The results are in: Chris Peace 50.83% to John Montgomery’s 48.39%! For those of you not in the know, one of my friends Chris Peace ran for the 97th District seat in House of Delegates and, just tonight, won. First how cool is it that I know and hang out with a delegate? I mean [...]
Welcome regulars and guests to Haduken’s first, and Virginia’s umpteenth Virginia Blog Carnival. The VBC offers “just a sample of the topics Virginia bloggers have been writing about during the week. We hope everyone’s curiosity will be piqued to read more of the selected posts, thereby giving more exposure to each participating blogger’s site.” See [...]
Via Waldo. The poor guy running against nerd-champion Rick Boucher has sponsored this awesome bill: Unlawful assembly at solemn ceremonies; penalty. Any person or persons who picket or assemble in protest at or near any solemn ceremony in a loud or unruly manner intended to disrupt the ceremony and the peace or order, such that [...]
My wife and I receive the titular stickers after voting at John B. Cary — our Richmond City precinct. I stopped by at 8.30AM, greeted by maybe fifteen Democratic Party representatives trying to shove literature in my face. These were my actual words to them: No thanks, I’ve already got my…things. Wtf? I wonder what [...]
The election is over. So sad to see you go Mr. ElectionMan. What will the Virginia Blogosphere ever talk about now that you are gone? Below is who I voted for along with the winners. Governor: H. Russ Potts, Jr. (I) Winner: Timothy M. Kaine (D) Lt. Governor: William T. “Bill” Bolling (R) Winner: William [...]
NBC12 is reporting that Tim Kaine (D) will govern Virginia starting in January. How Democrats get elected in Virginia I will never know. Oh wait maybe the Republicans should field a decent candidate? Anyway, at this time the other two big races are two close to call. “Liberal Leslie Byrne” trails Bill Bolling, and Bob [...]
I VOTED Results, who I voted for, and impressions to follow tomorrow! Get out and vote peeps.
Hey, this is your reminder to vote tomorrow. Just get up in the morning and go do it. I don’t care who you vote for. In fact I would encourage you to write in “MaxPower” for each position. With enough support we can win this election! Here is a long winded summary of the candidates [...]
RMS and I attended the Tim Kaine rally this Sunday. Havoc attended too, but the unwashed masses prevented our meet up. He did however snap this great shot of the group on stage: Let’s get this straight. Barack Obama is a celebrity. People — including me — love that guy. He just doesn’t feel like [...]
Dudes. From VCU Young Democrats: Join rising star Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-3rd) and Virginia’s next governor Tim Kaine for a rally hosted by the VCU Young Democrats in the Commons Plaza. Show your support for Virginia’s Democratic ticket to keep our commonwealth moving forward. All eyes are on Virginia [...]
More politics! Yay! Yesterday the Coburn Amendment suffered a 82-15 vote against. Sad. For those of you not in the know, the Coburn amendment would have defunded (122M$) a bridge in Alaska that would connect a community of 8,000 to an island with a population of 50. The funds would then be applied to the [...]
FactCheck.org has an article up on their home page clarifying the whole Tim Kaine loves/hates Hitler thing. Basically Kilgore stretched and manipulated quotes from Tim Kaine to make it seem like Kaine thought Hitler didn’t deserve the death penalty. Turns out he didn’t say that at all — *gasp* a politician running a verifiably false [...]
Tim Kaine has started running these semi-attack ads attacking the previous Jerry Kilgore (R) attack ads. Attack Attack Attack. No mention of Hitler though.
A while back the Republican Party of Virginia changed some of their by laws so that anyone who had voted for a democrat in the last five years could not vote in a Republican primary. This would have moved Virginia from an open primary system (yay!) to a closed primary system (boo!). Luckily the courts [...]