Another election season that’s starting to get underway is in Manassas City, where Council members Steve Randolph, Andy Harrover and Marc Aveni are seeking re-election. So far the Dems haven’t made any noise about running candidates, while Republicans Harrover and Aveni have announced they’re going to run a joint [...]
This time Obama bows down to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, following his previous bowing before the Japanese Emperor. Reportedly, North Korean dictator Kim Jung-Il is anxious to have Obama come visit so he can render similar honors.
H/T: Hope Is Not A Foreign Policy
[...]As a preview of the campaign he intends to run, Dave Marsden has pulled what Riley is describing as “A Steve Chapman” by renting a room in the 37th Senate District so he could qualify as a candidate. Some Democrats are aghast, as Marsden manages to establish for [...]
Once again, Austin Haynes is raising money for a good cause in his quest to be sort of a one-man United Way for the City of Manassas. He’s raised money for a number of charitable causes over the years with 24 hour swims and other tests of endurance and perseverance [...]
Can you believe this? Democrats even conducted a poll to try to figure out who to run in the 37th District, and all they could ultimately come up with was Dave Marsden!!! Apparently mounting a write-in campaign for a week-old dead carp was seen as too much [...]
Voters in the 37th District are being bombarded with robocalls and mailers — as many as five a day this past Saturday – from the Marianne Horinko campaign as she tries to win the Republican nomination to run for Ken Cuccinelli’s Senate seat. Before her run for the Senate I’d never heard of [...]
The “stimulus” passed by Congress and the Obama Administration has truly done a wonderful thing. It has expanded the number of congressional districts in Virginia beyond the eleven we currently have, and managed to create new jobs in them! I never thought something like this would be possible, but I [...]
Manassas Park City Councilman Peter Farrell resigned his position on the Governing Board last Friday according to the News & Messenger, just before his trial on charges of election fraud was scheduled to begin today. The comment from his press release stating that he was giving up simply because he was [...]
With the mainstream media so openly promoting homosexuality and hostile to traditional values, I guess the continued existence of “gay newspapers” was pretty much superfluous. Oh well, gone will be the days when conservative candidates could hold up stories from the Washington Blade as a means of inflaming their [...]
One of the big concerns for both parties going into this election year was the effect the election would have on redistricting, an inescapably partisan process where the House, Senate and Governor re-draw the electoral districts to reflect population changes and ensure roughly equal representation. The concern of both parties [...]
“Organizing For America”, the collective behind President Obama’s perpetual campaign, decided to lend some assistance to the beleagured Congressman Gerry Connolly this afternoon by holding a “thank you rally” in front of his office in Annandale. Four days ago, an email started rallying the Obama troops to come to the defense [...]
Once again, President Obama demonstrates his deep love and profound respect for the United States of America in this photo taken yesterday. He actually stood up for the National Anthem, and didn’t fidget once.
Meanwhile, Dictator Hugo Chavez of Venzuela behaves a bit differently in similar circumstances. Maybe Obama [...]
Guest post by Howard Roark
I was astounded to read in the November 11 “News & Observer” that Manassas Councilman Mark Wolfe is again reaching for the wallets of taxpayers in Manassas and Prince William County. We know already that he padded his request for arts funding to get $55,000 [...]
Guest Post by Sanford D. Horn
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling [...]
With 24 hour’s notice and on a weekday to boot, about 200 people showed up in front of Gerry Connolly’s district office in Prince William County to protest his support of Pelosi-ObamaCare, which is a pretty amazing turnout. Of particular note at this event, one of Connolly’s staffers was taking [...]
Lots of questions swirl around the blogosphere regarding when a special election in the 37th District will be held. Governor/DNC Chair Kaine was expected to delay calling the election until Democrats could actually find a qualified candidate who lived in the district, but today bwana notes that the timing might [...]
Here are some highlights from the Steve Hunt kickoff. Voters in the 37th Senate District would be hard-pressed to find a better candidate to represent them in the Senate of Virginia.
Who do you support to replace Cooch in the Senate?
Steve Hunt Someone else Marianne Horinko Will Nance
So Gerry Connolly voted for Pelosi-ObamaCare, and a lot of eleventh district residents are pretty upset from the looks of the comment sections in several posts. My question is, what are those of you frustrated by this going to do about it? I assume sitting on the couch isn’t in the [...]
Keith Fimian held a press conference in front of Gerry Connolly’s district office today where he delivered a tough critique of the current 2,000 plus page monstrosity of a bill that the House is debating. You’d think Democrats would at least allow consideration of some of the common-sense alternatives [...]
Not much of a surprise here, but the behavior of Gerry Connolly just seems like the gift that keeps on giving to bloggers.
Connolly has been telling people that he wasn’t sure how he would vote on the monstrosity of the ObamaCare bill and wanted to get more information and see [...]
So far it’s looking like this buffoon Dave Marsden, who barely escaped getting beaten by an under-funded, relative unknown in his House District race this week, is the most likely Democrat to run for the Senate seat now vacated by Ken Cuccinelli in the 37th Senate District. Marsden even has [...]
Now this should be interesting. Gerry Connolly has handed Keith Fimian a wagonload of political ammunition for his challenge over the past several days, and I’m betting he’s going to start using it right away. Bully for him!
Keith Fimian will be holding a press conference on Saturday, [...]
Welcome listeners of THE GREAT ONE, Mark Levin! (Mark refers to this post around minute 75 in his program)
Today there are lots of people trying to lobby their elected officials on the health care bill pending in Congress, and Gerry Connolly tried to get one of them arrested [...]
Right after the Democrats get spanked in Virginia and New Jersey, the Congress decides now is the time to bring up a health care bill that specifically includes providing care for illegal aliens, and Pelosi lapdogs like Gerry Connolly are squarely sitting in ground-zero in the fight raging today. [...]
Paul Nichols was a first-term delegate with lots of money, but wasn’t expected to personally work that hard for his own re-election. Rich Anderson looked promising as a challenger because he was willing to put in the time and effort to get elected. In the end, Anderson knocking on a [...]
“A mixed blessing is when your mother in law drives off a cliff, but does it in your new Cadillac.”
On the good news front, I don’t think there’s any way we’re going to have to deal with Jeanette Rishell as a candidate ever again. On the bad news front, [...]
When last night’s election returns started rolling in I and everyone else were stunned by a substantial early lead reported for Jody Wagner, where she was leading Bill Bolling by about 75%-25% while returns showed Bob McDonnell leading Creigh Deeds 60%-40%. As the evening wore on, Wagner’s lead slowly disappeared [...]
Now that Ken Cuccinelli is the AG-elect, there’s the question of who is going to run for his Senate seat. This is the man I think will be the next Senator representing the 37th District:
Who do you support to replace Cooch in the Senate?
Steve Hunt Someone else Marianne [...]We already know, for the most part, all the candidates who won or lost in yesterday’s election. They’re not the only ones with either a reason to celebrate or feel despair today. Plenty of others are, or should be caught up in the emotional wake of yesterday’s stunning results, and [...]
What a night.
Bob McDonnell crushes Deeds 59-41, Bill Bolling wallops Wagner 56-44, and Ken Cuccinelli pounds Shannon 58-42. Republicans pick up what looks to be six seats, with Morefield, Villanueva, Stolle, LeMunyon, Greason, Garrett, Anderson and Comstock winning, and Hamilton and Lopez coming up short. Democrats also manage to lose [...]
Tonight, BVBL goes live-stream for election night coverage from the site of the 2009 Republican Victory Celebration at L&B’s in Woodbridge, starting at 7:00PM. To see the broadcast live on ustream, and participate in the chat, click here. We’ll have coverage of tonight’s election results, interviews with the candidates, [...]
Party and campaign operations folks are telling me this morning that turnout in traditionally Republican-leaning precincts in Prince William County are ranging in the 8-9% range, while Democrat-leaning precincts are hovering in the 3-4% range. Although I expect this gap to narrow throughout the day, the gap should widen back [...]
I’ll be busy working polls early on election day, and while I am I hope readers can share what they’re noticing at the polls and how many voters have turned out at their precincts. I’m expecting many will see a fairly light turnout in their precincts and a pretty meager [...]
Bob McDonnell sure got the huge crowd at the PWC Victory Rally all fired up for the last day of the campaign with this great speech. Bob was introduced by his daughter Jeanine and was interrupted by applause numerous times. This looks like quite a capable and confident ticket, but [...]
Bill Bolling sure helped energize the huge Prince William County crowd that showed up for him today, and he didn’t even have to mention once who he was running against. Here are his remarks at the PWC Victory Rally in Bristow that fired up the crowd.
[...]As usual, Ken is great with an energized crowd, and this one sure was. Here are his remarks at the PWC Victory Rally in Bristow earlier today. To put a big fat exclamation point on Ken’s great campaign, while I was posting this I got a robo-call from the Deeds [...]
These numbers are phenominal:
Governor:
Bob McDonnell 58
Creigh Deeds 40
Lt. Governor:
Bill Bolling 57
Jody Wagner 41
Attorney General:
Ken Cuccinelli 59
Steve Shannon 39
And the impact on the House of Delegates races? Priceless. If the election turns out like this, ten is the minimum pick-up for Republicans.
[...]Our local tax dollars support the Prince William/Manassas Convention and Visitors Bureau, and they use that money to promote varrious venues around Prince William County. So what snuck into this video used to promote the county? The “Lazy Susan Dinner Theater”, that’s in Lorton. How the heck did [...]
I’m working out the details now, but it looks like I’ll be able to live stream coverage from the PWC Victory Party at L&B’s Pizzaria starting at 7:00PM Tuesday night. Republicans in some of the most-watched districts in Virginia will be there for live interviews, as well as local elected officials and perhaps [...]
While a lot of discussion has been devoted to some of the big money races where Republicans are looking to take seats from Democrats in Northern Virginia, there are a couple others that could have some interesting outcomes that haven’t gotten as much mention, and that I’ve noted before. If [...]
Yes, the wave of political correctness that crashed over the resolve of some retailers didn’t prevent everyone from enjoying these creative costumes! Now, which one of these guys should I give the Green Card to?
[...]Who says conservatives have no appreciation for the arts? Well, to prove the naysayers wrong, I bring you two great poets this evening for you, one from old and one quite new, one well recognized, and one not yet so. Readers can judge for themselves which of these most deserves the [...]
One of the best insights into the character of a candidate is their response to the question where they’re asked to say something good about their opponent. It’s not a terribly common question, but it pops up from time to time and presents a unique opportunity to see right through the carefully-crafted [...]
Local politics is where all the interesting stuff seems to happen, as this article in the DC Examiner so wonderfully attests. At what other level of government would you have something like this happen, where incoherent and irate supporters of Chuck Caputo try to browbeat Jim Lemunyon for both not supporting their [...]
