by MCDC | Apr 7, 2013 | Energy, News
Tom Farrell’s nuclear fantasy Tom Farrell doesn’t get it. Dominion Power, the utility of which he is CEO, has been all about building natural gas plants for the past couple of years, as it rushes to take advantage of cheap fracked gas. Out with the aging coal...
by MCDC | Apr 7, 2013 | Issues, News, Virginia Election 2013
“The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” — Henry A. Kissinger, US Secretary of State, March 10, 1975. RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia law will require all voters to have photo IDs beginning next year. Gov. Bob McDonnell...
by MCDC | Apr 5, 2013 | News, Virginia Election 2013
4/02/2013 Richmond, VA — On Sunday The Washington Post reported on the latest revelation involving Ken Cuccinelli’s conflict of interest with tobacco and drug company Star Scientific. As the Post reported, Cuccinelli failed to disclose his stock holdings...
by MCDC | Apr 5, 2013 | Action Alerts, Health Care, News, Sequester, Social Security
Will Obama regret offering to cut Social Security? Conservatives’ real aim in their fiscal brinkmanship is to gut Social Security and Medicare.U.S. politics seems stuck in an endless debate about the size of the federal deficit and federal debt. From congressional...
by MCDC | Apr 3, 2013 | News, Virginia Election 2013
“the most signatures any candidate has collected for Governor in Virginia history” 4/02/2013 h/t http://www.vbdemocrats.org/ RICHMOND — Yesterday afternoon the Democratic Party of Virginia informed the Virginia State Board of Elections that it has...
by MCDC | Apr 2, 2013 | Action Alerts, News, Virginia Election 2013
Dear Friend, Voter ID requirements are changing again. And, once again, Republicans are making Virginia national news for all the wrong reasons. The refrain of last night’s Rachel Maddow Show from Republicans is “Let’s make it harder.”...