Archives for June 2014
Breaking: Colgan To Step Aside
25 June 2014 | 29th VA Senate | 7 Comments
We’ve been waiting, and waiting, and finally the time has come. The Gainesville Times is reporting that Senator Chuck Colgan is not going to seek re-election in 2015.
There are a lot of potential candidates on all sides with a political pedigree, and of course a lot that don’t have one, all of whom are going to […]
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A Budget Language Fix In The Works?
10 June 2014 | 13th VA Senate, Virginia Senate | No Comments
Steve Albertson’s post at The Bull Elephant about the terrible language currently in the proposed budget has gotten at least one Senator interested in fixing that mess. I spoke with Senator Dick Black this afternoon and he intends to introduce a floor amendment to the budget that would require any expansion of Obamacare in Virginia get […]
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On Conventions And Liberty
10 June 2014 | RPV, Virginia Politics | 10 Comments
The conclusion of another state-wide Republican convention, one that nominated the candidate that nearly all of the anti-convention activists hoped would win, hasn’t much abated the whining from them that we shouldn’t ever have a state-wide convention again. They got what they wanted as an outcome, but it isn’t enough. They’ll be satisfied with nothing […]
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RPV Convention 2014: Shak Hill For Senate
4 June 2014 | RPV, US Senate | 8 Comments
On Friday and Saturday, a few of my fellow conservatives will be travelling down to Roanoke for the Republican State Convention to select a nominee to challenge Mark Warner’s Senate seat. In a year where there’s a pretty pitched battle between establishment moderates and the conservative grassroots, this might be a far more interesting convention […]
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