by MCDC | Sep 10, 2013 | Ethics, Gun Reform, Health Care, Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
In the race for attorney general, Virginia voters have a choice between two state senators with strong professional qualifications, lengthy legislative records and the same first name. But Mark Obenshain, a Harrisonburg Republican, and Mark Herring, a Loudon County...
by MCDC | Sep 9, 2013 | Issues, Video, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Today, Senator Barbara Favola and Democratic Party of Virginia Executive Director Lauren Harmon exposed the close ideological relationship between E.W. Jackson and Mark Obenshain, the Republican Lt. Governor and Attorney General candidates. On a call open to the...
by MCDC | Sep 7, 2013 | Environment, Global Warming, Video, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Known for his “hockey stick” graph showing a steep climb in global temperature over the last century, top climate scientist Michael Mann can go ahead and sue two right-wing blogs for libel, a judge ruled last week. The case stems from two separate blog posts that ran...
by MCDC | Sep 6, 2013 | Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
EXTREME Sellout Ken Cuccinelli’s office door is wide open for the out-of-state energy companies that have dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into his campaigns. Virginia families? Not so much. When Ken has to pick between Virginia landowners or the profits of his...
by MCDC | Sep 6, 2013 | Action Alerts, Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Mother Jones magazine reported yesterday that Ken Cuccinelli’s campaign tricked at least two laid-off workers into appearing in a new attack ad. The women featured in the ad were shocked. “If I had known that’s what it was for,” one of them...
by MCDC | Sep 6, 2013 | Ethics, Video, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
“Lavish meals. Travel on private jets. Just some of the gifts Ken Cuccinelli took in the Star Scientific scandal. Now Cuccinelli’s office is under investigation for secretly helping an out-of-state energy company that was drilling natural gas from...
