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Lunchtime Links

By | 07.19.10 | 12:00 pm

Sarah Palin expands the English language.

The FEC hits Joe Biden with a $219,000 fine for accepting illegal campaign donations.

The acting director of national intelligence responds to The Washington Post’s allegations about the intelligence community’s lack of coordination.

Alvin Greene gives More…

Rep. Tom Perriello Focuses on Job Creation in His First TV Spot

By | 06.30.10 | 2:56 pm

Rep. Tom Perriello, a freshman Democrat from Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, is facing a tough re-election campaign. Not only does he hail from a conservative district — McCain won with 51 percent of the vote in 2008, and Bush won in 2004 and 2000 with healthy margins — but More…

FBI Investigates Perriello Threats

By | 03.24.10 | 1:24 pm

The FBI is investigating threats to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), an “aye” vote on health care. The threats go all the way up to a severed gas line at the house of Perriello’s brother. Nigel Coleman of the Danville, Va. Tea Party reacts:

I obviously condemn these actions. I

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A Tea Party Debate, a Lot of Promises to the Far Right

By | 03.01.10 | 4:53 pm

The Daily Progress’s writeup of a Tea Party-sponsored Republican candidate forum in Virginia’s 5th district — seen as one of the best opportunities for the GOP to take back a seat lost in 2008 — is being mined for quotes by liberal bloggers, and I see why. Second-tier More…

Bonner Says They Only Authored 13 Fake Letters to Congress

By | 09.11.09 | 2:44 pm

Bonner & Associates says that while they may be responsible for the 13 other forged letters to Congress, they’re not to blame for fake letter No. 14 that was revealed yesterday. The letter claims to be from a Virginia American Legion post, to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), but was More…

House Finds 14th Forged Letter on Climate Bill

By | 09.10.09 | 4:34 pm

Yet another letter to Congress opposing the Waxman-Markey climate bill has been revealed to be a fake. The letter, the 14th confirmed forgery, claims to be from an American Legion post in Rocky Mount, Va.

The letter was sent to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), who has thus far confirmed More…

GOP Sees Opportunity With White Voters After Gates Saga

By | 08.07.09 | 6:00 am

Two weeks after President Obama said that Cambridge, Mass., police had “acted stupidly” by arresting Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates for arguing with them inside his home, Republicans are still taking stock of their unexpected political gift.

A Pew Research poll released on July More…

Goode to Go

By | 03.13.09 | 11:30 am

Former Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) is jumping into the race for his old House seat, a mostly rural chunk of central Virginia anchored around Charlottesville.

Once a candidate receives $5,000, he or she must file a statement of candidacy with the FEC.

“I’m filing that because a few people

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NRCC Bashes Democrat for Stuff That Doesn’t Exist

By | 02.18.09 | 6:06 pm

The National Republican Congressional Committee is up with a new ad against Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), who won one of the closest races in the country last year. It knocks him for his “yes” vote on the stimulus package:

Pelosi’s plan wastes hundreds of millions on programs that won’t

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