by MCDC | Nov 3, 2013 | GOP Shutdown, Video, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
“Ken Cuccinelli may want Virginians to forget the detrimental impacts of the shutdown and his support for shutdown architect Ted Cruz, but voters won’t soon forget that Cuccinelli sided with the Tea Party against Virginia families,” said DPVA...
by MCDC | Oct 31, 2013 | Virginia
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (VA-7) just announced that House Republicans plan to work a grand total of 113 days next year. In other words, less than half as many as everyone else with a job..
by MCDC | Oct 31, 2013 | Economy, Employment, Ethics, Farm Bill, GOP Shutdown, Minimum Wage, Sequester, Video, Virginia
New York’s River Fund Food Pantry’s new clients are diverse—working people, seniors, single mothers—but many of them share something in common: they represent the millions of Americans who fell victim to food insecurity when the Great Recession hit in 2009, but...
by MCDC | Oct 31, 2013 | Health Care, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Mark Obenshain has spent his campaign for Attorney General running from his career long record on restricting a woman’s access to health care. Today, the Democratic Party of Virginia released a robocall from Republican Katherine Waddell informing Virginia women...
by MCDC | Oct 31, 2013 | Gun Reform, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
By Hunter Today in E.W. Jackson news, the actual Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia says that we need more guns in schools. No, not just armed guards, but people to protect us from the armed guards, and then other people to protect us from those...
by MCDC | Oct 30, 2013 | Action Alerts, Madison County, News, Virginia
(CNN) — In the last few weeks, the media has been ablaze with news of the government shutdown, the debt limit and health care reform. Missing from most public debate, however, is the cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits that...
