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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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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Richmond (December 13, 2010) – Federal District Court Judge Henry Hudson ruled at noon today in Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal health care act that the health care mandate is unconstitutional.  Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will hold a news conference at his office at 2pm EST, after he has had a
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Tired of seeing Virginia as the punch line on some late night comedy show?   We are.  Under the leadership of Democratic Governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, Virginia was recognized as the Best State for Business, Best Managed State and the Best State to Raise a Child. But ever since Bob McDonnell and Ken
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Yesterday in Washington, our President signed historic health care reform that will make health coverage accessible and affordable for 1.2 million uninsured Virginians. But here in Virginia, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has decided to wage a fruitless war against health care reform — by filing a frivolous lawsuit against the federal government. Today, Virginians are
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In economic times like this, how can the extremist Attorney General of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, justify spending tax dollars in a lawsuit against Health Care Reform? Cuccinelli to file suit ‘as soon as the ink is dry’ on health-care signature: A spokesman for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Sunday evening that he has already prepared his
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cross-posted from NotLarrySabato.com http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2010/03/cooch-gone-wild.html Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been in the news a lot recently for his lawsuit against the EPA, his letter to colleges telling them to change their non-discrimination policies and his efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.  But he’s not done making news yet! In this recording, Ken is caught talking about
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VAYD (Virginia Young Democrats) President Sean Holihan’s call to action: Attorney General Ken Cucinnelli has gone after rules at our Universities protecting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender employees. In spite of people from both sides of the aisle condemning Cucinelli’s persecution of gays in state employment, Governor McDonnell and elected Republicans have backed Cuccinelli’s decision. Enough
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Awareness and Action You knew in the 2009 General Election that very conservative Bob McDonnell had a plan, a plan that he wrote about in his thesis (see August 2009 posting). Well, the devastation continues … In the wake of an ex-Vice President of the United States publicly stating that torture is ok and admits
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