Thursday, September 9, 2010
Thanks to a neighbor for scouring the Internet to find the City of Newport News fiscal year 2011 budget. City officials in Newport News have kept their vision for its citizens and tourists. They successfully run Newport News Golf Club at Deer Run. The fund breaks even as best as I can read this. CLICK on the images twice to enlarge.Filed Under: Technology 3 Comments
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Tom Perriello 5th district congressman is not gaining ground against his Republican opponent Robert Hurt. Perriello’s slim victory against Virgil Goode in 2008 looks to turn into a not so narrow loss in 2010. The latest poll conducted by WDBJ7 shows Perriello trailing Hurt 61% to 35%. No improvement over a previous poll. Though Perriello pulled from [...]
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
It was all over but the crying or in some cases the drinking Tuesday night. The results were quick to come in and by 8:00 it was clear that the Roanoke City Council election was another Democratic sweep. At Fork in the City gathered Bob Craig and Tony Walker with their supporters. Craig though glum [...]
Friday, April 30, 2010
In round one and “Part One” video here the dreaded “MAILER” that Democratic candidate Bill Bestpitch sent to Roanoke citizens last week provoked the three Republican candidates. You could almost hear someone yell out “you lie” as Congressman Joe Wilson did to President Barack Obama during the State of the Union Address. Bestpitch had quite [...]
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Prior to Thursday night’s forum hosted by the Roanoke Chapter of the NAACP the Roanoke Valley Democratic Women held their annual Wine and Cheese fundraiser at the Ramada Inn on Franklin Road. One Democratic candidate took the opportunity to hit the Republican candidate(s) hard. As reported by Mason Adams of The Roanoke Times – on [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
According to the registrar the primary will cost the city $40,000. The filing fee for each candidate was 2% of a council member’s salary that came to $296.32. Since I am the publisher, owner of this website I will take a hiatus while being a candidate. In the meantime I will be posting city issues on [...]
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Councilman Dave Trinkle announced today he will run for reelection to a Roanoke City council seat. He will seek nomination for one of three seats in the March 2 Democratic primary. Dr. Trinkle who is a geriatric psychiatrist for Carilion hospitals ran as an independent along with Gwen Mason and Alfred Dowe, Jr. four years [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
THURSDAY NIGHT TWEETS BELOW – At the Roanoke City Democratic Committee reorganization Thursday night the rules were passed out with an attachment. The attachment had a list of “suggested” members who should be voted into the committee. The new Democratic chair is Roanoke Commonwealth Attorney, Don Caldwell. The districts were reduced from eleven to six [...]
Friday, December 4, 2009
Finally pinned down Mayor David Bowers said Thursday that he plans to attend the December 10 reorganization of the Roanoke City Democratic Committee. He will vie for a precinct captain slot in his Jefferson 2 precinct. The by-laws were changed at the last Democratic committee meeting reducing membership from over 100 to 60 (not counting about 15 ex-officios). Eleven districts [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
RICHMOND: Delegate Onzlee Ware (D-11) made the trip to Richmond to appear at a meeting of Virginia’s State Board of Elections Monday. In a phone call Campaign Finance Manager, David Allen confirmed that Ware did not contest the allegation but asked for a reduction in the $1000 fine. The $1000 was assessed as a resulted of [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Virginia’s State Board of Elections will take up a recommendation by David Allen, Campaign Finance Manager and either confirm or dismiss the allegation at the November 23 meeting of the Board. The $1000 fine in plain English though full of technicalities is for failure of Delegate Onzlee Ware (D-11) to add a disclosure statement on [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
In the waning days of the Virginia’s gubernatorial campaigns Democrats felt victory slip-sliding away. Some tried to keep their enthusiasm but each poll was like a dagger in their heart. Pundits were already beginning to do postmortems as the Deeds Wagner Shannon ticket sank further with each poll. The State Democratic ticket never developed a [...]
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Republican incumbent 8th District Delegate and Majority Leader Morgan Griffith handily won reelection Tuesday with 69% of the vote. He was challenged by Democrat Carter Turner. Griffith in his victory speech said of those who didn’t vote for him to “come and sit down and talk … if we disagree we can at least be friends.” [...]
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
RICHMOND – Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for Governor, released the following statement about the election results. “I have said from the beginning that this election is about Virginia’s future, about bringing opportunity, prosperity, and hope to every corner of the Commonwealth. “Tonight, I’m humbled and gratified by the support and hard work [...]
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Teaming and ready for victory said Richard “Dickie” Cranwell Virginia Democratic Party chair at an 8:30 Roanoke Rally held at Fire Station No. 1 in downtown Roanoke. Governor Tim Kaine led of followed by Steve Shannon the Attorney General candidate, Jody Wagner the Lt. Governor candidate and finally Creigh Deeds candidate for governor. Shannon called [...]
