More and more, the best blog in Virginia Beach to go to for local VB City government goings on is Henry Ryto's blog, Avenging Archangel.
One of the leading environmentalists in this City told me that I need not be concerned for what was in the City's updated [...]
VB School Board chairman Dan Lowe plans to resign soon. He is the Bayside district rep. While all VB voters can vote for the Bayside district rep, that rep must reside in Bayside.
At-large school board rep (at-large meaning open to applicants citywide) Carolyn Weems likes [...]
In the special election to fill the seat of Republican State Senator Ken Stolle, Virginia Beach Republicans overwhelming voted in favor of successful businessman, Jeff McWaters. By a vote of 4,776 to 2,815, Jeff McWaters defeated City Councilwoman, Rosemary Wilson.
"I" [...]
If all that is involved is filing a form, then I'll do it. Methinks, however, [...]
Another question... the guy is a long-haired hippie with' [...]
All signs indicate that it will ultimately be the [...]
I am so trying hard to do this on Saturday! Spread the word! This is important!
From Chesapeake for Change's Pat Okerlund:
Community Organizer Training: Training to Win (National Training Weekend)
Please join us for a day of training on the community organizing methods that will be instrumental in helping to [...]
One came from Jody Wagner with the subject line "A chance to pick up a Virginia Senate seat". Considering that she is an 8th district resident and a connected Virginia Beach Democrat, I momentarily got excited.
One person I'm' [...]
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?
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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 [...] 
Debate winner
HAVING RECENTLY ATTENDED a Citizens Advisory Committee meeting at Bayside High School, I witnessed a debate between Del. Joe Bouchard and Dr. Chris Stolle. One of the issues they debated was the placement of wind turbines for energy off the coast of the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia [...]
GLBT state employees who have been protected from discrimination for eight years will suddenly be exposed to the risk of losing their jobs on that basis.
National health care reform will pass, but McDonnell will opt out of providing uninsured Virginians the choice of a public [...]
Virginia Beach ranks #10 in the world in terms of assets exposed to coastal flooding and vulnerability to climate change. According to an Ernst & Young survey, the top insurance risk in 2008 is climate change. Fifty-five percent of insurance companies in the mid-Atlantic area have stopped writing [...] 
The Virginian-Pilot is out with their endorsements in the Beach House races. Check it out here.
"Wow!" is all I can say about their endorsement of Joe Bouchard. I think they hit on all the fine points that make Joe Bouchard such a great legislator, proving all the more [...]
University of Virginia and Virginia Tech alumni: time for a moratorium on contributions. The endowments there are sufficient to self-fund almost all academic and research functions. Republican candidate Ron Villanueva called for universities to pay for their own programs in a public-private partnership; the state only maintaining public buildings.
From [...]
So says Sen. Louise Lucas and Del. Lionell Spruill. Via The Washington Post blog, we learned that Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell has released a radio ad targeted at the black community. The ad, which is being aired in Hampton Roads, mentions both former governor [...]
Terrific event yesterday as 80+ folks turned out to support our Virginia Beach Delegate Joe Bouchard. The community effort pulled together last night was not only testimony of great regard for Joe but also builds our entire community's understanding of the importance to get Joe Bouchard re-elected on Nov. [...] 
"If Chris Stolle and/or Villenueva are elected, they'll be seeing plenty of Jankowski next winter. His lobbying clients include Altria, parent company to tobacco giant Philip Morris USA, and Select Management Resources, a peddler of predatory car title loans", writes Christina Nuckols in the Sunday Forum section of today's [...] I'll take the "trying moments" over following our Governor "down a dead-end road" too. The Virginian-Pilot today endorsed Creigh Deeds for Governor.
"[Deeds] offers a political strategy rather than a substantive plan for" [...]
What gets to me most about both Chris and Ken Stolle is their sense of entitlement - that somehow the Virginia Beach world is their oyster. Just mention the word "Stolle" and doors are somehow supposed to automatically open.
As I mentioned before ("Chris Stolle Hasn't Done Shit for'" [...]
International Paper announced yesterday it will close its Franklin, Virginia mill in spring 2010. This will end the employment of 1,100. It is the largest of the company's North American closures idling some 1,600 nationwide. "These capacity shutdowns will not impact the company's ability to serve its customers." The [...] 
From the Virginia Beach Taxpayers Alliance:
The VBTA Board of Directors endorses Virginia Beach Police Captain John Bell for Sheriff. The voters of Virginia Beach have the opportunity to de-politicize the Sheriff's Department. Voters' strongest reason for voting for John Bell is the endorsements that his opponent has received from' [...]
So so so so exciting!!! President Obama will be coming to Norfolk's ODU to rally for Creigh Deeds on Tuesday, Oct. 27. So far I'm hearing 2pm and the Ted Constant Center as time and location.
So far I'm also hearing that it's a free but ticketed event. Don't' [...]
Big push coming down the home stretch for our Beach House races. Young Democrats from as far away as D.C. will be converging on Virginia Beach to do lots of canvassing on Saturday, Oct. 24. Launch is at 10am at the BB&T bank building, 5101 Cleveland Street (near the [...] 
"Watermelons" is what the kook that is Ken Cuccinelli calls environmentalists. "Green on the outside and red on the inside", he says. That's red as in commie red.
Check out Cuccinelli's answers to questions posed by William & Mary students last month:
Question 2: I guess my question is, if [...]
The characterization is Ron's choice. The only escape is that Villanueva was absent again. This time from a Virginia Beach City Council closed meeting last February where members angrily debated a pay cut. But only two members favored the idea when given the opportunity which could have saved city' [...]
On Tuesday, I saw T. Boone Pickens at the Norfolk Forum. He was pitching legislation (H.R. 1835) to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by converting all our 18-wheelers to natural gas.
On Wednesday, I watched the heartbreaking documentary Coal Country at the Naro Theater about [...]
From the Secretary of the Commonwealth:
"Section 1-505 of the Code of Virginia provides that the seals of the Commonwealth are deemed the property of the Commonwealth; and no persons shall exhibit, display, or in any manner utilize the seals or any facsimile or representation of the seals" [...]
Even the leadership of his own party understands the truth that illusory revenue schemes will not fund transportation. Delegate Bob Purkey (R-Virginia Beach), current Chairman of the Virginia House Finance Committee, proposes an increase in the gas tax and tolls to realistically meet the demands for transportation infrastructure maintenance [...]
Say no more...
"JODY WAGNER, Virginia's former secretary of finance, is the sort of Democrat that helped cement the Old Dominion's status as among the cleanest, best managed and most business-friendly states in the country. She is easily the better choice as Virginia's next lieutenant governor and would represent a" [...]
Recently, the Hampton Roads area has been blessed with events featuring much celebrated and lauded speakers who included in their remarks alarm bells concerning climate change and the affects of sea level rise on Virginia Beach especially.
On Tuesday last week, the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce presented Dr. [...]
Bob McDonnell has attended fewer Virginia Beach Republican breakfasts this year than John Bell, the local Democratic Candidate for Sheriff. Just as well this morning, with its lowest attendance in months. McDonnell's focus was on an appeal to veterans at a VFW Post. That didn't work out so' [...] Help get his ad on the air! Go to WakeUpBob.com to view another ad and to contribute via ActBlue TODAY!
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"There is no question that for the GLBT community and Virginians who believe in equality for all, there is only one sensible choice for Governor, and that choice is Creigh Deeds," stated Jon Blair, Equality Virginia PAC's CEO yesterday. "While no candidate is perfect, including Senator Deeds, Virginians must" [...] 
The Human Rights Campaign yesterday announced their endorsement of Creigh Deeds for Governor. From their press release:
Said HRC President Joe Solmonese: "Electing Creigh Deeds must be a top priority for all fair-minded Virginians. Senator Deeds will continue the work of Governors Warner and Kaine to eliminate barriers to equality" [...]
Responsibility is not selective. Making claims invites scrutiny. When those claims are misleading, being called out is not a personal attack. It is accountability, closely related to responsibility. Having a lobbyist come to your defense will not provide succor. Nor, apparently, will relying on Chris Stolle's fidelity.
"He is" [...]
Stolle is knocking Bouchard for following up on a Republican idea first hatched by none other than VB's own Sen. Frank Wagner.
Without [...]
They will deliver results of a new survey to Rep. Glenn Nye's office in Virginia Beach today.
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RPV favorite Chris Stolle who can't raise money on his own, but is happy for handouts, is the PAC rehab project; then there is the infamous Delegate Hamilton, a jobs program for one; and the city councilman who would set a legislative absence record; plus the napping Delegate Purkey.
Each' [...]
Republican candidates throughout Virginia to include VB's Chris Stolle are running with Bob McDonnell's "Drill Baby Drill" visions-of-sugar-plums jobs plan. Bob's exclusive source for those alleged Virginia offshore drilling revenues and job creation is Dr. Jim Koch, President Emeritus of Old Dominion University who on September 29, 2009 explained [...] 
The Port Authority graphic within this so-called "jobs plan" document epitomizes the vapid Chris Stolle. It's clear as mud and not-so orginial. (Click on image for larger screen capture.)
Geez, you'd think the $ quarter mil paid to buy this seat for Republicans could have done better. But' [...]
If anyone deserves to be re-elected to the General Assembly it is Joe Bouchard.
He has worked tirelessly for the residents of his district. Joe is a creative thinker and has the critical problem-solving skills needed to tackle the many complex issues facing our state.
He has kept the lines of [...]
Update: Over 100 folks are expect for this fun event tonight. Shewling adds Henri L. Parks and Gaylene Kanoyton to the Host list. See you tonight!
Yesterday I had the pleasure of chatting about this event with the dynamo that is Shewling Moy Wong. More and more, the Oct. 24 [...]
Excuses, excuses
Re 'Rivals for Beach seat knock each other's records,' Hampton Roads, Oct. 3: Ron Villanueva, candidate for Virginia Beach's 21st House seat, said his job and family responsibilities make it difficult to attend or be on time [...]
Despite my disagreement with Virginia Beach Mayor Will Sessoms that the junk science of the Heartland Institute warranted even a nano second of time and consideration, its representative was still given a spot on the Mayor's Alternative Energy Task Force agenda last night. For some less than pure reason, [...] 
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Yesterday, on day #46 of the devastating oil spill that continues to dump oil into Australian seas, the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter released images of that spill plotted off Virginia's coast.
The images were commissioned from [...]
Here's something forwarded to me from a friend of a friend. It's from 2nd district Repug candidate (one of the dozen or so) Scott Taylor's 
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