Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
UPDATE Sept. 2, 9:52 p.m. tweet from @KenCuccinelli Awesome day with two townhall mtgs (abingdon+rocky mount) on electric rates + cap and trade; then helping HURT periello! After clearly stating that his town halls were not political (see Joe Dashiell’s WDBJ7 report CLICK HERE) Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli tweets this … so what did he [...]
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Governor Bob McDonnell arrived at Steel Dynamics at noon on Wednesday. Steel Dynamics Vice President and General Manager Joe Crawford and Charles Hunter Chair of the Roanoke Economic Development Authority and Dennis Cronk CEO of Poe & Cronk Real Estate Group greeted the governor. Vice-Mayor David Trinkle introduced Governor McDonnell and touted Roanoke’s two exiting [...]
Monday, June 21, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC – Today Congressman Bob Goodlatte called the $50.9 million renovation of the Richard H. Poff Federal Building in Roanoke a waste of taxpayer dollars and strongly requested that the project be halted before further taxpayer funds are wasted. Funds for the Poff Federal Building renovation were designated from appropriations made in the American [...]
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Elmwood Park will host another Roanoke Tea Party event on July 4. “The past year has seen a divisive and deeply partisan political environment develop across the US, and in our beloved Roanoke Valley. When issues are large and differences great, such passions can’t help but be inflamed,” said the press release sent Wednesday. This [...]
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
As proposed, the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors meeting room would be used for “government purposes only.” That leaves the Roanoke County Republican and Democratic Committees out in the cold. At Tuesday’s 3:00 p.m. board meeting the county attorney, Paul Mahoney prepared a policy that would limit use of the board’s meeting room to board [...]
Thursday, May 20, 2010
UVA gets July 26 extension for climate documents demanded by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli – see press release below. In Roanoke on July 4, 2009 then candidate for attorney general Ken Cuccinelli said, “You’ve got an attorney general that will fight with Washington.” Voters can’t say he didn’t warn them. Below is a recent press release [...]
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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 [...]
Monday, April 26, 2010
Feda Morton, Fluvanna County biology teacher and Republican activist was endorsed Friday by the FRC Action PAC, the political action committee connected to Family Research Council Action. Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council and Chairman of the FRC Action PAC in convinced that Morton “has proven that she is a true friend of [...]
Friday, April 16, 2010
Nary a disruption or ill-mannered disrespectful sign could be found. Some signs were funny, some serious and some analogous to their feelings about being Taxed Enough Already (TEA). The question is did the estimated 500 people file their federal tax forms on this symbolic April 15 TEA day? Roanoke City resident Blake Medding was anxious to [...]
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The troubadour paid a satirical visit to the Reagan Dinner fundraiser Saturday night. The headliner was Lt. Governor Bill Bolling but Steve Mabry stole the show with his troubadour roast of Gwen Mason. The Roanoke city Councilwoman ran for retiring William Fralin’s seat for the 17th District against Republican Bill Cleaveland. Cleaveland won handily and Mabry [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
In a press release from Freda Morton, Fluvanna County Republican candidate for the 5th District Congressional nomination: “Six out of seven of the Republican candidates for the nomination for the U. S. House of Representatives from Virginia’s 5th Congressional District have notified unit chairs throughout the district that they prefer having that nomination made at [...]
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