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“Mark Obenshain Votes Like E.W. Jackson Talks”
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...
“Bringing Down TransCanada’s House of Cards: The Keystone Chronicles.”
The relentless Canadian lobbying for the Keystone XL pipeline continues today when the Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver heads to Washington to push for the pipeline. During the trip, he will meet U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz for their first...
Climate Scientist Can Proceed with Libel Suit Against Right Wing Blogs, Judge Rules
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...
EXTREME Sellout. EXTREME Priorities. EXTREME Neglect.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eunFv_jaT9A&w=640&h=480] 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...
Laid-Off Workers: Cuccinelli’s Campaign Tricked Us Into Appearing in GOP Attack Ad
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 told Mother Jones, "I never...
Ken Cuccinelli: Helping Himself, Not Us
"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 Virginians' private...
More Than Just Lip Service
Congress reconvenes next week after its August recess, and we’ll be considering very important issues such as what to do about Syria. During the August break, I was eager to spend several days on the road in every region of Virginia. If you have just a moment, I would...
McDonnell Throws Wife of 37 Years Under The Bus
“He looks like a coward. It looks like he’s hiding behind a really thin excuse and blaming his wife,” said Andrew G. McBride, a former Justice Department official and federal prosecutor in Virginia." New reporting by the Washington Post shows that embattled Virginia...
Cuccinelli Tax Cut Would De-Fund Schools
Tax-cuts For the Rich, Cuts to Education for Everyone Else Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's proposed $1.4 billion income tax cut would necessitate an annual reduction of at least $525 million in state education funding, leading to layoffs of more than 8,000 teachers....
Cuccinelli’s Explanation Unravels
"Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's credibility suffered another blow recently, after a southwestern Virginia newspaper unearthed records showing a senior assistant in his office communicated through email dozens of times with attorneys representing energy companies in...
