Friday, May 17, 2013
Chopra spoke with Patch Thursday afternoon after a campaign appearance at the Greenspring Retirement Community in Springfield.
Aneesh Chopra, one of two Democrats running for Virginia's Lt. Gov. seat, wants to reverse controversial legislation backed by Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli - the Republican gubernatorial nominee for Governor. "We would turn back on the ultrasound bill, on the TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) regulations, the voter ID Bills," said Chopra in an interview with Patch Thursday. "I would actively work with the Governor and Attorney General to institute the executive order on anti discrimination at the workplace based on a whole range of issues, including your sexual orientation," he said. Chopra spoke with Patch for about 20 minutes after making a campaign appearance at the Grenspring …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Lorton Democrats met the candidates for Virginia Governor, Lt. Governor and Attorney General at Pane e Vino in Lorton on Wednesday night.
Terry McAuliffe, Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, painted his Republican opponent Ken Cuccinelli as a ideologue on Wednesday night in Lorton. Specifically, McAuliffe focused on abortion. "I'm running against a guy who has a social, ideological agenda," said McAuliffe of Cuccinelli, the state Attorney General. "He has said that it is his goal to see abortion disappear in the United States of America." McAuliffe, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, spoke to about 50 members of the Mount Vernon District Democratic Committee at Lorton's Pane e Vino. Other attendees included Lt. Governor candidate Aneesh Chopra and Attorney General candidates Sen. Mark Herring and Justin Fairfax. The final Democratic candidates …
Sunday, May 12, 2013
ABC News: About half as many Virginians vote in gubernatorial elections as in presidential years.
Anyone familiar with Terry McAuliffe knows he can tell a good story. The one he told Thursday in Arlington, at George Mason's campus as he was wrapping up a five-day tour of the state, was about this past November. It was Election Day, and McAuliffe, at the request of the campaigns of Barack Obama and Tim Kaine, was asked to head to a polling station in Henrico County, where voters were still waiting in a long line as darkness fell. He said he went there and handed out coffee, hot chocolate and hand warmers. And everyone got to vote. And then he asked everyone in the room to mobilize for this year's election. [McAuliffe: Reform Virginia's Standards of Learning Tests] Turnout, often, is key. But now more than ever that isn't lost on …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Terry McAuliffe leads with registered voters, but Cuccinelli leads with likely voters, according to a new poll from Marist.
The race between Virginia's Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat businessman Terry McAuliffe is neck-and-neck, according to a new poll released Wednesday. The NBC News/Marist poll shows McAuliffe getting 43 percent support from registered voters, slightly ahead of Cuccinelli’s 41 percent. But McAuliffe, who will make a campaign stop in Arlington Thursday, trailed Cuccinelli among likely voters 42 percent to 45 percent. The NBC/Marist poll follows a Washington Post poll, published Saturday, that showed Cuccinelli with a slender 46 to 41 percent edge over McAuliffe among all Virginia voters and a significant 51 to 41 percent lead among those who say they’re certain to cast ballots in November. Together, the polls show an …
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The Virginia Senate Democratic leader spoke to the Springfield Civic Association on Tuesday night.
Virginia will be "screwed" if Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is elected governor this fall, said state Senate Democratic Leader Dick Saslaw (D-35th) to Patch after a community meeting in Springfield on Tuesday night. "I like Ken personally, but he doesn't believe in science," said Saslaw to the Springfield Civic Association. "He just doesn't." Saslaw referred to when Cuccinelli, in 2010, requested the emails and files of a former professor at the University of Virginia, who received state grants to study global warming. "For Ken there's no climate change," said Saslaw to Patch. "We're looking at being screwed. How are you going to recruit top-notch talent? What Nobel Prize winner would come to this state when the governor …
Monday, March 18, 2013
It was a who's who of the party faithful...
Virginia Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-11th) hosted more than 800 guests, including dozens of local politicians, on Sunday for his 19th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Fete at the Kena Shriners Temple in Fairfax. At $40 a person the event is one of the largest campaign fundraisers Connolly holds every year. "It is time we clean house in Virginia," said Connolly to the audience. "Elections matter, and every day I am reminded of the effects of the 2010 elections. It is not OK to leave billions of dollars on the table and 300,000-to-400,000 Virginians go uninsured because the idealogues don't want to expand Medicaid." Terry McAuliffe, Virginia's Democratic candidate for governor, said that his race will be focused on job creation. "I have a …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Does the commonwealth need another name on the ballot?
Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling took himself out of Virginia's race for governor last week, leaving, at least for now, what's shaping up to be a two-person race. The choice for the Old Dominion's next governor, seven months before Election Day, seems to have boiled down to presumptive Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli, the state's socially conservative attorney general, against likely Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a McLean businessman. The Republican Party of Virginia will hold its convention on May 17 and 18 in Richmond to formally select its nominee. Democrats go to the polls on June 11 to cast their ballots in several races, including governor and lieutenant governor. …
Friday, March 15, 2013
Tell us what you think!
The Commonwealth of Virginia has a choice - expand Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) or not. Doing so would provide $21 billion over seven years and health insurance for at least 400,000 of Virginia's uninsured, and the program would be fully funded by the Feds for the first three years and then decline to 90 percent in 2020. Governor McDonnell recently wrote to the Obama administration that no agreement has been reached to expand Medicaid. “Some media outlets and elected officials have labeled this [the compromise agreement] as approving Medicaid expansion in Virginia. This is absolutely incorrect,” he wrote. McDonnell appointed a bipartisan panel of 10 Virginia legislators to determine the issue…
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Terry McAuliffe said he disagreed with parts of bill but thought supporting the compromise that passed the Senate on Saturday was crucial.
Terry McAuliffe, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, came to Arlington Tuesday to praise the work of Virginia's Republican Governor Bob McDonnell. McAuliffe, the Democrat hoping to succeed McDonnell, said he spent hours on the phone calling members of both parties urging them to support a transportation compromise, which ultimately passed this weekend in the hours before the 2013 General Assembly session ended. "When you work on these major projects, it's not about a partisan agenda," McAuliffe told about a half-dozen reporters at a news conference on the 15th floor of the Sheraton Pentagon City. "This was a big deal. Was this a legacy item for Governor McDonnell? You bet it was." The event was designed to paint Republican …
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
News reports say fundraiser for McAuliffe, Democrat running for governor in Virginia, is set for March 13.
Former President Bill Clinton will headline a fundraiser March 13 in New York for Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chair and electric car entrepreneur who is making a second run for governor of Virginia, according to a recent report by the New York Daily News. McAuliffe, 56, a resident of McLean, was defeated by State Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Bath) in the Democratic primary in 2009 in a previous run for the governor's seat. So far, McAuliffe faces Republican Ken Cuccinelli, 44, Virginia Attorney General, in the governor's race. There's a possibility that Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, 55, could still get into the race as an independent; he's told supporters to expect some sort of an announcement March 14. The election is in …
Beck Lomax
6:14 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
Pot calling the kettle black. Mere identification with a political party equals ideological agenda. By definition, all parties have agendas and we are going to hear about it for the next several months at the expense of real news reporting. Vote independently, lemmings! more ›