Dick Black

With Senator Dick Black (R-Loudoun) taking the lead, Virginia Republican legislators last night scored a great win in stopping the expansion of Medicaid. This was a win for grassroots conservatives across the state, who mobilized on Sen. Black’s call to take advantage of a new…

My fellow colleague here at The Bull Elephant, Steve Albertson, has written extensively on the Medicaid Expansion debate in Richmond. Democrats have held the budget hostage with their demands that Medicaid Expansion be included in the budget. Republicans have insisted the the debate and decision…

General Assembly members: if you oppose Medicaid expansion in Virginia, now is finally your chance to have a real impact. There has been a lot of ink spilled lately about whether Terry McAuliffe can expand Medicaid on his own if the Virginia General Assembly doesn’t…

There are politicians who actually believe in what their party stands for.  Honorable men like Dick Black, Dave LaRock, and John Whitbeck believe in Republican principles because they believe those principles, things like smaller  government, lower taxes, liberty and freedom, improve the lives of the…

This threatens to quickly become a very crowded race, with two candidates having publicly discussed the race within hours of Frank Wolf’s retirement announcement. Jim Riley at our mother-blog, Virginia Virtucon, broke the story that Sen. Dick Black is forming an exploratory committee. We’ve also…

On Wednesday Leesburg attorney Jennifer Wexton declared her candidacy for Mark Herring’s senate seat in district 33.  Herring has not vacated his senate seat because he has not been declared the winner of the race for Attorney General.  It’s unlikely that the recount in that race…