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First he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he’s got the rainbow halo. What more could a president ask for?
Thank you, Newsweek. You have done more for the Romney campaign than all the Evangelical preachers and conservative bloggers could have done.
Now that he’s been canonized by the adoring left, is there anything else to say about the mainstream media’s hero worship?
Posted in Campaigns & elections, Ideas
By Jim Gannon
After hearing many citizens protest the prospect of an 8.6% hike in the property tax rate, the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors cut in half the $559,894 increase in county funding sought by the county School Board for the coming year.
The county schools wound up with half a loaf: an increase in county funding of $280,000, or 3.3%, rather than the 6.6% increase proposed in the School Board’s budget for the 2012-2013 school year. By a unanimous vote of 5-0, the supervisors approved county funding of $8,789,098, nearly $280,000 short of what the School Board wanted.
The action will require the School Board to reopen their budget to find savings of that amount. What cuts will be made are up to the School Board. A proposed 3% pay increase for all school employees could be pared back, or savings could be found in other areas such as dropping plans to lease-purchase four new buses, scaling back some academic programs, or not filling all jobs that are coming open due to retirements and resignations.
At the monthly Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisors Ron Frazier of Jackson District and Chris Parrish of Stonewall-Hawthorne District made the key moves that led to the compromise on the school budget increase. Continue reading
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Tagged Board of Supervisors, Rappahannock County, school spending, taxes
By Senator Mark Obenshain
An ongoing Virginia State Police investigation has resulted in charges against thirty-eight people for voter fraud, to which opponents of modest voter identification requirements-opponents who repeatedly insisted that voter fraud does not exist-responded, essentially, “Oh, that voter fraud.” And then changed the subject.
In the face of this latest news of voter fraud, the Richmond Times-Dispatch-which editorialized against voter ID laws like Senate Bill 1, calling them unnecessary-issued a mea culpa. No such turnabout would seem to be forthcoming from the bill’s Democratic foes, however, who are clamoring for the veto of legislation that does one thing, and one thing only: makes it harder to vote fraudulently.
I’m sure you’ve heard the arguments of those who disparage any form of voter identification requirement as “voter suppression.” Senator John Edwards (D-Roanoke) slammed Virginia’s Voter ID bill as “undercounting the ballots” of “the young, the poor, the disabled, and minorities.” Senator Mamie Locke (D-Hampton) charges that the bill would “make it more difficult for older folks to vote, for lower-income Virginians to vote, for those with disabilities, and for African-Americans to vote.”
These are serious charges – but those making them never even try to back them up. Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns & elections, Politics, State government
Tagged Sen. Mark Obenshain, voter fraud, voter ID
Former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen met and mingled with the Friends of Liberty on April 4, telling the audience of about 50 persons that “this is a pivotal year in the course of American history.”
Allen, who is seeking to regain the U.S. Senate seat that he lost to Democrat James Webb in 2006, that he will emphasize the issues of jobs, econonomic growth, American energy development and lower taxes in his campaign. “I learned a lot from losing” that election to Webb, he said. “It is a humbling experience.” Webb has decided not to seek re-election after one term, throwing the Virginia Senate seat up for grabs in November.
Part of the audience at Gray Ghost winery listening to Allen.
Allen is the favorite to win the Republican nomination for the Senate in the primary scheduled for June 12, but he is expected to face three other candidates seeking the GOP nomination: former Tea Party leader Jamie Radtke, Del. Robert Marshall, and Bishop E.W. Jackson. In November, the GOP nominee will face former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who is running unopposed for the Democrat nomination.
Allen spoke to the Friends of Liberty reception on a warm spring night at Gray Ghost Vineyards in Amissville. He spent nearly two hours mingling with the group, speaking and answering questions. The bulk of his remarks focused on economic issues. He spoke of his campaign “Blueprint for a comeback of America,” including a focus on developing domestic energy resources. Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Campaigns & elections, Politics
Virginia will be the focus of one of the nation’s most tightly-contested U.S. Senate races in November’s election, as former governor and U.S. Senator George Allen tries to recapture the Senate seat that he lost in 2006 to Democrat James Webb.
Webb’s decision to not seek re-election has thrown the seat up for grabs, with most political analysts expecting a close race likely to pit two former Virginia governors—Republican Allen and Democrat Tim Kaine—against each other on November 6.
Allen will bring his campaign to Rappahannock County next Wednesday (April 4) to a reception sponsored by the Friends of Liberty, a local conservative group. Allen will meet and greet Rappahannock citizens and speak and take questions at Gray Ghost Vineyards in Amissville, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
Most national political pundits expect Allen to be the GOP nominee, though he is expected to face opposition in the scheduled June 12 Republican primary for the U.S. Senate nomination. Jamie Radtke, a conservative activist and former leader of the Richmond Tea Party and the Virginia Tea Party Federation is challenging Allen for the nomination and has turned in more than 21,000 signatures to put her on the ballot, more than twice the required 10,000. One or more other Republicans, including Robert Marshall, Virginia House of Delegates member from Prince William County, may also qualify for the primary ballot. Continue reading
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Tagged George Allen, Gray Ghost Winery, Jamie Radtke, Tim Kaine, U.S. Senate
Friends of Liberty will host Jamie Radtke, a Virginia tea party leader who is competing for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate this year, at its monthly meeting on Thursday, March 15, at 7 p.m. at the Rappahannock County Library.
Radtke announced this week that her campaign had collected 21,000 signatures, far more than needed to qualify, on petitions to place her name on the June 12 primary ballot for those contending to be the party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated this year by the retiring Democrat, James Webb.
Her main competition for the GOP nomination is former Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen, who lost the Virginia seat to Webb in the election of 2006. Allen is making a bid to recapture the seat in November.
George Allen also has accepted an invitation to come to Rappahannock County to speak to a Friends of Liberty gathering on Wednesday, April 4. That event will be held at the Gray Ghost Winery in Amissville from 6-8 p.m. and is open to the public.
Radtke is the former head of the Richmond Tea Party and leader of the Virginia Federation of Tea Party Patriots. She is a strong conservative who emphasizes limited government, lower taxes and adherence to the U.S. Constitution.
Posted in Activities, Campaigns & elections, Events, Politics
Tagged Friends of Liberty, George Allen, Jamie Radtke, Rappahannock County
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