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Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think
Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a pretty simple question: Does the government represent the people? Their study took data from nearly 2000 public...
Plutocracy or Democracy?
From a 4/26/15 lecture in Sperryville, Virginia, by Vernon Gras, Professor emeritus, English and Cultural Studies, Geroge Mason University. https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/photos/a.353377234738034.81896.342636902478734/850380961704323
Comstock votes to invade women’s privacy and their personal health care decisions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2015 CONTACT: Morgan Finkelstein, morgan@vademocrats.org Comstock Added to NRCC Most Vulnerable List One Day After Voting To Invade Women’s Privacy and Health Care Rights One-Term Wonder Congresswoman Barbara Comstock found...
Here are the Republican alternatives to Obamacare
The Republican strategy to offset demographic change
via Egberto Willies “We in the US have a growing minority population, a younger minority population that will over time convert the number of white Americans into a minority of the population,” Chris Matthews said. “If you are a Republican how do you deal with that...
Making Science History
We’ve all seen those touchy-feely TV ads with baby deer, butterflies, and sylvan streams — claiming that some big corporate polluter is nature’s best friend. There’s a word for such hokum: greenwashing. Leave it to the Koch brothers, however, to invent a whole new...
Tell Congress: America’s public lands are not for sale
Republicans didn’t campaign on getting rid of America’s public lands and national monuments in the last election, but they sure are acting like it. First they attempted to pass a bill that would abolish the Antiquities Act, a hundred year old executive privilege that...
Save the Date! Annual Founders Dinner May 14th, 2015
The Madison County Democratic Committee Cordially invites you to join us for our 9th annual Founders Dinner with keynote speaker The Honorable Levar M. Stoney, Secretary of the Commonwealth Our Values In Action Held at Antioch Baptist Church Celebrating 150 years of...
Taking on the man who would be Virginia’s Scott Walker
https://youtu.be/DQiyA45-hkM https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/839962306079522
Democrat Ericke Cage to Challenge Robert Hurt for for Virginia’s 5th District Seat
https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/839278346147918
