by Doug Thompson | Sep 17, 2014 | Musings, Politics
Looks like the current governor of Virginia, just like the one he followed, is for sale to the highest bidder. While former governor Bob McDonald waits to see how long he and his estranged wife will serve in prison for getting big bucks from former Star Scientific...
by Doug Thompson | Jun 17, 2014 | Musings
The newly-enacted state budget, put into place after the surprise resignation of a Southwestern Virginia state senator turned control of the Senate over to Republicans, arrived at the governor’s office Monday, starting the seven-day clock for the Terry...
by Doug Thompson | Jun 9, 2014 | Musings, News, Politics
Ask a Virginia Democrat for a public comment about Governor Terry McAuliffe and you get the standard political rhetoric about what “a great job he is doing,” Talk to them privately and a different picture emerges. The celebration over McAuliffe’s...
by Doug Thompson | May 2, 2014 | Musings, News, Politics
Looks like Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is looking for ways to tell the Republican-controlled General Assembly to go screw itself while bypassing the legislature to implement his controversial Medicaid expansion plan that has brought state government to a...
by Doug Thompson | Mar 4, 2014 | Musings
In a case where reverse discrimination rules, some Democrats in Virginia oppose Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s choice to head the Old Dominion’s Democratic Party because that pick hasn’t come out publicly in favor of gay marriage. For Richmond Mayor Dwight...
