Southwest Blogs

• Health Insurer Wellpoint in Regulatory Trouble

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  Columbia Journalism Review is reporting that according to a Bloomberg News story, Wellpoint, the nation’s second largest insurance company in revenue, was slapped with a sanction from CMS, the organization in the government tasked with running the Medicare Services (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). CMS released a letter to Bloomberg [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:26am EST
  by Mark Brooks

• SBE Tells Know Campaign to Disclose Source of Voter Data

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  The Know Campaign, which had planned on a mass mailing to voters in Virginia before this years elections, has been told by the State Board of Elections to identify the source of the mailing list by December 3, 2009. SBE officials said they would turn the case over to the [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:18am EST
  by Mark Brooks

• Here’s That Redistribution of Wealth that Bill Osl Despises

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  Bill Osl, who is currently trying to borrow money as fast as he can to keep Cumberland County solvent, complained to Congressman Tom Perriello at the town hall meeting in Cumberland in August that he wants Congress to stop all that redistribution of wealth and socialism stuff. I guess he means [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:37pm EST
  by Mark Brooks

• What? Burger King Was Busy?

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  Reportedly, supporters of real estate developer and candidate for Congress from the Fifth District Laurence Verga munched roast beef sandwiches and curly fries, as he talked to them about his candidacy on Thursday. Brian McNeil of the Daily Progress reports that Verga stated that he would never raise taxes, serve no [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:05am EST
  by Mark Brooks

• Koch Industries-Funded AFP Holds Rally in Farmville

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  Earlier this week, the huge expensive bus that Americans for Prosperity (no link, get your own) uses for their ‘rallies’ pulled into Farmville after a day of touring the 5th Congressional District. About a quarter-mile from the actual office of the congressman, the bus parked in a commuter lot on [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:00am EST
  by Mark Brooks

• TV Commercial to Thank Rep. Tom Perriello in Roanoke

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  Americans United for Change is broadcasting this video starting tomorrow in the Roanoke television and cable markets.     more about “Exclusive: TV Commercial to Thank Rep…“, posted with vodpod   [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:08pm EST
  by Mark Brooks

• How Can You Tell Robert Hurt is Running? He’s Gone Teabag Lite

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  Brian McNeil, of the Charlottesville Daily Progress, wrote an article about some of the reactions to Tom Perriello’s vote for the health care bill on Saturday. Even better than the article are the comments section, where teabaggers abound with the usual misinformation and hair-on-fire pronouncements with little or no basis [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:41am EST
  by Mark Brooks

• Have These People Forgotten Where They are Running for Office?

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  If you look closely, you can see the GOPAC address in this browser screen shot. H/T Adam Feiler. UPDATE: HD-21 exact advertisement for the GOP candidate there. See Vivian for more. [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 8:12pm EDT
  by Mark Brooks