CHARLESTON, S.C. — Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell endorsed Mitt Romney’s campaign for president on Friday and told a rally of supporters that both character and values matter when selecting a nominee to run against President Obama. (more)
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell endorsed Mitt Romney on Thursday and will be campaigning with the GOP presidential candidate in South Carolina just a day before the state’s primary. (more)
Virginia Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will reportedly announce his candidacy for governor of Virginia next week. (more)
Seven-term Virginia State Senator Edd Houck conceded defeat Thursday night, handing over complete control of the government in Richmond to the Republican Party. (more)
FAIRFAX, Va. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stood on a stage here and praised Bob McDonnell, Virginia’s governor and a much-discussed potential running mate for any 2012 Republican nominee. (more)
In a Monday interview with WJHL-TV in Bristol, Va., Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell demurred on endorsing either Texas Governor Rick Perry or Mitt Romney for president. McDonnell, who has himself been floated as a potential vice presidential nominee, did not rule out the possibility but denied actively seeking it. (more)
Tuesday, April 12 marks the 150th anniversary of the bombardment of Fort Sumter and the start of the U.S. Civil War. Over the next four years, the nation will be commemorating the bloody events of a century and a half ago, pondering their meaning and their place in history. Media outlets will produce features on the valor and the squalor, the heroes, martyrs and villains, and what they mean to today’s Americans. (more)
“Is there a proven method to online fundraising?” I can’t tell you how often I get that question. Having worked on dozens of campaigns over the years, I feel confident that the answer is yes. (more)
RICHMOND, Va — Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday Virginia state employees will not get a pay raise any time soon but on Wednesday, more than 117,000 eligible state government workers will get a one-time bonus. (more)
The 2012 presidential campaign began immediately after the midterms ended. (more)
Conservatives are planning to propose an amendment to the Constitution at some time in the next few weeks aimed at allowing states to repeal legislation without the approval of Washington. (more)
Bob McDonnell, the Republican governor of Virginia, predicted that during redistricting next year, politicians will take a hard look at the Tenth Amendment and perhaps reevaluate the balance of power between state and federal governments. (more)
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour will headline a national campaign tour next week with four other nationally known Republican governors, hitting 15 cities in five days to drive voter turnout and media coverage in favor of the GOP. (more)
Even in the landslide of 2009, when Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli crushed their opponents statewide by almost 20 points, Northern Virginia went Democratic. In years more favorable to Democrats, “NOVA,” as it is often nicknamed, has singlehandedly reversed the results achieved across the rest of the state. (more)
1.) Joe Miller’s private security guards take ‘libruhl’ media antipathy too far — The bearded David to Sen. Murkowski’s pinch-faced Goliath may have just provided a boon to everyone else running for Alaska’s Senate seat. On Sunday, Miller’s private security team put an Alaskan journalist in an arm-bar and then handcuffs during an event at a public middle school because the reporter, Tony Hopfinger of Alaska Dispatch, would not stop asking inconvenient questions about Miller’s past. According to Hopfinger’s own account and photographs, Miller’s team restrained the camera-wielding journalist, then told him he was under arrest and made him sit handcuffed in a corner for 30 mins until the police arrived, at which time it was revealed that Miller is not Wyatt Earp and Alaska circa 2010 is not a Cormac McCarthy novel, where might makes right, etc., etc. Miller, a decorated military veteran and Harvard Law graduate, made light of such violence during his speech when he said of securing America’s southern border, “If the East Germans could do it, we can do it.” (more)
The South of the future is a liberal bastion, according to speakers at a National Archives symposium Tuesday evening. (more)
Gov. Bob McDonnell has dropped two proposed taxes on liquor sales from his plan for getting Virginia out of the distilled spirits business, opening a $47 million-a-year hole in the state budget. (more)
RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell said Friday evening that he will not spare the life of a 41-year-old woman who is set to become the first woman executed in the state in nearly a century. (more)
RICHMOND, VA. (AP) Gov. Bob McDonnell wants nearly $500 million from selling Virginia’s state-owned liquor stores to provide loans and grants for local highway congestion relief projects. (more)
I wonder if President Obama read what so many others did last month in The Washington Post: that Virginia will enjoy a $220 million budget surplus despite the struggling economy. If not the Post, then surely the President glanced over a recent issue of The Economist in which Governor Chris Christie is congratulated for closing “an unprecedented $11 billion budget gap…without increasing taxes.” (more)
