Tag: Democratic Party of Virginia

By Josh Stanfield of Activate Virginia Last December, there was a special election in House of Delegates District 24 to replace Ben Cline, incoming congressman...

By Josh Stanfield of Activate Virginia Last week, I ran across an obscure story out of South Dakota that piqued my curiosity. I’d never really...

By Josh Stanfield of Activate Virginia Delegate Debra Rodman, of Henrico’s 73rd House District, announced today that she will seek the Democratic nomination for State...

From attorney @marceelias - "BREAKING: GOP Congressman Taylor's staff/operatives collected forged signatures to help an independent candidate who is under federal indictment get on the ballot...

The Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA02) petition signature forgery scandal just keeps getting worse and worse. Check out the following statement from the Democratic Party...

I just got high-quality video (see below) of Sen. Tim Kaine's superb speech at Saturday night's Blue Commonwealth Dinner. Here are a few highlights...

By Josh Stanfield, Campaign Manager, Jennifer Lewis for Congress Last weekend Virginia's Sixth District Republicans chose their congressional nominee, Delegate Ben Cline, at their convention....

The near-silence of Donald Trump supporter Rep. Dave Brat (VA-7) on this week's fiascos in the GOP is telling.  Brat is famous for having...

The official Twitter feed of the Democratic Party of Virginia has just accused the Republican Party of Virginia of bribing a Democratic State Senator in order to block Medicaid expansion.  These are very strong words: bribery is a crime.  In fact, bribery is two crimes--when a bribe is offered or paid both the person offering the bribe and the person accepting the bribe are potentially guilty of bribery.

The principals in this case are State Delegate Terry Kilgore (R) and State Senator Phil Puckett (D).  News reports are alleging that Kilgore arranged a cushy, highly-compensated job for Puckett at Virginia's Tobacco Commission in exchange for Puckett's agreeing to resign and tip control of Virginia's state senate to the Republican Party of Virginia's control.  You can read more at these links:

(Note: The information below is simply a rumor I have heard. It hasn't been verified, but it's interesting, nonetheless.)

Many of us have been wondering just what the DPVA will look like and how it will be functioning as we approach the November 2014 elections for the House of Representatives and the re-election of Sen. Mark Warner, given the resignations of the Executive Director, the Political Director, and the Chair. As you know, Charniele Herring is resigning to run for the 8th District seat being vacated by Jim Moran. That leaves a vacancy that needs to be filled as soon as possible, so that the DPVA can hire staff, especially a new Executive Director.

I have heard that Del. Herring will continue to see that the Chair's duties are fulfilled, pending the election of a new Chair at the March Central Committee meeting. I also have heard that the selection of a new ED will be done by the incoming Chair with Steering Committee approval, which makes much more sense than Del. Herring selecting the ED.

Perhaps the best news I have gotten, if it is accurate, is that the election of the Chair is open at present, not a "done deal" as has been the practice so often in the past. So, if that is true, who would you like to see as the next Chair of the DPVA? One name occurred to me - Aneesh Chopra. Any other ideas?