Mark Warner

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…

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…

2014 has been a very productive time for us here at The Bull Elephant. This was just our first full year, after opening shop late in the 2013 campaign season, but what a remarkable year it has been! Slating. Cantor. Medicaid Expansion. The meteoric campaign…

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…

[UPDATE: Travis Fain at the Daily Press reports that a Hampton University spokesman has said the poll was not released because it showed the opposite of what we wrongly suspected.[read_more]  Instead of showing Gillespie gaining ground, it showed Warner up by double digits, apparently causing…

Virginia Beach Mayor Will Sessoms appears to have violated provisions of state law designed to keep public officials from taking official actions where they may have a financial conflict of interest. This revelation comes just weeks after this man, who poses as a Republican, extolled…

Sources indicate Ed Gillespie will concede the U.S. Senate race to Mark Warner this afternoon. Gillespie will praise the efforts of volunteers and staff that helped bring him within 1 percent of victory, in a race with over 2 million votes cast, while acknowledging that…