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.
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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…
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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…
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Mark Warner repeatedly told voters he’d never vote for a bill that would prevent Virginians from keeping their existing health plans. He did just the opposite of what he told voters, and now 250,000 Virginians are about to lose their health coverage as a result.…
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The fundamentals, and the candidates, suggest that this Senate campaign is about to get close, and that Ed Gillespie is going to rapidly turn this race into a turnout contest.[read_more] For months we’ve been reading about polls showing Mark Warner with more than a 20…
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The Top of Virginia Chamber of Commerce held their annual Hob Nob in the Valley last night in Middletown, in the Shenandoah Valley. Four hundred people attended to enjoy an evening of barbecue and politics. [read_more]All three Virginia Senate candidates were in attendance, Republican Ed…