I'm very happy that my friend Scott Surovell is going to Richmond in January 2010 to represent the 44th House of Delegates district. In fact, Scott's election on November 3 was one of the only bright spots on an otherwise disastrous day for Democrats. Anyone who knows Scott' [...] 
Twitter from Del. Chris Saxman in Highland County this morning....Fresh off the news that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (i.e. the stimulus act) has created over a dozen new Congressional districts (I’m running in the new 00 district myself), it looks like Chairman R. Allen Webb of the 99th House of Delegates Republican Committee has created [...]
Bobby Mathieson should accuse McWaters of plagiarism. Hours before the Thanksgiving holiday, mailboxes throughout the 8th Senate district got their holiday cheer, an attack by McWaters on Rosemary Wilson which sounds exactly like Democrat Bobby Mathieson’s recent failed attacks on Delegate-elect Ron Villanueva about City Council [...]
I know its veeeeery early to talk about this, but VPAP just updated their website with a fascinating look at statewide vote breakdowns based on both delegate and senate districts. The common theme among close districts that are represented by Democrats is that they are coming home. Many went for [...]
Posted by The Green MilesThe Virginia House of Delegates’ Democratic and Republican caucuses each elected their leadership for the 2010 General Assembly session over the weekend.
The Republican caucus, strengthened after picking up at least five seats in the House this month, re-elected Speaker of the House William J. Howell, R-Stafford.
They also voted [...]
Phil Hamilton resigns.Effective November 15th, Del. Phil Hamilton has resigned from the House of Delegates.
Hamilton lost his effort for re-election a few weeks ago to Robin Abbott, but continued to be investigated by a House committee and a federal grand jury.
My information is that since Hamilton is now [...]
Less than two weeks after being narrowly elected to an open seat, Mark Keam is already showing his true partisan stripes. Consider this twitter exchange:
Keam: After Freshman orientation this morning, Gov. Kaine spoke to Caucus. We’re going to miss him and his leadership. Thanks for 4 great years!
That was the organization name given to the City of Virginia Beach in a Freedom of Information Act request this week, according to multiple trusted sources.
That begs the question. Either the FOIA request was supposed to be for Mathieson for Delegate and someone spelled Delegate “C-o-n-g-r-e-s-s” [...]
I've been calling around for feedback from House of Delegates Democrats on their caucus retreat in Henrico County this weekend. A few interesting tidbits so far:
During the Brigades meeting last night I had several conversations with grassroots activists who spoke about the work they had done to get David Englin elected to the House of Delegates back in 2005. They brought this up as way of pointing out some of the [...] 
