by MCDC | Jan 17, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Issues, Virginia
Letter to the Editor of the Times-Dispatch Medicaid expansion is the right thing to do, despite Ken Cuccinelli’s claims in his Op/Ed column, “Medicaid expansion is wrong for Virginia.” Cuccinelli claims that if Medicaid is expanded under Obamacare to provide care for...
by MCDC | Jan 15, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Citizens United, Issues, News
by Joan McCarter Since September, Americans for Prosperity, a group financed in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, has spent an estimated $20 million on television advertising that calls out House and Senate Democrats by name for their support of the Affordable...
by MCDC | Jan 10, 2014 | Health Care, Issues, Virginia
Explains how system failed his son, Gus By Anne Adams HOT SPRINGS — The loss is crushing. A 24-year-old with everything to gain thanks to his multiple talents, Gus Deeds was cherished by his friends and family; he touched everyone around him. “He could have written...
by MCDC | Jan 10, 2014 | Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXu5d5-3G1w&w=640&h=360] Jobs & the Economy: The legislature needs to spend more time focused on improving our economy and less time on ideological pursuits and divisive social issues. We need to...
by MCDC | Jan 7, 2014 | Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Democrat wins first of two special elections to decide Senate chamber control WASHINGTON-Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) Executive Director Michael Sargeant released the following statement on tonight’s Democratic victories in the special...
by MCDC | Dec 28, 2013 | Gun Reform, Health Care, Issues, Minimum Wage, News
In politics, as in sports, you can’t win ‘em all. With a divided government and a House of Representatives firmly in the control of tea partiers, it was a tough year for progressives in Washington – one marked by the painful cuts of sequestration…...
