CoalitionForWomensHealth.org On September 15th the Virginia Board of Health, under pressure from the Attorney General’s office, voted to approve new regulations on Virginia’s women’s health clinics – the most onerous regulations on women’s health centers in the country severely limit a Virginia woman’s ability to make her own decisions about her health care. These new
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New DPVA Web Video – A jobs Governor? DPVA released a new web video urging Governor McDonnell to get results to match his rhetoric on jobs. In August Virginia’s unemployment rate increased for the second straight month while the national rate declined, and the percentage of Virginia’s population that had a job was lower than
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Not a surprise. Just last week the Republican Congress threatened to shut down the Federal Government, and now Virginia’s Republican Governor Bob McDonnell wants it all for Virginia (for Republicans) with the same kind of political game of chicken. Bob ‘just say no’ McDonnell sent a letter to General Assembly members explaining that the House
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Looks like the Governor’s office has been reading Terry’s Business Plan. Check out the article below. IT’S BACK: BIG TIME DEBT GETS A SECOND LOOK IN VIRGINIA Christina Nuckols The Virginian-Pilot I’m having T-Mac flashbacks. Twenty months after Terry McAuliffe lost his bid for the Democratic nomination to run for governor, his ebullient spirit lives
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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. George Allen is running for the Senate Former Senator George Allen formally announced yesterday that he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat he lost
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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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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 embarks on ‘massive’ spending spree   Bob McDonnell promised last week to continue spending more money than the Commonwealth is collecting to finance his priorities. While no one
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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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Share your thoughts with Delegate Scott Surovell and Senator Toddy Puller at their town hall meeting Monday, September 27th 7-8:30 pm at the Mount Vernon Governmental Center (2511 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, VA 22306; map, click here).

See more about the failed ‘plan’ by Bob McDonnell, click here.

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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