He'll supposedly work to govern from the middle and leave the rightwing kook stuff (that he no less supports) to' [...]
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He'll supposedly work to govern from the middle and leave the rightwing kook stuff (that he no less supports) to' [...]
Gov. Tim Kaine, Gov-elect Bob McDonnell and Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling all attended the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Revenue Estimates (GACRE) today and received less than stellar news regarding the state budget.
The estimators predicted that “Virginia needs to cut an additional $250 million from the budget [...]
The Virginia election results were certified tonight by the State Board of Elections and there were no particular surprises.
Bob McDonnell still won in a landslide. House Republicans still picked up six seats.
However, one of those House seats is going to take a little longer being finalized [...]
By Kate Obenshain
Vice President, Young America’s Foundation; Former RPV Chairman
Try as they might, liberal pundits cannot explain away Bob McDonnell’s 18-point election victory over Creigh Deeds by saying that Virginia always elects governors who are not of the president’s party. That’s like saying Republicans [...]
In this episode of Virginia Politics On-Demand, Rosemary Wilson, candidate seeking the GOP nomination for Virginia’s 8th Senate Seat, explains why she’s the best candidate to help Bob McDonnell take on our most pressing challenges in Richmond.
Drop me an email at vpod@bearingdrift.com with your [...]
Listening to my friend JP Godsey’s radio show on 670 AM and my jaw hit the floor.
Jeff McWaters just mentioned that he was regional coordinator for Bob McDonnell, but he was the statewide head Finance person for Jerry Kilgore, and McWaters said ‘We raised 23 million [...]
I'm not so alarmed by his appointing the typical suspects (Thelma Drake, Tom Davis,' [...]
In this episode of Virginia Politics On-Demand, we recap this week’s news, including Hamilton’s resignation and Mathieson’s potential congressional run.
We also hear from a triumphant, yet realistic, Governor-elect Bob McDonnell, as he returns home to a victory celebration in Virginia Beach.
Finally, Jeff McWaters, candidate seeking the [...]
Today in Glen Allen, Governor-elect Bob McDonnell will address the House Democratic caucus, as reported on WTOP.
A well-placed source has informed Bearing Drift that Democrats did not even include Bobby Mathieson in the invitation to the meeting.
After being defeated by Republican Ron Villanueva, Mathieson contested [...]
We now have no representation in Richmond. Instead we will be represented by ignorant lap dogs to Speaker Bill Howell who is now wetting his pants in anticipation of pushing through Bob McDonnell's rightwing agenda.
What pisses me [...]
About six hundred happy Virginians packed into the Cavalier Hotel last evening to welcome home Governor-elect Bob McDonnell and his family. It was an opportunity to have, less than a week later, their own victory party for a favorite of this region.
However, while that celebration was [...]
by Danae Jones Aicher, a former journalist-turned political communications adviser. She now is a soon-to-be-stay-at-home-mom working on a book about raising biracial children.
Virginia Governor-elect Bob McDonnell should be commended on a solid win, but Republicans shouldn’t get too excited. A fact which can’t be ignored is Virginia [...]
Bob McDonnell has appointed Virginia's largest corporate polluter aka Dominion's Fossil Fool Tom Farrell to his gubernatorial transition team.
Meanwhile our next Attorney General, someone charged with enforcement on environmental regulations, calls environmentalists "watermelons"... green on the outside and commie red on the inside.
Plus we lost the one [...]
Gov-elect Bob McDonnell should be commended on a solid win, but Republicans shouldn’t get too excited.
Without a doubt, McDonnell and Virginia Republicans have a mandate, a fact to which state Democrats should play close attention. But no one should overestimate exactly what that mandate is. Exit [...]
Newly-elected Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and family at the podium Nov. 3, 2009, in Richmond, Virginia.
Possibly the unsung hero of the night, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, who [...]
So, that’s what winning feels like.
It had been a while since Virginia’s Republicans had something to celebrate, but tonight we made up for lost time. Congratulations to the outstanding team of Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli. Congratulations to all of the re-elected Republican Delegates [...]
It was never close.
As the polls indicated throughout the entire campaign, Governor-elect Bob McDonnell maintained his large and comfortable lead until the final votes were counted Tuesday over Democratic State Senator Creigh Deeds.
Up until the very end of the campaign, where the Deeds camp shot-off mundane [...]
Upon arriving at the Centreville precinct this morning in Fairfax County, there was a noticeable flow of people going into vote at 10 a.m. I was among those voting, and there seemed to be a lot of voters supporting Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling, and Ken Cuccinelli. [...]
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