by MCDC | Sep 14, 2013 | Ethics, Health Care, Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Image via the ACLU Endorsed By Rick Santorum for his cowardly escalation of the GOP’s ongoing war on women, Tea Party candidate Ken Cuccinelli is currently down by 18 points among women voters in his bid to succeed scandal-plagued Bob McDonnell as Virginia...
by MCDC | Sep 13, 2013 | Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
An Arlington, Va.-based conservative group, whose existence until now was unknown to almost everyone in politics, raised and spent $250 million in 2012 to shape political and policy debate nationwide. The group, Freedom Partners, and its president, Marc Short, serve...
by MCDC | Sep 12, 2013 | Health Care, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
From the Democratic Party of Virginia In his run for Attorney General, Mark Obenshain has been obscuring his record on women’s health. Below are some of the extreme right-wing measures he has championed in the Virginia General Assembly: Mark Obenshain voted in 2004,...
by MCDC | Sep 11, 2013 | Action Alerts, Environment, Events, Global Warming, Issues, Keystone XL, Video
350.org Last week the Canadian government sent a letter to President Obama offering vague promises of reducing carbon emissions from the tar sands in return for the right to build the pipeline. Scientists and energy analysts quickly pointed out that this was nonsense...
by MCDC | Sep 11, 2013 | Ethics, Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
In the first test for a Republican Party that is still reeling from the disastrous 2012 election, Virginia’s gubernatorial race could have provided the GOP an opportunity to temper its ultraconservative platform or restrain its partnership with the Tea Party. But the...
by MCDC | Sep 10, 2013 | Ethics, Gun Reform, Health Care, Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
In the race for attorney general, Virginia voters have a choice between two state senators with strong professional qualifications, lengthy legislative records and the same first name. But Mark Obenshain, a Harrisonburg Republican, and Mark Herring, a Loudon County...
