by MCDC | Mar 4, 2015 | News, Virginia
BY JIM NOLAN Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones is expected to step aside this weekend as chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Sources said Jones, who was appointed chairman by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, will formally step aside at a meeting of...
by MCDC | Mar 4, 2015 | Civil Rights, Discrimination, Events, News, Racism, Video
By Sari Horwitz The Justice Department will issue findings Wednesday that accuse the police department in Ferguson, Mo., of racial bias and routinely violating the constitutional rights of black citizens by stopping drivers without reasonable suspicion, making arrests...
by MCDC | Mar 3, 2015 | 2015 General Election, Madison County, Virginia, Voter Rights
GERRYMANDERING is the deliberate manipulation of legislative district boundaries to advantage or benefit a particular party or group, or to cause disadvantage or harm to an opposing party or group. It distorts the electoral process, undermines democracy, and renders...
by MCDC | Feb 27, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, News
Is Sen. James Inhofe really the person we want chairing the Senate’s environment committee? What’s all this talk about global hunger? I don’t know about you, but I just tucked into a burrito and there are plenty more where that one came from. But that doesn’t...
by MCDC | Feb 26, 2015 | Issues, News
Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee for attorney general, cleared a major hurdle today to succeed Eric Holder as the country’s top law enforcement officer. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-8 to send the nomination to the full chamber, which is...
by MCDC | Feb 26, 2015 | 2015 General Election, 2016 General Election, Madison County, Virginia, Voter Rights
Because elections are locally administered in the United States, voter suppression varies among jurisdictions. At the founding of the country, most states limited the right to vote to property-owning white males. Over time, the right to vote was formally granted to...
