Posted on 02 July 2012. Tags: Asphalt, Beverages, Bottle Opener, Canned Veggies, Car Engines, Cardboard, Dog Food, Doors, Foreclosures, Fridge, Grocery Store, Mini Cart, Multiple Times, Neighbor, Neighbors, Patio Table, Paved Driveway, Political Activists, Porch, Sam Adams, Samantha, Screen Tv, Sized Refrigerator, Swiss Army Knife, Weeken
I ran into a former neighbor over the weekend at the grocery store. He and his wife and their two kids moved out of the rental home a few doors down from me and made a really good decision to buy a home. I had been meaning to stop by and see their new house, [...]
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Posted on 16 February 2010. Tags: Asphalt, Budget Gap, Center Operators, Chunks, Commuters, Customer Response, Dear Mr, Dirt Road, District Administrator, Eastbound, Exit Ramp, Field Managers, Gap, Hawthorne District, Hazardous Road, High Priority, Hot Mix, Interchange, Magnitude, Mix Materials, Pavement, Pot Hole, Pot Holes, Pothole Repairs, Priority Attention, Repair Request, Richmond, Richmond Area, Richmond Dist, Richmond District, Street Exit, Sure Things, Traffic Report, Vdot, Virginia State, Ways To Save Money, Westbound Lanes
Since the last major snow in the Richmond area on Wednesday, February 10th, the road at the interchange between I-64 West and I-95 South, also known as the 5th Street exit, has disintegrated into a dirt road. The pavement is gone, and large chunks of asphalt are all that remain.
So, what is so special about this particular damage? There are millions of pot holes all across the state, right?
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Posted on 24 January 2010. Tags: Asphalt, Bob McDonnell, Common Threads, Conservatives, Construction Company, Election Cycle, Family Bonds, Great American Melting Pot, Hannity And Colmes, How To Build Bridges, Latino Community, Margin Of Victory, No Doubt, Power Couple, Republican Coalition, Rich History, Strong Family, Tito, True Monument, Wife Deborah
I was invited to a meeting of the Latino National Republican Coalition of Virginia that took place yesterday in Reston, Va. During the 2009 election cycle I was fortunate enough to become friends with Tito “The Builder” Munoz and his wife Deborah. If you don’t remember Tito, I have included a video of him appearing on Hannity and Colmes on the FoxNews Network at the end of this post. This interview is an all time classic. This couple worked tirelessly for the McDonnell campaign with an eye on reaching out to the Latino community. But they reached far more than the Latino community. While it is impossible to say exactly how many people were influenced by this “power couple” in 2009, I have no doubt that Bob McDonnell’s historic margin of victory included a large number of votes from the Latino community who trusted the judgment of Tito and Deborah enough to bring victory to Bob McDonnell and many other races on which they worked.
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