It’s now official: Chris Rey is running for Phil Hamilton’s seat in the House of Delegates.
Hamilton, whose 93rd district includes parts of James City and Newport News, is Vice-Chair of the Appropriations Committee and hasn’t faced an opponent since 1995?! So why is Rey running? It may have something to do with the fact that Obama […]

For the Stafford Democrats first annual Jefferson/Jackson Dinner. For more info on the event, click here.
      

President Obama’s first trip aboard Air Force One will take him to Virginia’s 1st Congressional District. He’ll be speaking tomorrow night at the U.S. House Democratic Caucus retreat in Williamsburg at the Kingsmill Resort.
A few days ago Sarah Palin promised to do the same thing for the House Republicans at their Virginia retreat. But she […]

Last night Del. Albert Pollard introduced HB 2506 before the House Commerce & Labor subcommittee on Energy:
Authorizes investor-owned electric utilities to recover, through a rate adjustment clause, the costs of designing and operating energy efficiency programs that have the effect of decreasing the total amount of energy used over time and of delaying the need […]

Hopefully DCCC Chair Chris Van Hollen knows something about The Overdog™ that I don’t.
Of the 5 GOP Congressman left in Virginia, Eric Cantor won by the largest margin in 2008. Rob Wittman, who faced a last minute replacement challenger in the 1st, won by the smallest margin among the victorious Republicans. Yes even Frank Wolf, who was a […]

Last year Republicans sported signs that said: ‘Country First’. This year, they’re rooting for the President of the United States to fail during one of the toughest times in our country’s history. Nowhere is this blatant and intentionally divisive attitude more evident than in the House of Representatives in D.C. and the House of Delegates in […]

The RPV’s top fundraiser just handed Del. Jeff Frederick (?-52) a Dear John Jeff letter.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Stafford County Sun:
The chief fundraiser for the Republican Party of Virginia is quitting, branding the GOP “dysfunctional.“
The departure of Walter M. Curt, a wealthy Shenandoah Valley businessman, is another setback for the party’s embattled chairman, Del. Jeffrey […]

Last night:
I am seriously glad to be here tonight at the annual Alfalfa dinner. I know that many you are aware that this dinner began almost one hundred years ago as a way to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. If he were here with us tonight, the General would be 202 years […]

See for yourself why the junior Senator from Missouri was widely hailed as Obama’s top surrogate in 2008.

I think know I’m in love….