Wayne Turnage, chief of staff to Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, is a finalist to take on that same role in the Office of the President at Virginia Commonwealth University.
According to a notice sent out by the school, “one finalist has been invited back to VCU for further interviews,“ and [...]
If you tried to call Sen. Jim Webb’s office on the weekend the U.S. Senate voted to debate health-care legislation on the floor, and you got bumped to another senator’s voicemail, don’t take it personally.
Apparently, the Senate phone system was inundated with calls and lines were crossed.
One reader told [...]
Gov-elect Bob McDonnell will have the “Opportunity Virginia” political action committee as his personal political treasury while in office.
The Virginia Public Access Project spotted the filing with the Virginia State Board of Elections. Money raised through the PAC will allow McDonnell to support all of his political activities and [...]
Sen. Jim Webb has called for greater transparency in the health care debate and today he posted the Senate bill on his Web site—all 2,074 pages for your reading pleasure.
In mid-October, Webb asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to post the legislation and complete budget scores of the health [...]
He’s made it official: Del. David W. Marsden, D-Fairfax, is running for Sen. Ken Cuccinelli’s seat representing the 37th district.
Cuccinelli was elected Attorney General on Nov. 3 and will vacate his seat before he’s sworn in on Jan. 16.
Marsden has lived in Fairfax County since 1952 and has [...]
The Virginia House of Delegates’ Democratic and Republican caucuses each elected their leadership for the 2010 General Assembly session over the weekend.
The Republican caucus, strengthened after picking up at least five seats in the House this month, re-elected Speaker of the House William J. Howell, R-Stafford.
They also voted [...]
While Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th, defends his vote for the $1.2 trillion health-care overhaul, one group is coming to his aid with a new TV ad.
Americans United for Change, a group founded in 2005 to help defeat then-President George W. Bush’s effort to privatize Social Security, today released a 30-second [...]
Virginia Gov-elect Bob McDonnell said this morning that he hasn’t read the entire health care bill narrowly passed out of the House of Representatives last night but that the “public option does not seem to be something that’s gonna help us in Virginia.”
“I think there [are] legitimate issues of [...]
Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli announced his transition team leaders this morning in a conference call with reporters.
He has tapped former Attorneys General Andrew Miller, a Democrat, and Republican Richard Cullen, as well as former state GOP chairman Pat McSweeney, to help with the effort.
Miller, an unsuccessful [...]
Bob McDonnell held his first news conference as governor-elect this afternoon and announced a few members of his transition committee, including Tom Farrell, CEO of Dominion Resources.
Also on the team are Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling; Attorney General Bill Mims; Bobbie Kilberg, president of the Northern Virginia Technology Council; and Kay [...]
President Barack Obama called Gov-elect Bob McDonnell late this morning—reportedly a pleasant, 10 minute conversation.
“It was a nice,“ said McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin. “The president told him, ‘The first thing you do, make sure you thank your wife’.“
They also discussed some areas of agreement, including support for educational [...]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made a long-awaited entry into the Virginia governor’s race via an automated call to as many as 350,000 state residents urging them to vote.
The calls are among roughly 600,000 coordinated through The Virginia Faith and Freedom Coalition, an affiliate of Ralph Reed’s national group, according [...]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made a long-awaited entry into the Virginia governor’s race via an automated call to as many as 350,000 state residents urging them to vote.
The calls are among roughly 600,000 coordinated through The Virginia Faith and Freedom Coalition, an affiliate of Ralph Reed’s national group, according [...]
As poll margins widen, so do last-minute cash contributions to the campaigns for governor.
Republican Bob McDonnell brought in about $190,000 since Friday, while Democrat R. Creigh Deeds received $40,000.
The latest contributions only widen the gap in large donations—those of $5,000 or more—given to the campaigns since Oct. [...]
Republican Bob McDonnell has a 2:1 edge over his Democrat opponent R. Creigh Deeds on large donations reported between Oct. 21 and Wednesday.
According to the Virginia Public Access Project, McDonnell brought in $1.01 million during that time in contributions of $5,000 or more, which must be reported within 24 hours [...]
We’ve been following the last-minute, large-dollar campaign contributions today and just picked up this: a $25,000 check from Donald J. Trump to Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell, the frontrunner in the contest for governor.
The contribution, reported today to the State Board of Election, is the latest in a string of [...]
Not everything stays in Vegas.
In this case, $20,000 that landed early this week in Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bob McDonnell’s campaign coffers.
According to the State Board of Elections, the donation came from Dr. Miriam Adelson, an internist married to billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Sheldon, who ranked as the [...]
Not everything stays in Vegas.
In this case, $20,000 that landed early this week in Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bob McDonnell’s campaign coffers.
According to the State Board of Elections, the donation came from Dr. Miriam Adelson, an internist married to billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Sheldon, who ranked as the [...]
Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor Jody Wagner released a new ad today claiming her opponent, Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, put his work as a health insurance executive over state responsibilities by attending “just 6 percent of his state meetings.“
But Bolling’s camp shot back saying he doesn’t work with [...]
This ain’t Deeds Country. Just call it the “Barbershop Tour.“
A quartet of Richmond’s African-American state lawmakers will canvass River City’s barbershops and beauty salons on Saturday, as part of the ramped-up effort to drive urban support for the democratic state senator from rural Bath County.
Election experts believe Deeds needs to [...]
Here’s Gov. Tim Kaine on Sheila C. Johnson openly mocking Democrat Creigh Deeds for his stammer:
“It was unfortunate,“ Kaine told reporters. “Sheila’s a friend and she apologized, and she said, “look I shouldn’t have done it.‘ And look, we all make mistakes.“
Kaine said he did not think the McDonnell campaign [...]
Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling is using his third TV commerical to attack his rival, Jody Wagner, as a tax-and-spend Democrat.
Bolling’s new 30-second says Wagner, a former Secretary of Finance under Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and treasurer under former Gov. Mark R. Warner “supported every tax increase for eight [...]
Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling is using his third TV commerical to attack his rival, Jody Wagner, as a tax-and-spend Democrat.
Bolling’s new 30-second says Wagner, a former Secretary of Finance under Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and treasurer under former Gov. Mark R. Warner “supported every tax increase for eight [...]
Jody Wagner, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, released her first TV ad in the general election campaign today—an introductory piece that talks about her work as a former Sec. of Finance and state treasurer.
Her Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, has at least one 30-second TV ad running. [...]
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is returning to Virginia lend support for his party’s nominee for governor, Bob McDonnell.
Jindal is scheduled to headline a McDonnell fundraiser tonight at the McLean house of home builder Dwight C. Shar. This marks Jindal’s second trip to Virginia to rally support for McDonnell, a [...]
A Walk on the Wilder Side
Gov. Tim Kaine has taken a walk on the Wilder side before. That is, the commonwealth’s outgoing chief executive has been in the position that current Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds now occupies. Waiting and wondering whether L. Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first elected African American [...]
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell today picked up the endorsement of the political action committee of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce.
In a release, NOVABizPAC, said McDonnell has demonstrated “stronger, more consistent support for the pro-business policy agenda and legislative priorities of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce.“
“Mr. McDonnell earned [...]
U.S. Sen. and former Virginia Gov. Mark R.Warner and former Republican state Sen. John Chichester this afternoon reaffirmed their support for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds, who stood with them to help pass the 2004 bipartisan budget agreement.
Republcian canddiate Bob McDonnell, then a legislator in the the House of Delegates [...]
Bob McDonnell’s thesis may be 20 years old, but Creigh Deeds wants it fresh in the minds of Virginia voters—especially Virginia’s FEMALE voters.
The Deeds campaign today launched three new ads—two of which deal directly McDonnell’s record as a delegate and the contents of his controversial 1989 graduate school thesis at [...]
Local real estate development firm owner Charlie Diradour is expected to launch a bid tomorrow for the Democratic nomination in the district now represented by House Republican whip Rep. Eric I. Cantor.
Diradour, a graduate of Trinity Episcopal School and Virginia Commonwealth University, plans to issue a formal statement tomorrow morning, [...]
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine had an eventful trip to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency this morning.
The SUV that Kaine was riding in, along with Sec. of Technology Leonard M. “Len” Pomata, Chief of Staff Wayne M. Turnage and others, was pulling into the parking lot at the Chester headquarters [...]
Former State Crime Commission director James Towey is offering House Speaker William J. Howell some summer reading.
Last week, Towey said he wants an investigation into a job controversy involving Del. Phillip A. Hamilton, R-Newport News, to include the delegate’s past dealings with the crime commission.
Towey—now running as a Democratic [...]
Mr. Schapiro reports from Shockoe Slip:
Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor, is hot and bothered—and it has nothing to do with that August weather.
Deeds told reporters this morning in Richmond that a Republican ad attacking him as a big spender mangles his record.
The ad, by the Republican Governors [...]
We just told you about Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds’ new radio ad, but now his Republican opponent, Bob McDonnell, has released a TV commercial touting his energy plan.
In the 30-second ad, which will start running tomorrow across the state except for pricey Northern Virginia, McDonnell says “new [...]
Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds is hoping a new radio ad featuring President Barack Obama will fire up some support for him among African American voters.
A new one-minute ad running in Richmond, Roanoke and Hampton Roads weaves sound bites from the speech Obama made at an early [...]
A familiar face could return to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency’s oversight board—just in time to pick a new agency chief.
A House-Senate committee is expected today to appoint someone to fill a vacancy on the board, which is made of both gubernatorial and legislative appointees.
Sources say Mary Guy [...]
Speaker of the House William J. Howell, R-Stafford, today called on Leonard M. “Len” Pomata, who is currently serving as both Sec. of Technology and interim head of the state’s info-tech agency, to relinquish one of his roles.
The request of Howell and other House Republicans follows an opinion from Attorney [...]
Planned Parenthood’s Virginia PAC has joined ranks with the Deeds campaign’s latest offensive against Bob McDonnell’s anti-abortion stance.
The organization today launched a new website, [www.BackwardsBobMcDonnell.com] to “educate voters about McDonnell’s real record on women’s health.“
Deeds earlier this week waded into the battle on the social issue in Annandale with [...]
For two months, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has been trying to put a positive spin on the VITA-Northrop Grumman flap—a story about big government, big business and big money that just doesn’t go away.
But today, the administration got the opportunity to talk about the state’s switch to a privately managed [...]
Tyler Whitley reports that Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell wants to get tougher on criminals.
Unveiling his public safety proposals today, McDonnell said he wants to increase the penalties for repeat drug dealers, including second-time offenders. He would increase penalties for people who prey on the elderly and toughen identity-theft laws.
The [...]
Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds is a driven politician—but perhaps not often enough.
During an online chat today at the Times-Dispatch, Deeds discussed a couple of recent driving infractions that occurred on holiday weekends when he gave his driver time off “to go home to his mother.“
Over Mother’s Day weekend [...]
Creigh Deeds said it up front: “I’m not the main event.“
It’s hard to be The Man, even if it is your fundraiser, when the President shows up. But the Man from Bath set the tone for the event at the the McLean Hilton—with tunes from his own iPod play list.
While [...]
Don’t worry, Gov. Tim Kaine is not leaving the state again. But he is leaving his Richmond office for a little R&R in Virginia Beach with the Kaine/Holton clan.
Kaine will spend the next week vacationing at Camp Pendleton, the gubernatorial beach side retreat, and squeeze in a round of golf. [...]
As Creigh Deeds preps for his stage time with President Barack Obama this evening, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate’s campaign released two new radio ads this afternoon targeting Hispanics and African Americans.
The bilingual Gov. Timothy M. Kaine recorded a spot in Spanish, saying Deeds is the only candidate “who supports giving [...]
As Creigh Deeds preps for his stage time with President Barack Obama this evening, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate’s campaign released two new radio ads this afternoon targeting Hispanics and African Americans.
The bilingual Gov. Timothy M. Kaine recorded a spot in Spanish, saying Deeds is the only candidate “who supports giving [...]
Teamsters President Jim Hoffa has cemented the union’s endorsement of R. Creigh Deeds for governor.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters—which represents 1.4 million workers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico—is pledging to throw full support in delivering a victory to Deeds, a state senator from Bath County, “and [...]
Terry McAuliffe got his clock cleaned by Creigh Deeds for the Democratic nomination for governor, but that’s not stopping McAuliffe from doing a good deed for his old foe.
Today, McAuliffe is circulating to supporters an e-mail imploring them to let the Republicans have it for their state party chairman’s suggestion [...]
Tyler Whitley reports:
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell said today he would not sign a bill that would seek to increase taxes to pay for road improvements.
In an online chat with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, McDonnell said now, in a bad economy, is not the time to raise taxes. [...]
Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th, is grazing for the farm vote.
He’s among the 50-some lawmakers who joined the revived bipartisan Congressional Dairy Farmers Caucus to advocate for the nation’s dairy farmers.
The group disbanded after the passage of the 2008 farm bill but came back together to address what members [...]
Creigh Deeds and Bob McDonnell, rivals for governor, aren’t the only Virginia candidates debating over debates.
Jody Wagner and Bill Bolling, opponents for lieutenant governor, are on the same page—kind of—when it comes to debates.
Wagner, a Democrat, and Bolling, a Republican seeking a second term as LG, indicated in separate statements [...]
