Tim Kaine

The Washington Post has made their predictions for Hillary’s Vice President.  Julian Castro is number one, followed by Senator Sherrod Brown and in third place Virginian’s own Tim Kaine. The online money is on Time Kaine. View more of Chris Cizzilla’s predictions at the bottom…

Is Congresswoman Barbara Comstock representing us in Congress?

Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, has issued a statement strongly endorsing Susan Stimpson for the 28th district in the House of Delegates.[read_more] In his endorsement he said, “In signing the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, Susan Stimpson has demonstrated that she understands the problems of…

As reported here and elsewhere, numerous Virginia politicians, family friends, and community leaders wrote letters to the federal judge who was to decide Bob McDonnell’s sentence for his conviction on public corruption charges, all testifying to McDonnell’s character. Those letters have now been reprinted in…

The Republican party celebrated its 31st Advance earlier this month. (The party rightly calls it an Advance, because the old name was Retreat, which some would interpret as losing ground and hiding from the fight.) Many questions were asked about what happened in the 2014…

In yet another example of Mark Warner’s saying one thing and doing another, the supposedly budget-minded senior Senator from Virginia leaves other DC-area Senators in his contrails when it comes to taxpayer-funded transportation. One would think that Senators close to Washington would have lower travel…

Throughout the discussion of Medicaid expansion in Virginia, a particular theme keeps coming up: that the Governor may retain the ability to expand Medicaid coverage under Obamacare unilaterally, based on the executive branch’s existing authority to manage the state’s Medicaid plan, and leveraging language contained in the 2013 budget that set the stage for expansion via a special legislative commission (the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission, or MIRC).