by MCDC | May 18, 2014 | Citizens United, News, Video, Voter Rights
by Joan McCarter Thursday morning Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced his support for a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United and McCutcheon, the two Supreme Court decisions allowing big money nearly unlimited influence in politics....
by MCDC | May 18, 2014 | Virginia
“Bad for consumers, bad for the next generation of businesses and bad for democracy.” The proposal “undercuts net neutrality and would favor wealthy corporations by allowing ‘pay to play’ rules to stifle small businesses.” The 28 House members who lobbied the Federal...
by MCDC | May 14, 2014 | GOP Shutdown, Health Care, Issues, Virginia
A group of recalcitrant Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates have blocked Medicaid expansion at every opportunity. They are so determined to keep poor people from getting health care that they are preventing passage of a two-year budget for the state for the...
by MCDC | May 9, 2014 | Madison County
The Madison County Democratic Committee has cancelled a Call to Caucus to elect Delegates to the Fifth District Democratic Convention. The Madison Democratic caucus originally scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow, May 10, at the Madison Presbyterian Church, has been...
by MCDC | May 8, 2014 | Civil Rights, Issues, News
“The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves … these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.” –...
by MCDC | May 8, 2014 | News
On the night of 14-15 April 2014, approximately 275 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. The kidnappings were claimed by Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist terrorist organization based in...
