Tag: Governor

See below for graphics (source: VPAP) on gubernatorial fundraising in this election cycle, and in previous election cycles going back to 2001 (when Mark...

I normally am not a big fan of Roanoke Times editorials, but I thought that yesterday's - Editorial: 7 questions for the 2021 governor's...

See below for video of an event yesterday, in which Virginia Democratic women activists - led by former Democratic Lt. Governor candidate Susan Platt...

Far-right Sen. Amanda Chase, after ranting about "the liberal socialistic agenda," "illegals," "criminals," a "nanny state," etc., announced her candidacy for governor of Virginia...

Our old pal, Sen. Amanda Chase (R-SD11), seems to be at it again. Here's the Chesterfield Observer with a scoop. Also, h/t to the...

How much correlation - let alone causation - is there between a party's performance at the top of the ticket (governor) and the rest...

See below for the video and some thoughts from Tom Perriello regarding why he's running for Governor of Virginia in 2017; also see here...

Yep, this is the Republican 2017 Virginia gubernatorial field (not including Rob Wittman, who wasn't at this Chamber of Commerce, and also had nothing...

I was excited when I first decided to take an extended vacation the two weeks leading up to Labor Day. Time to get out of the swampy Mid-Atlantic summer heat of August and flee to cooler climates.

Then I realized that the weeks coincided with the run-up for the September 1st deadline the court had set for Congressional redistricting. Perhaps the General Assembly would be working on an 11th hour compromise?

Nope. Early in the special session my fears were put to rest as the Republicans tried to jam everything and forced Democrats to adjourn. Redistricting would occur in September after I was back from vacation.

Then Mark Herring announces that he will be running for reelection as the Commonwealth's Attorney General! It's a good thing I kept my phone on so I could get the texts from friends back in the Commonwealth while on vacation!

A few thoughts.

1. Announcing before this fall's elections ensures that the narrative will not be one of Herring being pushed out by concerned moderates and negative nay-sayers. Despite the all-out effort by the Democrats to win back the State Senate, they are on hostile terrain and could still fall short. Should this happen, the political talking heads could point to the election as a sign that Virginia is still a tough, purple state, and that the VMI graduate and more moderate Ralph Northam would be a better candidate for Democrats going into 2017. The pressure would be on to unite the party and avoid a primary fight.

Though the clinic in Wise is Virginia's anchor, it is only one of four this year; even more in the future if Dr. Vicky Weiss has her way. This weekend's iteration drew attention for a drone demonstration but the primary purpose remained providing care to persons with limited access to health care.

The need is underlined by the flood of participants at every event. Here you see the very last open space in the parking area of the Wise County Fair Grounds being filled just as the gates opened yesterday for this weekend's clinic. The first arrival had been at around 2pm Wednesday, two days before. By 9pm Thursday there were some 800 staged with tickets in hand; at 4:30am Friday over 1,250. By noon the equivalent of about half the population of Wise had passed through the gates for care.

Remote Area Medical (RAM) was initiated by its founder, Stan Brock, to provide service to the world's inaccessible areas. Upon the realization that barriers to access are not just geographical, he began delivery of care to rural and underserved populations in the United States; eventually into urban centers. Now more than 90% of RAM operations are within the United States.

RAM of Virginia was launched in April 2014 on the steps of the state's Capitol Building to alleviate the growing need of affordable health care for thousands of underserved Virginians. Headed by Dr. Victoria Molnar Weiss, the affiliate hopes to expand its operations to host many mobile clinics throughout the state yearly.