by MCDC | Nov 26, 2013 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Ethics, Health Care, Virginia
ProgressVA today announced Speaker William Howell as the recipient of the organization’s 2013 “Turkey of the Year” award, in recognition of his staunch opposition to expanding Medicaid to up to 400,000 low-income Virginians. A program expansion would...
by MCDC | Nov 26, 2013 | Health Care, Issues, Virginia
via NPR Saying he is “alive for a reason and I will work for change,” Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds has told a Virginia news outlet that his life’s work now “is to make sure other families don’t have to go through what we are...
by MCDC | Nov 25, 2013 | Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
The certified tally was Herring 1,103,777, Obenshain 1,103,612. Attorney General-elect Mark Herring released a statement following the State Board of Elections certifying him as the next Attorney General of Virginia: “I am gratified that the State Board of...
by MCDC | Nov 20, 2013 | Health Care, Virginia
via Blue Virginia The tragedy involving State Senator Creigh Deeds and his son Gus is horrible enough as it is. But then, we heard the infuriating news that Gus – who apparently had a history of struggling with mental illness – was “evaluated...
by MCDC | Nov 17, 2013 | Virginia, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
By Corey Hutchins CHARLESTON, SC — A week and a half after Election Day, the outcome of Virginia’s race for attorney general remains not quite settled—despite a tug-of-war in the headlines that have declared, at various times, Republican Mark Obenshain and Democrat...
by MCDC | Nov 16, 2013 | Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
RICHMOND — DPVA Chair Charniele Herring released this statement following the results in today’s Sixth Senate District Democratic nominating caucus: “I want to congratulate my colleague Delegate Lynwood Lewis on his victory in today’s Sixth...