DPVA Weekly Top 5 for April 12, 2011
Apr 12th, 2011 | By LDDC | Category: DPVA
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Moran offers a Democratic vision of the future
DPVA Chairman Brian Moran submitted an editorial to the Virginian-Pilot that laid out a Democratic vision for growing the economy and investing in working class families. He explained why Republican cuts to education and other institutions limit the promise of our society to provide equality of opportunity for every person. To read Brian Moran’s Virginian-Pilot guest column, click here.
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Cuccinelli opens the door for guns in churches
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli released an opinion yesterday stating that the Virginia law banning guns on churches does not prevent people from bringing them to house of worship ‘for self defense purposes.’ The Attorney General presumably still discourages bringing guns to church for purposes other than that, although he did not go out of his way to say so. To read more about Cuccinelli’s guns in churches opinion, click here.
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George Allen ‘steps on the issue of race’ again
Controversy arose last week when an African American news anchor tweeted that George Allen had asked him for the second time in 5 months “what position did you play?” The anchor responded in both cases that he did not play a sport. The issue led many to wonder, given Allen’s troubling record on race issues, whether he believes that all tall African American men play a sport of some kind. To read more about Allen’s racial blunderings, click here.
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Republicans use budget brinksmanship to advance radical social agenda
Republicans in the House of Representatives threatened to use a federal government shut down last week to force President Obama and congressional Democrats to accept several proposals, including cuts to federal funding for women’s health provider Planned Parenthood. The episode is just the latest in a running effort by the GOP to cut essential support for women’s health clinics. To read about Republicans holding the budget hostage over women’s health, click here. To read Chairman Brian Moran’s statement thanking Democrats for standing up for keeping women healthy, click here.
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Allen and Radtke mix it up over federal budget
Tea Party Senate candidate Jamie Radtke took on former Republican Senator George Allen this week over his refusal to say whether or not he supports the deal Republicans and Democrats struck to fund the federal government for the rest of the year. Allen was obviously uncomfortable supporting such a deal (thereby angering the Tea Partiers he is working so hard to please) or opposing it (thereby endorsing shutting down the federal government over funding for Planned Parenthood).Radtke (who opposes the deal) called Allen out for ducking several attempts to get him on the record, and thus motivated his campaign to release a statement saying he ‘reluctantly’ supported the deal. To read more about the extraordinary difficult George Allen is having being both a Tea Partier and a mainstream politician, click here.
