by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, October 5.
- Top Republican senator: there are 3 officials keeping US from “chaos” (“Not a single one is Trump.”)
- Blow: Blood Pact With the N.R.A.
- Some Republicans open to discussing Democrats’ proposal to ban device used in the Vegas attack
- Why the majority keeps losing on guns (“Our democracy has been perverted.”)
- Denying Report, Tillerson Reaffirms Support for Trump
- The GOP’s Best Tax Reform Idea Is Dead, and Its Next-Best Idea Is Dying
- Warning: Russia May Sow New Chaos in U.S. Elections
- This GOP tax proposal isn’t fair. Here’s what would be.
- What Was Behind Rex Tillerson’s Pro-Trump News Conference? (“On MSNBC, meanwhile, Stephanie Ruhle, one of the NBC News reporters responsible for the scoop, informed viewers, “My source didn’t just say that he called him a moron. He said an ‘effing moron.'”)
- ‘Death spiral’: Tillerson makes nice but may not last long with Trump
- The Things People Say Right Before They Leave the Trump Administration (“The secretary of state denied he was close to quitting, but did not explicitly reject a news report that said he called President Trump a ‘moron.'”)
- The Senate’s Russia probe is still far from over
- Interior secretary draws flak for mixing politics, official travel (“Ryan Zinke has met with big donors or political groups more than a half-dozen times while on department-paid trips, including a March visit to the U.S. Virgin Islands.”)
- Russia Appeared To Target Wisconsin’s Elections Body Via A Banner Or Popup Ad
- Republicans’ 20-week abortion ban is pure anti-woman propaganda (“The GOP’s new abortion law isn’t about ‘life.’ As Tim Murphy makes clear, it’s about male power over female bodies”
- Angry GOP donors close their wallets (“‘I’m sick and tired of nothing happening,’ one contributor says of the party’s legislative failures.”)
- The fringe conspiracy theories being spread about the Las Vegas massacre
- Atone? He’d better: Facebook is still the biggest source of right-wing fake news (“From Hillary rumors to the nonexistent Puerto Rico truckers’ strike, Facebook continues to spread total garbage”)
- Stephen Miller solidifies influence in White House (This guy is evil, so yeah, that’s disturbing.)
- Key senator wants to see social media companies make 3 changes to election ads (“He wants Americans seeing an ad to ‘know whether the source of that ad was generated by foreign entities.'”)
- Republicans trumpet Confederate statues, slam illegal immigration in new mailer attacking Northam (That’s “conservativism” these days? This party has completely lost its bearings.)
- Warner Cautions Russian ‘Active Measures’ May Impact Virginia Elections Next Month
- What Justice Kennedy’s Silence Means For The Future Of Gerrymandering
- 10 Virginia House races to watch as Democrats make their Nov. 7 push
- Libertarian candidate a longshot for Virginia governor – but he could alter the race
- Dems face close polls in must-win Virginia (Except for the new Washington Post poll, which shows Northam with a huge lead.)
- Democrat Northam leads Republican Gillespie in race for Virginia governor, new poll finds (“Northam leads Gillespie by 53 percent to 40 percent among likely voters, with 4 percent supporting Libertarian Cliff Hyra. The advantage is similar to a Post-Schar School poll this spring but larger than in other public polls of likely voters released over the past month, most of which found Northam up by single digits.”)
- 3 reasons the Virginia governor’s race has national relevance
- Virginia attorney general candidates release dueling ads (Adams is awful.)
- Does potential expansion of Atlantic Coast Pipeline to South Carolina change equation for Virginia? (Yes.)
- Editorial: Are Virginians really getting poorer? (“The reality is that economic growth almost everywhere ground to halt during the recession. When the economy started to grow again, Virginia’s two biggest metro areas — Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads — did not because both are heavily dependent on the federal government, and the federal spending cuts known as sequestration hit especially hard there.” Right, so #1, Bush/Cheney Great Recession; #2, GOP sequestration idiocy.)
- UPDATED: Charlottesville judge says law protecting war memorials applies to Lee statue, but more facts needed on monument’s origins
- Supporters of Confederate monuments get temporary legal win in Charlottesville (“A judge declined to throw out a lawsuit challenging the city’s decision to take down a hulking bronze Robert E. Lee statue that was a focal point of violent clashes in August.”)
- Facebook to build $1 billion data center in eastern Henrico County
- Editorial: Good news at last for region’s economy (“A new report on the region’s economy finally offers some hope that Hampton Roads is close to rebounding from the Great Recession.”
- Pendulum Politics in Northern Virginia (“House District 34 has swung to the left, the right and back again.”)
- McAuliffe speaks at Pride event in Richmond
- Parks employee found not guilty of murder in stabbing at wedding reception
- Warmth piles on with added humidity; rain chances return Sunday
