by MCDC | Oct 26, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics
by Timothy Karr | Free Press By now it seems pretty clear that Senator Ted Cruz has a plan to occupy the White House. But he doesn’t want people to know too much about it. And he definitely doesn’t want you to know about the special interests that have already begun...
by MCDC | Oct 19, 2013 | Citizens United, Ethics, Health Care, Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
By Igor Volsky Conservative advocates funded by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch have launched a massive campaign pressuring states to deny health care coverage to lower income Americans through the Medicaid expansion contained in the...
by MCDC | Oct 16, 2013 | Ethics, GOP Shutdown, Issues
The first federal government shutdown in 17 years, triggered by a Republican demand to defund the Affordable Care Act on Oct. 1, cost the U.S. $24 billion in potential economic activity — equalling at least 0.6% of projected annualized fourth-quarter 2013 GDP...
by MCDC | Oct 16, 2013 | Ethics, GOP Shutdown, Issues, Virginia
A tip-of-the-hat to Jean K. for recommending this story to us Like most Americans, Sister Simone Campbell is feeling desperate about the current stand-off and shut down of the government. So Sister Simone along with an interfaith group of religious leaders decided to...
by MCDC | Oct 16, 2013 | Economy, Ethics, GOP Shutdown, Sequester, Virginia
by Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON — Two Virginia congressmen fumed Tuesday about the damage being done to their state by the ongoing government shutdown and laid the blame squarely on a fellow Virginian, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R), for preventing...
