Category: Politics
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More Eye-Popping Late Donations from Dominion, Clean Virginia
By Steve Haner Dominion Energy Virginia has contributed another $1 million plus to Virginia state-level politicians in large, late pre-primary donations, with the largest amounts given to Shannon Taylor’s run for Attorney General and Levar Stoney’s campaign for lieutenant governor. This close to the vote, state law requires rapid reporting on late large checks. According…
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Are Virginia’s Historic Landscapes the Next Frontier for Big Tech?
Data centers continue to bolster communities in Virginia, but without proper regulation, Virginians on the ground will be the biggest losers. by Bronson Winslow Data centers, driven by Big Tech’s eastward expansion, have popped up like 7-Elevens across Virgini a— reshaping rolling hills and historic communities in the name of progress. The aggressive transformation, primarily…
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The Case of the Disappearing VPAP Data
By Steve Haner Revised June 5 The pro-green energy activist group Clean Virginia has announced a live television attack advertisement in opposition to Shannon Taylor, one of two Democratic candidates seeking the nomination for Attorney General. The ad (see it here) was authorized by the other candidate, Jay Jones. Taylor, currently Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney, accepted…
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A Champion of the People… or the Elites?
by Jacob Grandstaff Democrat AG candidate Jay Jones pretends to support social justice while cozying up to fat-cat elitists who exploit the poor. In the race for Virginia’s Attorney General, Democrat candidate Jay Jones pitches himself as a defender of justice, but his record paints a different picture — one of a politician rolling out…
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How Youngkin Can Help the GOP Win This Fall
by Paul Goldman Governor Glenn Youngkin says he’s a team player. He desperately wants the Virginia GOP ticket to win this fall. That’s why his backers say he pointed out the risks of nominating John Reid for lieutenant governor. Without a lie detector test or some magical discovery, there’s no way to know whether this…
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How John Reid Was Played
by Paul Goldman The latest poll predicting a Democratic ticket sweep this fall doesn’t come as a surprise to anybody who has read my columns here. When Donald Trump was in the White House the last time, the Dem nominee for Virginia governor won by the party’s biggest percentage in 32 years. Ralph Northam also…
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Not About Aaron Rouse
The growing habit of being great to be here. by Gordon C. Morse Steve Martin, meet Aaron Rouse. Early in his career, Martin would walk out onto the stage and say, “It’s great to be here.” Then he’d move a few feet away and say, “It’s great to be here, too.” He would keep shifting…
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Youngkin Has the Better Message
Dems think they have a winning issue in decrying layoffs of federal workers. Don’t count on it. by James A. Bacon Governor Glenn Youngkin is looking like a pretty darn good steward of the public fisc these days. Bucking a slowdown in the national economy, Virginia’s General Fund revenues increased 8.8% in April, tracking $220…
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Was John Reid Framed?
by James A. Bacon An in-depth analysis of the Tumblr account where lieutenant-governor candidate John Reid allegedly posted explicit photos of nude male models shows that the account was dormant for several years before someone reactivated it and planted the incriminating photos. So concludes the author of an X account identifying himself as @VaChangeAgent. “Bottom…
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The Clean Virginia Pecksniffs (Look It Up) are Back
by Steve Haner The following popped up in my inbox about two weeks ago when I was badly distracted by the canals and stroopwafels and bicycle frenzy of Amsterdam. But it would be wrong to just delete it without having a bit of fun. The italicized text below is from our friends at Clean Virginia.…
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Time for Sears-Reid-Miyares to Sing Kumbaya
by Kerry Dougherty It was nice while it lasted, Virginia. Our three-year respite from the radical tyranny of Democrat party rule could soon be over. There was a chance we could keep freedom alive in the upcoming statewide elections. All the party and its candidates had to do was join together to deliver a coherent…
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Choosing Between Reid and Youngkin, I Choose Youngkin
By Steve Haner The only thing wrong with the interaction between John Reid and Governor Glenn Youngkin, addressing valid questions about his viability as a candidate for lieutenant governor, is when it happened. It should have happened last year, while Reid was just a potential candidate, before he had quit his day job to run, and…
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Why Does Youngkin Attack His Friends, Not His Foes?
by James A. Bacon This is a hard post to write because I think Governor Glenn Youngkin has been a pretty good governor overall. I like his rhetorical tone, and I can’t think of a single important policy stance he’s taken that I disagree with. While he has not accomplished as much as I would…
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Virginia’s GOP Better Get a Reid on the Situation
by Kerry Dougherty Here’s some free advice for Virginia’s Republican Party: Get your act together before the Democrats sweep the November elections and Old Dominion turns into California East. Intra-party squabbling and charges of extortion are not a winning message. Cut it out. Four years after stunning the nation by taking the commonwealth’s top three…
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Resolute Mr. Reid
Out, proud, and in the fight. by Gordon C. Morse “Virginia’s embattled Republican nominee for lieutenant governor,” The Washington Post now calls John Reid. The paper might have called him “bewitched, bothered and bewildered.” That would have been more fun, but “embattled” will probably do. There are photos. Re-posted on-line and by Reid, so claimed.…