Cuccinelli-Jackson-Obenshain Will Take VA Backward Yesterday Virginians made history and nominated the most extreme statewide ticket this Commonwealth has ever seen. From banning birth control and forcing women to report miscarriages to police to comparing Planned Parenthood to the KKK, there is no arguing that Ken Cuccinelli, E.W. Jackson and Mark Obenshain are farther outside

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Richmond, VA – Virginia Senator Louise Lucas and DPVA Executive Director Lauren Harmon released the statements below today on Ken Cuccinelli’s record of threatening Virginia’s mainstream budget process with his extreme ideological agenda and how dangerous it would be for him to have the budgetary power of Virginia’s Governor. Today the Democratic Party of Virginia

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Virginia elections official has issues with law signed by governor last month. The vice chairwoman of the State Board of Elections says she has “some glaring issues” with the practicality and cost of Virginia’s new photo ID legislation for voting that Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law last month. more …

In the past month so much has taken place in the area of voter rights and election protection: Fairfax County Bipartisan Election Process Improvement Commission, President Obama’s Commission on Improving Vote Process, Brennan Center Voting Laws Roundup, Prince William County Election Process Task Force Hearing, Rep. Cummings and Members Ask GAO to Study Voting Delays (Virginia and Florida). More …

Washington Post, February 24 — The White House on Sunday detailed how the deep spending cuts set to begin this week would affect programs in every state and the District, as President Obama launched a last-ditch effort to pressure congressional Republicans to compromise on a way to stop the across-the-board cuts. See the interactive impact

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President Obama has repeatedly called this a make-or-break moment for the middle class. That’s why we worked with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to reach an agreement that keeps income taxes low for the middle class and helps to grow the economy. And as the President promised, millionaires and billionaires will also begin doing more

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THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. For the past couple of months, I’ve been working with leaders of both parties to try and forge an agreement that would grow our economy and shrink the deficit — a balanced plan that would cut spending in a responsible way but also ask the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more, and, above all, protect our middle class and everybody who is striving to get into the middle class.

I still want to get this done. It’s the right thing to do for our families, for our businesses, and for our entire economy. But the hour for immediate action is here.  It is now.

Read the full remarks, click here.

Dumbfounded, unbelievable, appalled – All descriptions of the absolutely incredible suggestion from Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell that the Newtown school massacre might have stopped the carnage if she was armed. McDonnell made the comments on WTOP radio’s Ask the Governor program December 18th. What’s your take on this, take our Facebook poll, click here.  Congressman Gerry Connolly

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The Sandy Hook tragedy, jobs and middle class tax cuts, right-to-work-for-less, and Hanukah, click here (from Frank Leone, VA DNC member - DemRulz.org).

Following the announcement by DPVA Chairman Brian Moran that he will be stepping down in December effective at the next meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee meeting on December 8th in Williamsburg, Delegate Charniele Herring (D-46th, www.CharnieleHerring.com) announced her candidacy for the office. Here is her announcement to run for Chair, read more.