature initiative, putting brown-skinned people in detention centers, while folks here are all for putting brown-skinned people in detention centers, by gawd, just not here, OK?
Youngkin tried to rush sale of Augusta Correctional Center on his final day in office
Glenn Youngkin, on his final full day as governor, appeared to try to rush the sale of the former Augusta Correctional Center property to a mysterious New York City-registered LLC.
Abigail Spanberger, no surprise at all, endorses Beth Macy for Congress
It would have surprised me if Abigail Spanberger hadn’t signed on to back Beth Macy’s run for a seat in Congress in our part of the state.
Cline, McGuire mum on shooting of Alex Pretti: Silence is complicity
Our local Republican congressmen, Ben Cline and John McGuire, have yet to utter a word publicly, either way, addressing the shooting of an ICU nurse by ICE thugs in Minneapolis on Saturday.
Jack Smith pantsed Ben Cline in front of Congress and the TV-viewing world
Ben Cline, who fancies himself a bulldog lawyer, had his bits snipped by actual bulldog lawyer Jack Smith, but we knew that was going to happen, the second the TV cameras panned to Cline.
Ben Cline thinks he’s going to be a top congressional MAGA next year: Who gets to tell him?
Ben Cline, landslided in his 2024 bid for the chair post in the Republican Study Committee, thinks he has the inside track to being named the chair next year.