Blue Virginia - Virginia

Teiro, Protect Your Family Against Ken's Whimsy

Dan Sullivan — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:33:30 GMT

While it is patently obvious that both Bob McDonnell and Ken Cuccinelli can be had rather cheaply, there are other matters that concern your family more than the people of the Commonwealth. Ken is a horrible judge of character. He's an even worse investor. We're talking your children's futures here.
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Shad Planking May Have Seen Its Day

Dan Sullivan — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:00:15 GMT

Shad Planking was a disappointment yesterday for any of a number of reasons. Leading up to the event, the sponsors failed to stem years of cumulative attendee alienation. Responding to criticism of extremism among participants, the Ruritans alienated the other half. Ken Cuccinelli's keynote was as flat as the shad.
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Walking Away From Wakefield

Dan Sullivan — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:20:37 GMT

Last month, passing through Memphis, I read Sunday morning's The Commercial Appeal. Striking was how well in a single issue it gave a sense of the city and its people, something uncommon in a Virginia newspaper. And one column caught my particular attention; it reminded me about Shad Planking.
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CCAN mounts a brilliant ad campaign against the fossil fuel Goliath of VA, Dominion VA Power

Progressive86 — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:23:29 GMT

To Increase Costs or Not to Increase Costs On Energy Use: Increase Costs!

Progressive86 — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:33:24 GMT

Evolution on the issue of same-sex marriage doesn't make up for Stone Age views on the environment

Progressive86 — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:48:30 GMT

MCBQ Shooting is a Wakeup Call: Let's Truly Get To Know Our Country's Military Personnel

Progressive86 — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:17:02 GMT

Yes Virginia, There Is a GreenTech Automotive

Dan Sullivan — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:18:41 GMT

Frankly, the fact that GreenTech didn't "finish" the application for incentives from Virginia was fallout from the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) skepticism. Incentives are not stand alone traps for private sector prey. They are bait in the economic tackle box at the ready when the Commonwealth goes courting.
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Governor McDonnell's Legacy: A Lower Bond Rating

Dan Sullivan — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:56:37 GMT

Try as he might, Governor McDonnell has been unable to stem a rising tide of debt despite claiming budget surpluses each year he has been in office. Gimmicks like underfunding the Virginia Retirement System and the attempted liquidation of the ABC stores were smokescreens. This will be the McDonnell legacy.
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Mark Obenshain Stakes Out the Cuccinelli Legacy

Dan Sullivan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:28:00 GMT

State Senator Mark Obenshain (R-26th) is proud to be on board with his former seatmate, Ken Cuccinelli. Carrying on a tradition of pursuing a personal social agenda rather than the people's business is his objective. Something old, something new, something borrowed could make Virginia's next Attorney General blue.
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Ken Cuccinelli, kookoo for confrontation, but he might be right on transportation compromise

Progressive86 — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:48:50 GMT

Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's book signing indicative of potential governorship: security galore!

Progressive86 — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:52:05 GMT

McDonnell's No Education Governor!

Elaine in Roanoke — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:21:38 GMT

So, Bob McDonnell sent for a couple of his Republican buddies to sell his "plan" to improve Virginia K-12 education. First, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush joined him to tout the A-F grading system for schools, and then he appeared with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to praise for-profit take-over of what are labeled as "failing schools." (By the way, Jeb Bush has been accused of pushing state laws that benefit the companies donating to his " Foundation for Excellence in Education.")
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Virginia News Headlines: Saturday Morning

lowkell — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:57:22 GMT

Here are a few Virginia (and national) news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, February 9. Also see the video of President Obama's weekly address, in which he "urges Congress to act to avoid a series of harmful and automatic cuts-called a sequester-from going into effect that would hurt our economy and the middle class and threaten thousands of American jobs."
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A Virginia Front Opens in the War on Public Education

Dan Sullivan — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:03:17 GMT

The fellas who brought you war without end and the collapse of the financial sector have turned their attention to another low hanging fruit in our common yard: education. You'll recognize some of the names. You'd best understand the financial gains that drive their proposals for "innovation."
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No Banking on Shad Planking

Dan Sullivan — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:53:23 GMT

Shad Planking tickets are on sale. Last year the event was snubbed by Senator Kaine, leaving George Allen the featured speaker. Bill Bolling's campaign poured a lot of beer. Four years ago, T-Mac made a splash, but like Allen and Bolling, it mattered not. The event is a sideshow.
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Think Happy Thoughts: the Mental Aspects of Stemming Worst Effects of Climate Change

Progressive86 — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:49:50 GMT

Preposterous Proposals Proliferate

Dan Sullivan — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:36:19 GMT

We're living a cartoon. One character puts up his dukes and the adversary pulls out brass knuckles, then escalation each in turn through a knife, pistol, rifle, machinegun, cannon, tank... It goes where arming and armoring schools goes: no constructive advantage. Cost without benefit other than political cover.
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McDonnell Does It Again - Shuns Our Own Money

Dan Sullivan — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:18:50 GMT

Remember squandering $126 million in federal unemployment money from recovery funding? Yesterday McDonnell proposed stripping $1 billion from the 2012-14 budget adopted by the General Assembly; federal dollars earmarked to provide health insurance for 400,000 low-income Virginians during implementation of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion.
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Now Is the Time for That Discussion About Guns

Dan Sullivan — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:53:42 GMT

Let's begin that discussion about guns: the current application of our Second Amendment protects the proliferation of weapons. At the time it was written, it was damn difficult to kill with them, though Aaron Burr managed not long thereafter. That amendment was never meant to aid and abet carnage.
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