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Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans
By Igor Volsky Conservative advocates funded by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch have launched a massive campaign pressuring states to deny health care coverage to lower income Americans through the Medicaid expansion contained in the...
Residents Sue Over 2011 House Redistricting
By Ray Reed and Alicia Petska [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUDBgYodIE&w=853&h=480] Two Lynchburg voters filed a lawsuit this week challenging the 2011 redistricting of the House of Delegates and accusing state officials of engaging in racial...
Join us for an event in support of Mark Herring for Attorney General
Join us for an event in support of Mark Herring for Attorney General with special guest Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz To Register https://secure.actblue.com/page/DWSEvent10.22.13 Information amber@herringforag.com...
GOPosaur Down
The first federal government shutdown in 17 years, triggered by a Republican demand to defund the Affordable Care Act on Oct. 1, cost the U.S. $24 billion in potential economic activity -- equalling at least 0.6% of projected annualized fourth-quarter 2013 GDP growth,...
Religious Leaders and Workers Sing and Pray For Moderate Republicans
A tip-of-the-hat to Jean K. for recommending this story to us Like most Americans, Sister Simone Campbell is feeling desperate about the current stand-off and shut down of the government. So Sister Simone along with an interfaith group of religious leaders decided to...
Eric Cantor Blamed By Virginia Colleagues For Prolonging Government Shutdown
by Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON -- Two Virginia congressmen fumed Tuesday about the damage being done to their state by the ongoing government shutdown and laid the blame squarely on a fellow Virginian, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R), for preventing lawmakers...
A lobbyist and a Senator walk into a restaurant…
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You Are Cordially Invited
Terry McAuliffe — Ralph Northam — Mark Herring — Traci Dippert Please join the Madison County Democratic Committee for a very special evening in support of our candidates Saturday, October 19th 6:00 PM at the home of Arrington Dixon 3690...
Quid Pro D’oh!
By Rosalind S. Helderman and Carol D. Leonnig A wealthy political donor has told federal prosecutors that he believed that Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell was helping his company get state research funding at the same time the executive was providing McDonnell’s...
“Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.”
By Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company Even if the threat of terrorists went away, none of those bold projects Glenn Greenwald described as defining American greatness would happen today. Our government is paralyzed and dysfunctional, and it’s getting worse than ever....
