WASHINGTON, DC – June 17, 2011 – The Board of Directors of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) announced today that Harris N. Miller, CEO and President for the past four years, has decided to resign, effective today, June 17, 2011. Brian Moran, APSCU’s Executive Vice President of Government Affairs and General
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Osama bin Laden brought to justice A Virginia-based Navy SEAL team succeeded in bringing terrorist leader Osama bin Laden to justice after a nearly decade-long manhunt. Leaders from all parties across the country praised President Obama and the men and women of our armed forces and intelligence community for their leadership in bringing bin Laden
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Supreme Court rejects Cuccinelli’s health care request The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Ken Cuccinelli’s request to expedite the Court’s consideration of his legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Cuccinelli will now take his personal political crusade through the regular appeals process, and Virginians will continue footing the bill. To read more about our litigious
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Welcome to the DPVA Weekly Top 5, your review of the top five stories from the past week and a look at what’s ahead. 1.    McDonnell’s Transportation Plan Inspires Bipartisan Anxiety  The Appropriations Committees of the House of Delegates held a hearing to consider Bob McDonnell’s deficit-spending transportation plan. The overwhelming theme of the hearing
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Happy New Year! Thanks for checking out the first DPVA Weekly Top 5 of 2011, your weekly look at the top 5 news items from last week and what’s coming up for Virginia Democrats. 1. Bob Marshall Continues to Embarrass Virginia Bob Marshall’s one-man effort to maintain the discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy in
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Bob McDonnell’s plan to borrow $4 billion dollars to pay for road funding projects is an example of the same gimmicky approach to government that led to the demise of his plan to privatize the state’s ABC program. The Governor’s plan borrows billions of dollars we don’t have at a time when Virginia taxpayers are
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cross-posted from Washington Post online By Rosalind Helderman |  June 30, 2009; 4:48 PM ET  | Category:  Rosalind Helderman The Democratic Party of Virginia has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine to the Federal Election Commission, related to deficiencies in the party’s financial disclosure forms dating to 2006. The FEC reports that they found problems
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Levar Stoney has taken a leave of absence from the DPVA (Democratic Party of Virginia) to join the Deeds campaign as Political Director. I am excited to announce that Leigh Anne Collier will be filling in as Interim Executive Director through November.  Leigh Anne should be a familiar face to many of you – she
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Quarterly meeting of the State Central Committee Saturday, June 13th 10:00 am in Williamsburg, VA at the the Sadler Center in the Chesapeake Room on the College of William and Mary’s campus in historic Williamsburg (map, click here). Take exit 238, follow signs toward Colonial Williamsburg Take a right at the 2nd traffic light onto
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cross-posted from DemRulz Chairman Richard Cranwell and Northern Virginia elected Democrats addressed a rally today in Annandale, down the road from the Republican gubernatorial candidate’s announcement.  Cranwell praised all three Democratic candidates, recalled the successes of the Warner and Kaine administrations (best managed state in the country, etc.), and made it clear that the GOP
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