by MCDC | Jun 1, 2013 | Ethics, News, Virginia Election 2013
Speaking of ethics, you may recall the recent flap when Virginia’s Attorney General refused to honor a Freedom of Information Request from Charlottesville’s Waldo Jaquith regarding that office’s compliance (or lack thereof) with legally-mandated...
by MCDC | Jun 1, 2013 | News, Racism
A photo in a second email showed President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama with surprised looks on their faces. The caption read “An embassy was bombed? … Muslims okay?” A string of racist emails and controversial remarks have shaken up a school...
by MCDC | May 29, 2013 | Action Alerts, Events, Issues, Virginia Election 2013
Heal Thyself, Virginia! In what is widely seen both as a GOP test-case and a referendum on the Obama presidency, the Republicans have nominated some of the most extreme right-wing candidates in the history of the Commonwealth. We have the cure, but it will only work...
by MCDC | May 18, 2013 | Gun Reform, Issues, Video, Virginia Election 2013
On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Before driving to the school, Lanza had shot and killed his mother Nancy at their Newtown home. As...
by MCDC | May 15, 2013 | Action Alerts, Health Care, Issues, News, Virginia Election 2013
“If you thought transvaginal ultrasounds were bad..” Ken Cuccinelli might not yet be a household name. But in just three short years, he has amassed a record as Virginia attorney general that has earned him the distinction of “the most overtly partisan...
by MCDC | May 15, 2013 | Health Care, Issues, Virginia Election 2013
“For the GOP, nothing succeeds like failure”. Republicans still fighting hard to turn Obamacare into a short-lived failure suddenly have grown in compassion for the uninsured sick. Virginians living in high-poverty, medically under-served rural areas...
