Howie Lind won the election for the 10th District Chair in 2010, taking over from outgoing Chairman Jim Rich. The election of that chair was a little contentious and occured amid some other controversy which the 10th District appears to be good at generating. Overall, however, in the almost 2 years of Mr. Lind’s stewardship, [...]
In 2007 when the previous Virginia senate elections were held, the Democrats held a 4 seat majority in the 40-seat senatorial house of Virginia’s General Assembly. Tradition and rules in the VA senate say that committee assignments should reflect the basic makeup of the senate’s division in terms of how many seats are accorded to [...]
Yes, I know, it’s become de rigueur since the 2000 elections to nearly immediately question the results of close elections, particularly when you don’t like who won. However, there might be something to the story, picking up steam, that Mitt Romney might not have taken Iowa like it 1st appeared. As Virginia Virtucon tells us, [...]
I’ll be posting more about this later, when I’ve had the chance to actually read up on the ruling, but I’ve got 2 thoughts on the matter immediately. First, I commend the LG for wanting to settle this matter now, before the Dems use it to grind work in the GA to a halt – [...]
As just about everyone who’s paying attention to the news knows by now, the field of contenders for the GOP presidential nomination has been narrowed to 2 in the Commonwealth of Virginia as only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have managed to get onto the ballot. Gingrich, Perry, Bachman, Huntsman, Santorum, and everyone else who’s [...]
Well, it’s been an eventful day! Earthquakes, the demonstration that our emergency response systems out here near the nation’s capital just ain’t up to the task, and the primary elections in Virginia. The earthquake is getting wall-to-wall coverage on the legacy media outlets as well as in the blogs/tweet/Facebook updates and the emergency response systems [...]
Well, today’s the day those primary candidates have been talking about for the past month or so. Those Districts in Virginia that have multiple party members vying for the same candidate’s chair in the general elections have a decision to make today and if you live in one of them you should take the time [...]
It is a fact of political life that you run into sharp elbows during a campaign. And while everyone calls for a “clean campaign” and complains bitterly about how “dirty” some campaigns run, it is also a fact that a significant percentage of the electorate is actually swayed by such dirty campaigns. Neither of those [...]
Perhaps it’s a little bit that I don’t have a contested primary in my precinct or district this year, but it’s a bit more that I can’t stand to see sloppy thinking and argumentation in situations where Republicans are facing off against Republicans. As I’ve mentioned, there are a number of contested primaries in neighboring [...]
On August 23rd there will be primaries held for the State Senate and Delegate seats in those Districts where the party nominations are contested. We’re not having one where I live but over in the 10th District there’s actually 3 Republicans jousting for the spot. One of them is John Whitbeck and I just got [...]
