by MCDC | Sep 15, 2013 | Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
An out-of-state oil company, CONSOL Energy, is trying to wriggle out of its commitment to Virginia landowners. And Ken Cuccinelli might be helping them do it. Thousands of our neighbors in Southwest Virginia are suing CONSOL for nearly $28 million in owed royalties...
by MCDC | Sep 14, 2013 | Ethics, Health Care, Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Image via the ACLU Endorsed By Rick Santorum for his cowardly escalation of the GOP’s ongoing war on women, Tea Party candidate Ken Cuccinelli is currently down by 18 points among women voters in his bid to succeed scandal-plagued Bob McDonnell as Virginia...
by MCDC | Sep 13, 2013 | Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
An Arlington, Va.-based conservative group, whose existence until now was unknown to almost everyone in politics, raised and spent $250 million in 2012 to shape political and policy debate nationwide. The group, Freedom Partners, and its president, Marc Short, serve...
by MCDC | Sep 12, 2013 | Health Care, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
From the Democratic Party of Virginia In his run for Attorney General, Mark Obenshain has been obscuring his record on women’s health. Below are some of the extreme right-wing measures he has championed in the Virginia General Assembly: Mark Obenshain voted in 2004,...
by MCDC | Sep 11, 2013 | Ethics, Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
In the first test for a Republican Party that is still reeling from the disastrous 2012 election, Virginia’s gubernatorial race could have provided the GOP an opportunity to temper its ultraconservative platform or restrain its partnership with the Tea Party. But the...
