Posted on 07/04/2005 8:54:28 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
April 11, 2005 Thread I
April 18, 2005 Thread II
April 25, 2005 Thread III
May 2, 2005 Thread IV
May 9, 2005 Thread VI
May 16, 2005 Thread VII
May 23, 2005 Thread VIII
May 31, 2005 Thread IX - Memorial Day
June 6, 2005 Thread
June 13, 2005 Thread XI - Primary Eve
June 20, 2005 - LATE EDITION - Thread XII
June 27, 2005 - Thread XIII
Articles below are from the Richmond Times Dispatch unless noted.
GOP donors warm to Kaine
Democrat draws financial support from some who supported Hager in 2001
by Pamela Stallsmith
Democrat Timothy M. Kaine appears to be making inroads among Republican donors, drawing financial support from some backers of 2001 GOP gubernatorial hopeful John H. Hager.
This is such a crock. In the print version, you have to go to the inside of the section to get to this paragraph.
...Kilgore, who resigned as attorney general in February, has drawn more than $1.2 million from Hager supporters and about $160,000 from donors to Virginians for Warner, The Times-Dispatch analysis shows.
That's twice as much from Hager donors to Kilgore.
Big story? I don't think so.
Politics doesn't take a holiday
Kaine, Kilgore, other statewide hopefuls to mark July 4 weekend
by Tyler Whitley
With Fourth of July oratory out of fashion, the candidates for statewide office will be pressing the flesh instead during the holiday weekend.
No Schapiro
Jeff E. Schapiro's column on Virginia government and politics will resume next week.
~snif~
That's just beautiful.
Remembering what we're fighting for pingage.
Let Freedom Ring Around the World!
I actually spent 2 lovely days over on Chincoteague and politics, particularly VA politics only came up once.
Someone, not from around these parts, said something about hearing of the great job the VA governor was doing and while I was snorting beer out my nose my husband brought up the tax increase and I finally composed myself enough to say someting snide about "Marky Mark".........it got funnier after that..........
He said I thought there was a woman governor here and I said that was Delaware and he said he thought that was NJ - and I then gave the litany of Gov's - the former in NJ is a fag, the woman Gov in Del is a disaster, the MD Gov is referred to affectionately at the "boy governor" and VA has a damnedyankee carpetbagger for a Gov. Of the lot of them, the only decent one in the bunch is the one in Maryland.
Of course being the only residents of the Commonwealth in the group, we probably could have gotten away with saying anything we wanted, but you will both be happy to know that we just stuck with the facts.
LOL! You go girl! Like they say - truth is stranger than fiction.
Happy 4th to you and yours!
Hope your weekend was very happy as well!
It was actually very lovely to really and truly get away from the "real" world for a little while...jax actually got to put on her "Barbie" life jacket for real today and go out on a boat for the first time and mommy didn't have to deal with "stuff."
I can't ask for much more.........
Gun ban divides two lawmakers
by Peter Hardin
WASHINGTON -- Two prominent Virginia lawmakers are in the middle of a recurring and emotional congressional fight over repealing the District of Columbia's ban on handgun ownership.
Now, where are those detractors who say Senator Allen is weak on the 2nd Amendment?
Thanks for the ping. Did anyone have a chance to help the ticket this weekend? I heard both George Allen and Jerry Kilgore speak at the Leadership Institute's Conservative Soiree yesterday. They both did a great job. Allen's stump speech is more and more national in tone. The other speakers make references to 2008 but he always stays focused on 2006, so it's a nice tag team routine that works.
Earlier in the day at another event I attended in a fairly blue zone people were scooping up Kilgore balloons and bumperstickers like crazy and signing up to volunteer. It was a good sign!
We went to the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds for the fireworks last night. There were way too many people wearing Kaine stickers. But Kilgore had information and not stickers.
(of course I didn't volunteer to hand out stickers either)
sounds like a GREAT sign to me!
The Kilgore bumper stickers on my car and hubby's truck were the only ones I saw on Chincoteague this weekend - of course the fact that ours were about the only VA tagged vehicles at the campgrounds may have had something to do with that :)
When I go back over to do lunch with the "girls" tomorrow or Thursday I'm planning on dropping a stack of them off at the office - all of the campground vehicles still sport Bush/Cheney bumper stickers and the front office counter is coveredin pro-life/anti-abortion posters.
At the booth where I was it was just the opposite -- no paper was allowed to be distributed, stickers only. Kilgore has BIG orange balloons. Can't miss those!
OK - I'll bite and ask the really dumb question..........why ORANGE?????
Is there some significance to the color that I am missing?
I told you it was a dumb question :)
thank you, both.
Not a dumb question at all.
OK - maybe not a dumb question - but obviously one that would only be asked by a transplant to VA...........(and a yankee transplant to boot)
It was a good question. Orange is an unusual color for a campaign unless one lives in the Ukraine!
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