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Why I’m Giddy About the 11th

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Gerry Connolly is the heavy favorite now to pick up a seat for Democrats in VA’s 11th congressional district. Tom Davis has owned the seat for the past 14 years starting, predictably, in the GOP landslide year of 1994. For years Davis was considered a rising star in the Republican Party and has been eye-balling […]



Pollard: The Governor as Business Manager of Virginia

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Governor as Business Manager of Virginia
Rewritten By Delegate Albert C. Pollard, Jr.
June 10, 2008 – In 1942, Blake Tyler Newton – not yet a State Senator from our region – wrote House Document 12, The Governor of Virginia as Business Manager. This publication, a copy of which I recently found amongst some old books, […]



Chichester Co-Founds Virginians for Warner

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jun 11th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

It’s been a great June so far for Jim Gilmore <sarcasm alert!>. Earlier this month, Mark Warner impressed the newsroom at the Free Lance-Star when he talked to them about his ideas for his first term as a United States Senator. Republican Sen. John Warner has refused to endorse Gilmore for Senate. And to top it […]



Webb’s ‘Anger’: Myth Busted

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Eve Fairbanks from The New Republic has just penned an article that effectively shatters the myth that Sen. Jim Webb, a leading candidate for Vice President, is an angry, red-faced hothead with a hair-trigger temper.
In the spring of 2006, Jim Webb was not yet a rising superstar. In fact, he was late getting started and low on […]



Republicans Chichester, Callahan Endorse Mark Warner for Senate

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Wow.
According to the The Washington Post, Republicans Vince Callahan and John Chichester will officially endorse Democrat Mark Warner for Senate on Monday.
Fairfax County Republican Vincent F. Callahan Jr., former chairman of the Virginia House Appropriations Committee and onetime ally of James S. Gilmore III, said he would announce Monday that he is supporting Democrat Mark […]



11th District Voters: Pick Byrne on Tuesday

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

On Tuesday a Democratic primary will take place in the 11th congressional district that’s been receiving national attention. It’s a 4-person field but the real race is between former Congresswoman Leslie Byrne and Fairfax Co. BOS Chairman Gerry Connolly. With Rep. Tom Davis retiring after this year, and no big name Republican stepping up to replace him, the […]



An Eyewitness Account of Obama at Nissan Pavilion

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

John LeFabre, an active member of the Spotsylvania Democratic Committee, sent us this copy of an email he received from a fellow Spotsy Dem. I got a kick out of it, and I think you will too.
Yesterday Judi and Chris and I went to the Obama event at the Nissan Pavilion. After we passed through security (at […]



Hillary Clinton: “Yes We Can”

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Endorsements have been all the rage this campaign season. Every time another big name came out for Barack Obama people wondered: Is this the one? Is this the endorsement that will send him over the top? No offense to Ted Kennedy or Bill Richardson or John Edwards….but THIS was the big one. June 7, 2008.
Click here to watch Sen. […]



Webb Seeks Help For Virginia Crabbers

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Leadership. It’s what’s for dinner.
King George Journal Press:
United States Senator Jim Webb recently came forward as the leader of a bipartisan coalition of the Virginia Congressional Delegation that has asked U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez to make federal disaster assistance available to area crabbers.
Help is being sought in order to alleviate the impacts of […]



Sen. Deeds in Caroline Co. Saturday

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Sen. Creigh Deeds, a candidate for Governor in 2009, will join Caroline County Democrats at their monthly meeting at Aunt Sarah’s Pancake House, 23496 Welcome Way Drive in Ruther Glen this Saturday June 7th at 10am.