Tag: John Reid
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Justin Fairfax Never Had a Chance to Clear His Name
John Reid’s post from The Reid Revolution on X: Of course this headline is just horrible… and there’s no excusing murder and the devastation I’m sure these children will feel for the rest of their lives- but this blaring fleeting headline is NOT the whole story. When I heard about this crime and tragedy this…
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Sorting Out What’s Right
And what’s not. Not easy, but necessary. by Gordon C. Morse All the business about John Reid, the Republican candidate for Virginia lieutenant governor – who did what and why — has made for a strange week. There’s a sense (a little more than that, actually) that things said, asserted and claimed may suffer from…
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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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Reid Is on a Roll
by James A. Bacon Having Governor Glenn Youngkin tell him to drop out of the race for lieutenant governor might have been the best thing that happened to John Reid’s election campaign. The former Richmond talk-radio host is generating more headlines and bigger crowds than ever. People don’t normally get worked up over the race…
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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…