I think I am probably the only person that reads this site that this applies too, but there is a special election coming up on December 11th, for VA-1, US Congress. This includes the Fredericksburg area, through the Northern Neck, and on down to Williamsburg and environs. Our Representative, Jo Ann Davis (R), died, kind of unexpectedly, of breast cancer a few months ago. This is the election to replace her.

There are three people running, a Republican, a Democrat, and an Independent. Here are their websites:

Rob Wittman (R)
Philip Forgit (D)
Lucky Narain (I)

Wikipedia on the race

It tends to be pretty conservative here in the 1st District, and most of the competition to Rep. Davis (who had something like a 97% conservative rating) tended to be people who felt she wasn’t conservative enough. Apparently though, there’s at least some money being sunk into the race.

I haven’t seen any road signs or mailings yet, though.

Check this out.

Apparently, in order to vote in the Republican primaries in Virginia next year, voters will be required to sign an oath of loyalty to the eventual nominee. You will swear to vote for whichever Republican wins, according to the story.

Sooooo, say you are pro-life. So you vote for Huckabee or something. But then Giuliani wins the nomination. You’ve sworn to vote for him, even though he is pro-choice. Oops.

The Virginia GOP has had a thing for a while about being afraid people are going to sabotage their primaries. Closing them up was an issue in the last gubernatorial election. Now, they (SBE or GOP? I don’t know) just schedule them the same day to make people choose one party or the other. I guess that’s not enough for them, so now they are demanding oaths of fealty, like it’s the middle ages or something. There’s no way to enforce it, besides honor, but seriously WTF.

I assure you the video is way better than this still, but I currently am not allowed to show the video to anyone. You’ll have to deal.

Oh wait he did! He talks about leaving the RTD/Brick and other awesome type things.

Also if you are bored, check out this interview we did with Pete ages ago.

Richmond’s queen foodie, Brandon of Brandon Eats, has graced RVANews with her delectable (get it?) foodie wisdom. This go around she gives everyone one more reason not to move to New York: pomegranate molasses.

Until last week (some sort of asian/jerked/spicy chicken wing concoction) I never even knew you cold still buy molasses. Something about it seems vaguely racist: my suspicions were confirmed.

Anyway.

Last night while penning a piece for RVANewsI heard some shouting and footsteps running down the street. It sounded different than the normal “I’m yelling at you because you are far away and for some reason I can’t wait until we are closer to tell you this really great thing” that is pretty much the norm in our neighborhood. I looked out the window to see three or so cop cars parked in the middle of the street.

About ten minutes later one cop came back with a shoe.

I went out and asked what was going on. Nonchalantly he said “Oh no biggy, just a foot pursuit.” Uhh wtf?

They caught more of the guy than his shoe I hear.

FINALLY. Uh! Why does it always take me a full week to get the newest google jamz? Scott always gets them way before me. EVEN THOUGH I (probably) INVITED HIM TO GMAIL IN THE FIRST PLACE.

But seriously folks. The new gmail looks almost identical — although they’ve tightened up the typography I think. It must be a bunch of little things, because it seems nicer to look at overall. The biggest improvements must be under the hood as it feels more responsive to my clix.

That word looks dirty.