Water: The City of Virginia Beach supplies clean water directly to my home at a cost of $0.009 [...]
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Hampton Roads Editor
Water: The City of Virginia Beach supplies clean water directly to my home at a cost of $0.009 [...]
Louisiana's Sen. Mary Landrieu was presented with the facts surrounding offshore drilling at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last week. First, she accused those testifying against drilling of lying. Then standing in front of a large poster of the flaming Australian oil platform, she exclaimed "The fact" [...] Here is McWaters, who in another of his daily mailers, talks about "decreasing the size and scope of government and cutting costs". Yet he touts the [...]
Republicans for Environmental Protection (I know... quite the oxymoron!) issued the following press release which is simply too good to not just re-post as is:
Palinology: A Dinosaur Energy Policy
During last year's presidential campaign, Sarah Palin presented herself as an expert on energy. Her new book includes [...]
He'll supposedly work to govern from the middle and leave the rightwing kook stuff (that he no less supports) to' [...]
Things have gotten ugly, and McWaters seems to think it can be won by being the best at beating up a significant percentage of [...]
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative wants to build the largest coal plant in Virginia in the Hampton Roads region. On Monday, Nov. 23rd, the Surry County Planning Commission is holding a public hearing on whether to grant local zoning approval for this controversial plant and allow ODEC to amend the [...] 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
BE PART OF HISTORY!!!!!!
Join the VBDC for 2010 and participate in the election of new Officers fro the 2010-2011 term. Dues can be mailed to the address on the form and are due by December 9, 2010. Make the Beach Blue. Elect more Democrats. Get involved. It's' [...]
Then let's draft it in the form of a petition and get every VB Democrat out there to sign it. We'll then deliver it to our Republican delegation and when they' [...]
1. The number of progressives in Virginia Beach continues to grow and is nearing the' [...]
Always knew there was something wrong about Sen. Frank Wagner.
Rumor has it that the glowing Frank here is asserting pressure on VB Mayor Sessoms to overturn the City's resolution opposed to uranium mining in Virginia.
Mr. Glow Man here has been so far successful in getting a state [...]
Jeff McWaters is CEO of AMERIGROUP, "a Fortune 600" company. (I thought it was Fortune 500... weird...)
Does his company offer health and life insurance benefits to the domestic partners of his [...]
Congressman Glenn Nye will participate in a "Community Discussion" on Saturday, November 21, 10:30am-12:30pm at the Enoch Baptist Church, 5641 Herbert Moore Rd., in Virginia Beach.
Please be on time. Index cards will be provided at entry (10:30) and you will have until 10:50 to have cards turned in [...]
Why did we work so hard to elect Democrats?
[...]
I'm not so alarmed by his appointing the typical suspects (Thelma Drake, Tom Davis,' [...]
Teabaggers in Rep. Tom Perriello's district were planning a tea party where they would burn Perriello and Pelosi in effigy. But then progressive blogs got a hold of the story and caused these effigy burning plans to be shut down! Bwaaaa!!!
From The Plum Line:
Looks like [...]
Please take the time to urge Gov. Kaine to sign an Executive Order prior to leaving office to automatically restore the voting rights for all ex-felons once they have completed their prison terms or completed any parole.
The bottom line is this: Former felons - people who have served their [...]
The Washington Post reports that our best hope for a pick up has bailed.
Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Moody E. "Sonny" Stallings, [...]
Tonight, the House of Representatives will be taking a vote on a very complex bill and a very important issue for our country. We'" [...]
We now have no representation in Richmond. Instead we will be represented by ignorant lap dogs to Speaker Bill Howell who is now wetting his pants in anticipation of pushing through Bob McDonnell's rightwing agenda.
What pisses me [...]
The DPVA which greatly contributed to the fine mess we're in right now requires Virginia Beach Democrats to elect a chairman of their local committee every two' [...]
This is like watching the baton passed from one runner to the final leg in a relay race as they battle [...]
Bob McDonnell has appointed Virginia's largest corporate polluter aka Dominion's Fossil Fool Tom Farrell to his gubernatorial transition team.
Meanwhile our next Attorney General, someone charged with enforcement on environmental regulations, calls environmentalists "watermelons"... green on the outside and commie red on the inside.
Plus we lost the one [...]
I challenge you now to look Capt. John Bell in the face [...]
The House bill meets or exceeds all seven of his own stated principles for health care reform. He's running out of excuses to vote against it.
The CBO says the House bill is projected to [...]
Since 1989, Virginia has always elected a Governor of the party opposite the White House, regardless of presidential approval ratings.
Presidential approval ratings in Virginia are currently 51%, just slightly below the 52.6% in [...]
When Senator Creigh Deeds returns to Richmond in 2010 to serve in Virginia's General Assembly, he'll be working minus over a half dozen key Democratic delegates that served our progressive causes mightily. I want the faces of Joe Bouchard, Margi Vanderhye and David Poisson to haunt him and I' [...] 
A little over a week ago came the news of the plant closing in Franklin. The next morning Bob McDonnell was asked directly what can be done. His answer fell hollow. It was an answer right from his campaign's playbook. It left the listeners and those newly unemployed empty [...]
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