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Two of the folks from my childhood – in one day.
I’m feeling old.

I was just looking up some stuff over at The Virginia Public Access Project and was amazed at the wealth of information they have incorporated into the site. The one thing I found most interesting: party performance over the last few elections. Take a look at this short video.

vpap just gets better and better. We [...]

Brian Moran appeared on "Hardball" with Chris Matthews.

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Starting yesterday, June 15, small businesses may be eligible for interest-free loans. The new program was created under the economic recovery act. 2nd Congressional District Rep. Glenn Nye is the chairman of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology. His office announced the program in a press release yesterday.
The newly launched “America’s [...]

Brian has a new ad out.

In other news, PPP released a new poll (pdf) today:
With a week to go until the Democratic primary for Governor in Virginia the state of the race is as muddled as ever, with all three candidates within five points of each other. Creigh Deeds has a slight lead with 27%, [...]

First up – he who would be AG:

Then there’s the correction that beats all others.
A May 22 editorial on Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial primary incorrectly stated that Terry R. McAuliffe had described himself as a “huckster.” In his autobiography, Mr. McAuliffe described himself as a “hustler.”
Not funny: Don’t smile at the DMV. “The driver’s license photo, [...]

LG candidate Jody Wagner has started to run ads in Hampton Roads, Charlottesville and Richmond. Here is her first ad (HR/CV version).

Check out this ABNB ad featuring former Virginia Beach mayor Meyera Oberndorf

Liberty University has decided that Democratic Party platform is incompatible with the school’s moral principles. As the result, the College Democrats club has been decertified by the school, which was founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. In an email to the club president, the VP of Student Affairs basically says you can’t be a [...]

Lots of news coming out of the two Democratic campaigns for Lieutenant Governor over the last couple of days. First from the campaign of Jody Wagner.
Wednesday, Wagner received the endorsements of the Arlington Coalition of Police; the Arlington Professional Fire Fighters and Paramedics (IAFF Local 2880); and the Fairfax Coalition of Police. Here is [...]

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Jeff Shapiro discusses Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell

College students obviously have too much time on their hands

2nd Congressional District representative Glenn Nye was a co-sponsor on legislation passed by the House of Representatives today that would provide compensation to World War II merchant mariners. He spoke in favor of the legislation as shown in the following video.

According to a release from the Congressman’s office:
During the Second World War, approximately 250,000 Americans served in the Merchant Marine, the service which transported the goods and military materiel across the Atlantic and Pacific to support the war effort. Roughly 9,300 mariners were killed – 1 out of every 26 who served – and 12,000 were wounded. Over 1,500 Merchant Marine ships were sunk during the war, many of them by German U-Boats during the perilous crossing of the North Atlantic.
… The legislation will establish a fund, controlled by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, that will make monthly payments of $1,000 to all those who served in the United States Merchant Marine (including the Army Transport Service and the Naval Transport Service) between December 7, 1941 and December 31, 1946.
The bill (H.R. 23) passed the House on a voice vote and has been sent to the Senate.

I got the email late last night from the McAuliffe campaign which alerted me to the Washington Post article that appeared in today’s paper. The thing in the article that jumped out at me was this:
And at a candidates’ forum in December, in response to Moran’s claim to be the only candidate who had run a business and raised a family in Virginia, McAuliffe boasted of launching five businesses in Virginia.
It turned out that all five are investment partnerships, with no employees, registered to his home address in McLean.
At the Farm Team debate in Williamsburg, McAuliffe was asked by Brian Moran about three businesses (guess he didn’t know about the other two) that McAuliffe had registered to his home address. (Check the video in this post.) McAuliffe didn’t answer. I think we now know why. And while the memo from last night linked to a set of “facts” on the campaign website, even it does not address this issue.

Five businesses in Virgina. Zero jobs. And his platform is creating jobs? Heck, even I have created more jobs than Terry McAuliffe.

Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao hit Ricky “Hitman” Hatton with a left hook and took him out in the second round. Watch it while you can

Brian is on the radio in Hampton Roads. The ad celebrates the first 100 days of President Obama’s administration and features former Virginia Beach councilwoman Louisa Strayhorn. Listen to it below.