This year has been a year for running great Republican candidates across the entire state, but especially in Northern Virginia. We’ve been especially successful in our special elections, and I’m hoping that our trend continues as we’ve got a school board special election coming up in the Mason District (to [...]
The Roanoke Times editorialized today in favor of the Know Campaign’s guilt-based GOTV campaign, and I couldn’t agree more. That was the conservative group who was looking to send out mailers telling people which of their neighbors have voted in recent elections. The SBE was upset, as were many [...]
The Fairfax Times got it right in its recent editorial ("One Size Fits All") on moving local elections to November.
The money quote:
"... Frankly, we're not sure why this decision has been so difficult to make. ...
In late 2009, with every municipality between Herndon and Hampton Roads'" [...]
In the political poker equivalent of a call and an all-in raise, Falls Church City Mayor Robin Gardner last night proposed a modification to the November local election ordinance which would move the effective date of the change to November 2012 and provide that no council member whose [...]
Falls Church City changed its local elections in 1973 from June to May in response to an administrative change made in Richmond. Moving local elections was done by city council ordinance, not by public referendum, and it did not result in partisan elections or the extension of any [...]
The state of Virginia has said it will no longer subsidize local elections held in May. Moving Falls Church City local elections to November would dramatically increase voter turnout and would save city taxpayers approximately $60,000 each local election cycle.
Opponents of moving local elections argue moving local elections to the [...]
Ha, just kidding, but didn't I write something just like this the other day?...the deficit scolds have come back into their own, decrying any policy that actually involves spending money.
The Wall St. Journal reports that a conservative rancher named Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo took the Honduran presidency in elections Sunday, five months after the country’s last elected president was forced out of the country at [...]
Measured objectively, the issue of whether or not to move Falls Church City local elections from May to November is rather straightforward. Moving the elections will double or triple voter turnout and save city taxpayers an estimated $60,000 in each local election year (out of a total city [...]
The Virginia election results were certified tonight by the State Board of Elections and there were no particular surprises.
Bob McDonnell still won in a landslide. House Republicans still picked up six seats.
However, one of those House seats is going to take a little longer being finalized [...]
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 [...]
