Daily Progress managing editor (and noted blog critic), McGregor McCance, has resorted to online censorship in order to shield from criticism the faltering newspaper’s marginal reputation.
Progress “news” writer Brian McNeill, often biased and inaccurate in his reporting penned a story for the November 20, 2009 edition [...]
Del. Phil Hamilton lost his reelection bid earlier this month, I was relieved to see–voters saw fit to hand him his hat for lining his own pockets with taxpayer dollars (or so it appears). Democrat Robin Abbott won the Peninsula district with 54% of the vote. Like every other [...]
In what has become a time-honored tradition at the Charlottesville, Virginia office of Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello, police were dispatched (this time in advance) to disband a scheduled citizen demonstration there.
The Charlottesville Police Department, after consultation with Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney and “machine” Democrat [...]
General contractor, James K. McKelvey, has joined a crowded field of GOP contenders trying to unseat one-term Democrat Congressman, Tom Perriello, in Virginia’s 5th district.
McKelvey’s campaign will focus on term limits, energy independence, and tax reform.
James McKelvey will announce his intentions and discuss his campaign for Congress on the [...]
Teabagger Nigel Coleman on why he’s cancelled his plans to burn Rep. Tom Perriello in effigy:
I feel like I obviously handled this poorly, as far as the press goes. We really should have thought this through more … and seen how this was going to affect not only us, [...]
The Americans for Prosperity (AFP) “Hands Off My Health Care” tour stopped at soon-to-be-former Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville office this morning to lead a protest against socialized medicine.
In the aftermath of Perriello’s YES vote on nationalized health care, outraged citizens and voters of Virginia’s [...]
The Jefferson Area Tea Party will be holding a “Purge Perriello” protest rally at the Charlottesville office of Congressman Tom Perriello, 313 2nd Street SE (see map below). To find the office, follow the “green” line from the Water Street Parking garage, around the corner [...]
A powerful documentary film, a joint project of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and the Community Idea Stations (public television in Virginia), had its theatrical premiere at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville on Saturday, November 7.Congressman Tom Perriello, a highly skilled and silver-tongued snake-oil salesman is stuck in a healthcare moment, and he can’t get out of it.
After nearly a year of attempting to bamboozle all of the people, all of the time, the clock is running out on Tom’s [...]
Following is the complete text of Peter Van der linde’s November 2, 2009 memorandum to Charlottesville City Council, refuting charges made by the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority in their lawsuit against Van der linde Recycling:
MEMORANDUM #1
TO: CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: PETER VAN DER LINDE
SUBJECT: FACTS SURROUNDING RSWA’S SUIT AGAINST PETER VAN [...]
We, the undersigned, hereby urge Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) board members, Supervisor Ken Boyd (representing Albemarle County) and Councilor David Brown (representing Charlottesville City) to instruct the RSWA to immediately drop its lawsuit against Van der linde Recycling.
We find the lawsuit to be unfounded in fact, unjustifiable in its [...]
On this Guy Fawkes' Day, it is appropriate to celebrate an internationally-known political blogger who has assumed the persona of Guy -- or "Guido" -- Fawkes in his attempts to engage, stimulate, influence, and taunt conservative debate and discussion in the United Kingdom.
Steve Shannon ran this ad in the last month of his campaign:
If those IP addresses are an indicator of Steve Shannon’s technical prowess, I don’t think he was going to catch those child pornographers after all. Here’s a screenshot, if you missed it:
This is a bit [...]
What a long, long day!As I watch the first of the results of the election come in, I’m struck by the wide variety of options of websites offering data. Until this election, we’ve been left obsessively reloading the SBE’s website, hopping around from precinct to precinct, district to district, trying to remember what the [...]
In a flagrant and unequivocal election-day violation of the code of Virginia, Albemarle County Board of Supervisors Chairman, David Slutzky’s campaign has illegally placed “Slutzky for Supervisor” signs in the public right-of-way along Route 29 North in order to assist his re-election effort.
Virginia Code, section 33.1-373 states:
Any person [...]
On Saturday evening, I posted a photograph of five candidates for the GOP congressional nomination in Virginia's Fifth District. All five are campaigning for the privilege of facing incumbent Representative Tom Perriello (R-Ivy) in the general election of November 2010.For all of y’all blogging about the election on Tuesday on the sorts of blogs read by people who don’t read blogs like this one (that is, people who aren’t huge politics geeks), provide them with this where-to-vote widget, or just link to the version on Google’s site. [...]
In the name of Bradley Rees, we pray.
Dear God, we thank you for your bounty of stupid. In what promises to be a lousy month for Virginia Democrats, you have been fit to deliver to us Bradley Rees. In your wisdom, you have arranged for Rep. Tom Perriello to [...]
In a highly unethical move on the eve of a City Council election, the Charlottesville Democrat “machine” (including Charlottesville City Council and City Government) are using the taxpayer-funded Charlottesville City Communications Department to assist Democrat Dave Norris (and by association, his Democrat running mate, [...]
Bradley Rees, the initial Republican challenger to enter the Virginia 5th District Congressional race to unseat Democrat Tom Perriello, will announce this evening that he is exiting the field of Republican candidates.
Rees, frustrated with insider GOP political maneuvers, may choose to reenter the race as a 3rd party candidate. [...]
Hot on the heels of bald-faced lie #1 in which she publicly “promised” to “never attack Rob Bell personally” and then promptly violated that commitment, Democrat Cynthia Neff is at it again. This latest aspersion appears in the pages of the 10/28/09 Daily Progress.
Neff, who [...]
Can we all agree that the notion of either gubernatorial candidate being a “jobs governor” (as McDonnell has branded himself) is fundamentally bullshit? A governor has a very limited capacity to create jobs. I will buy that it’s possible that a governor, over the course of four years, can woo [...]
A couple of items from today's Daily Progress deserve comment because of their infelicitous use of the English language (which, as Henry Higgins put it, is the language of "Shakespeare, Milton, and the Bible").There’s a little nugget in The Daily Progress’ unsurprising endorsement of Ken Cuccinelli for attorney general that I just want to post here, so that we can all look back on it in the years ahead, assuming that Cuccinelli wins next week:
Mr. Cuccinelli seems to have a better grasp [...]
