Phil Puckett

Despite the cloud of corruption hanging over the nomination of Martha Puckett Ketron to the Virginia bench, 39 Senators and 65 Delegates voted today to elect her to a six-year term as a juvenile and domestic relations court judge in the 29th Judicial District.[read_more] The…

RPV Chairman Pat Mullins today issued a sharply worded letter to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics pointing out the apparent violation arising from Sen. Warner’s attempt to persuade Phil Puckett to stay in the Virginia Senate last June to avoid ceding a controlling majority…

While the fireworks in last night’s debate were all about Mark Warner’s apparently being stranded in some sort of weird time warp (acting like he’s running against George W. Bush, and pretending like the last six years never happened), the real story is that he can’t explain away his bribe to get Phil Puckett to keep the Virginia Senate in Democratic hands.

Combat. Plain and simple, Ed Gillespie has to be willing to take on Mark Warner aggressively. Revelations that Mark Warner offered a federal judgeship to Phil Puckett’s daughter in exchange for Puckett keeping the Virginia Senate in Democrat hands provides just the opening Gillespie needs…

According to this article in the Washington Post, Senator Mark Warner discussed with Senator Puckett possible job offers for his daughter in an effort to dissuade Puckett from resigning from the state Senate and throwing the Senate balance to Republican control.[read_more] On June 6, three…

That’s the question ultimately begged by revelations of his chief of staff’s bribery of former Virginia Democratic State Senator Phil Puckett. And make no mistake: it WAS bribery.[read_more] Laura Vozzella at the Washington Post broke the story last night that McAuliffe Chief of Staff Paul…

Clifton Cauthorne, a Republican council member in Pound VA, has filed for the Republican nomination to fill the 4th district House of Delegates seat that was recently vacated when Ben Chafin was elected to fill Virginia’s 38th Senate seat vacated by Phil Puckett’s resignation on June 9th. The…