Laurence Verga, candidate for the GOP nomination in the Fifth Congressional District, has penned editorials for Red State and Virginia Tomorrow recently lamenting that the NRCC appears to be going four-square behind State Sen. Robert Hurt for the nomination. Verga wastes no time in [...]
By a vote to 11-0, the congressional district chairs of the Republican Party of Virginia have Second Congressional District Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia decided that the nominee in the second congressional of the district shall be decided by canvass on May 8, 2010. [...]
Two more endorsements rolled in today for Jeff McWaters in the Virginia 8th District State Senate GOP nomination fight between him and Virginia Beach City Councilwoman Rosemary Wilson.
The south Hampton Roads paper, the Virginian-Pilot, endorsed McWaters today.
“McWaters can’t be expected to immediately fill the void [...]
When Virginia closed 19 of its 42 rest areas … including the one pictured above … the GOP candidate for Governor … who is now the Gov.-elect … pledged to reopen the rest stops within 90 days of taking office … just a friendly reminder [...] Things have gotten ugly, and McWaters seems to think it can be won by being the best at beating up a significant percentage of [...]
In this episode of Virginia Politics On-Demand, Rosemary Wilson, candidate seeking the GOP nomination for Virginia’s 8th Senate Seat, explains why she’s the best candidate to help Bob McDonnell take on our most pressing challenges in Richmond.
Drop me an email at vpod@bearingdrift.com with your [...]
Yesterday, the Jeff McWaters’ campaign for State Senate released a very interesting campaign email that seems like they might know something the rest of us don’t.
Chris LaCivita (who recently aided Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli and was the media advisor for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth) appealed [...]
The dates to select the GOP nominees in the 8th and 37th Senate Districts have been set.
In the 37th, Marianne Honrniko, Will Nance and Steve Hunt have until Dec. 1 to convince Republicans that they’re the best candidate to succeed Attorney General-elect Ken [...]
Virginia U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8), who as recently as two weeks ago said that we needed to elect State Sen. Creigh Deeds to governor to protect us from the GOP’s “Taliban ticket”, has a challenger: Matthew Berry.
Moran, whose public service in the 111th [...]
Freshmen congressmen Glenn Nye (D-2) and Tom Perriello (D-5) both defeated incumbent Republicans in 2008, but are high on the national target list by the GOP in 2010.
Both have made themselves vulnerable, but in different ways, for the coming election.
In a nutshell, Nye has nearly cast [...]
Republicans celebrated a clean sweep of Virginia's top elected offices Tuesday night as returns trickled in slowly from a close New Jersey's governor's race and a special House election in upstate New York.
As the GOP sought to send a warning shot to Democrats in Washington by scoring big [...]
Bobby Mathieson can’t answer a direct question. Joe Bouchard has become a tool for the left. Paula Miller still hasn’t proposed a bill in Richmond. And, Robin Abbott can’t have her law-firm payoff Steve Shannon fast enough.
And that’s just in Hampton Roads. And these were [...]
Newt Gingrich, call your office:
The Republican in a New York House race that has become a symbol of the divisions within the GOP endorsed her former Democratic rival Sunday, a sharp snub to the third-party conservative who forced her out of the race.
Dede Scozzafava, who'd been chosen by local' [...]
