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Democratic Party of Virginia Launches “So You Googled Jim Gilmore” Website
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2015 CONTACT: Morgan Finkelstein, morgan@vademocrats.org With Jim Gilmore filing to run for president today, many Americans found themselves furiously googling the nation's 17th GOP candidate. The Democratic Party of Virginia,...
Trump’d
Washington (CNN) — Donald Trump wouldn't apologize Sunday after igniting a political firestorm a day earlier by questioning whether Sen. John McCain -- who spent five years as a prisoner during the Vietnam War -- is a war hero. Asked by ABC News whether he owes...
Jeb!
New Report: Virginia Ranks 50 out of 51 in “Health of State Democracies”
Download report This is the least understood and least reported big issue in Virginia. Our state government is an all-powerful disaster zone. The normal checks and balances on a state legislature are: 1. Federal government. 2. State judiciary. 3. Local government....
Virginia #Republicans vow to make Indiana-style discrimination laws the ‘primary focus’ of the next legislative session
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Jiggery-pokery: Scalia’s Poetry Slam
By Mark Fiore It seems only fitting to use Antonin Scalia’s own words for a poetry slam, since the justice’s snarky dissents are filled with so many poetic gems. The Affordable Care Act victory was followed quickly by the same-sex marriage...
State of the State: An Update from VA Lt Governor Ralph Northam
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Dick (Transvaginal Ultrasound) Black Is Comparing Women’s Groups To ISIS
RICHMOND — For the first time in history, Emily’s List is targeting a sitting state lawmaker — and Virginia state Sen. Richard H. Black has earned the dubious honor. The national political action committee is putting Black “on notice” for his opposition to Medicaid...
Not so fast..
Being Black in Charleston
"One of the things I wanted all my life is to be a man, not a black man, but a man. There's no way I can ever be a man in Charleston, South Carolina. I'm 80 years old and I'll always be a boy..to the system." -William Saunders #charleston...
