Wednesday, May 22, 2013
March 2012: This is Part One of my hour long interview with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli prior to his Roanoke town hall on electric rates last Tuesday. It was a close quarters one on one interviw in a small conference room the size of a closet at his Peters Creek Road Roanoke office. The door was closed [...]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
This is Part Two of my hour-long interview with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli last week (March 2012) in his Roanoke office. Here he answers questions on Virginia’s portion of the home mortgage settlement award, Voter ID, UVA reimbursement and he gives Senate Democrats a kick for good measure. Of the home mortgage settlement funds $66.5 million will [...]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
In Part III see the video below shot at the VCOG Annual Meeting in October 2009 when he was running for Attorney General. March, 2012: Cuccinelli first saw the printed copy of the Center for Public Integrity report that gave Virginia an “F” during an interview with the Roanoke Free Press last Tuesday. He dismissed the [...]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Four Part hour interview with AG Ken Cuccinelli March, 2012 Caps on donations: As far as the Center for Public Integrity’s complaint that Virginia had no caps on campaign contributions Cuccinelli doesn’t agree but if there was it should be very high he said. “I’d have a real problem picking some line to reign in [...]
Monday, May 20, 2013
Just a handful of people signed up for the public hearing on city council’s proposed 28.5% pay raise Monday evening. One of those was former council member Rupert Cutler who supported council giving themselves a pay raise. Cutler said he was speaking from experience and that there was “more to serving [on council] than meets [...]
Monday, May 20, 2013
The Republican ticket of Ken Cuccinelli for governor, E. W. Jackson for lieutenant governor and Sen. Mark Obenshain for attorney general started barnstorming the state the day after Saturday’s convention. They touched down Monday morning in Roanoke at Landmark Aviation. It’s all about keeping the momentum going from Saturday’s exhaustive energetic convention and coalescing around [...]
Sunday, May 19, 2013
A twelve-hour day started late as participants squeezed through two coliseum entrance checkpoints instead of the expected twelve. Over 8500 convention goers and credentialed delegates filled the Richmond coliseum at Saturday’s Virginia Republican convention. The guest speaker was Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had no contest and was easily declared the [...]
Friday, May 17, 2013
In an email from Ed Elswick, Roanoke County Board of Supervisor Windsor District wrote, “politics may have been involved but against me because of the Roanoke Chamber [of Commerce]“ He said that the Chamber was against it because they were supporting his opponent. “The comment from [Supervisor Mike] Altizer that it would prevent the sheriff [...]
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
JUST IN: In a unanimous decision tonight by the Roanoke City Republican Committee, Roger Malouf will be the Republican candidate for the Commissioner of Revenue. He will face incumbent Democrat Sherman Holland. This is the only Republican that has stepped forward. No one for Treasurer or Commonwealth Attorney. See who he is and check the [...]
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Virginia Mainstream Project will focus on electing mainstream, conservative Republicans to public office and promote responsible policy solutions to the most important challenges facing the Commonwealth- RICHMOND – Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling today announced the formation of the Virginia Mainstream Project. The Virginia Mainstream Project is a state-based political action committee that will focus on [...]
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
One of those pesky facts that have been left out of the discussion regarding city council pay raises. Thanks to the director of finance, Anne Shawver’s response for adding clarity to the discussion. At the May 1 Roanoke City Council meeting either not heard by other media or ignored Shawver off the top of her [...]
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The build up to breaking the Roanoke County Republican Primary tie between Al Bedrosian and Mike Bailey for the nomination came and went quickly Tuesday Morning. It was sort of anticlimactic. You could see the puzzled and worried looks on Republican Party officials as 40 minutes ticked by with no announcement. A guard was at [...]
