You bet. Not hyperbole, not just ‘stretching the truth’. Washington Post Fairfax sheriff candidate’s ad draws angry responses  11/6/2011 Fairfax County Republican sheriff’s candidate Bill Cooper published a half-page ad in the Connection newspapers Friday [www.ConnectionNewspapers.com, November 3-9, 2011 pg. 6], four days before the election, stating he was ”Supported by Deputies, Police Officers and
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Bob Lewis, AP writer reporting on Virginia politics and government since 2000, in his article October 16th “What a GOP Senate might mean for new Virginia laws” details what realistically could happen if Virginians think voting GOP wouldn’t have real consequences. It’s one thing to talk generically about the vastly different philosophy of the Democratic
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2011 has been a vociferous year for Fairfax County Public School Board candidates. Outgoing FCPS school board member Stu Gibson (Hunter Mill) describes the clamoring groups well in his Reston Patch commentary: They have formed a number of different organizations, each to address one or more perceived slights. They have banded together into a coalition,
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by Todd Smyth published in TheDemocrat – October 2011 ‘The Newsletter of the Fairfax County Democratic Committee’ The Republican solution to fix our economy is more of what took us off the cliff in the first place.  It was Republican deregulation and tax cuts in the Bush administration that took our economy down, and now
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It begins … Poor signature could disqualify Va. absentee ballots (see the full article below) Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote. It is distinguished from political campaigning in that campaigning attempts to change likely voting behavior by changing
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First, there is no actual political party called the Tea Party. That a co-opted and ill-informed segment of the population refers to their affiliation with this political astroturf word wizardry funded by the rabidly anti-Obama Koch Brothers is a sad thing. They’re not grass roots – corporate America faked a grass roots revolution. The so-called
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Please be careful about the context and perspective of your news sources. That is not to say that quotes are inaccurate or facts are wrong, but the political persuasion techniques are getting more sophisticated and are an evolution of conservative news media that we’ve seen over the last decade. Below are some conservative content sources that are
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Virginia House of Delegates Democratic Leader Ward Armstrong Response to Governor Bob McDonnell’s State of the Commonwealth Address I want to begin by offering my deepest condolences to the victims and the families who were affected by Saturday’s tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona. The thoughts and prayers of millions of Virginians and Americans are with
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by Senator Chap Petersen (D-34th), OxRoadSouth.com This year (2010) is the U.S. Census, which means that next year (2011) will see a special session dedicated to drawing boundaries for new Congressional and legislative districts. Virginia is somewhat unique in that (i) we have a split in power in the legislature and (ii) the Department of Justice has
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Bob McDonnell continues down a path that for the most part is one giant red herring – ABC store privatization. Republican’s view of government and privatization should be well known by now to favor big business without regard for the health and welfare of the citizenry, but when a blockheaded proposal to gamble with children’s
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