by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Virginia
Beginning March 3, we’re putting up billboards—funded by small dollar donations from MoveOn members—in six states (Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Virginia). The billboards are designed to mimic current state tourism campaigns, and to call...
by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Virginia
Of the 50 House districts with the highest percentage of Medicaid recipients, 32 are represented by Republicans, according to a study by three political scientists at the University of Mary Washington. Those legislators are willing to forgo the federal largesse rather...
by MCDC | Mar 5, 2014 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Video, Virginia, Voter Rights
Augustine Carter, an 85-year-old voter in Richmond, tells her story of the trouble she went through to vote in 2012. Born in 1928, she never had a birth certificate and she never got a driver’s license because she decided years ago that driving wasn’t for...
by MCDC | Mar 5, 2014 | Education, Events, Health Care, Virginia
UMOJA: Noun 1. unity, oneness (the state of being one or undivided) On behalf of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Alliance of Black School Educators and the Young Black Professional Network of Charlottesville, we will like to invite you and your child to our...
by MCDC | Mar 2, 2014 | Environment, Global Warming, Gun Reform, Virginia
Ken Cuccinelli wants to protect your right to bear arms—and a whole lot more. A message to real Americans from Ken Cuccinelli’s Virginia Self Defense Law: We know that you aren’t just law abiding. You are, in our view, “universally far more law abiding...
by MCDC | Feb 26, 2014 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Madison County, Virginia
If you refer to yourself as a patriot, profess to have good business sense, describe yourself as a well-intended person having compassion for your fellow man, or all of the above, I strongly encourage you to discuss favorable with your delegate or senator the...
