Virginia Right!

What a historic weekend! The Virginia Republican Convention of 2013 is one for the history books! Four years ago, after suffering a most humiliating defeat in 2008 that saw Democrats grab both houses of Congress and the White House, Conservatives, the newly formed TEA Party groups and Patriot groups, Libertarians and anyone else who saw [...]

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Bob “The Tax Governor” McDonnell has earned the nickname of Governor McTax for his massive $6 Billion incursion into the wallets and bank accounts of Virginians. As Tim Kaine left office, he tossed out a $2 Billion tax hike budget that even Democrats refused to vote for. And in less than four years under Governor [...]

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I can’t speak for my fellow Virginia Right! Blogger Sandy Sanders, but I will not personally endorse nor support Corey Stewart in the Republican Convention. Although I was a part of the Virginia TEA Party Federation / Middle Resolution vetting process over 2 days last week, and this process concluded by endorsing Stewart, I have [...]

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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback delivers the weekly Republican Address. In this video he sounds a lot like Virginia Governor McDonnell early on. “We faced a huge deficit when we took office and now have a surplus – and did it all without raising taxes.” That was a statement McDonnell used many times, but can no [...]

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Delegate Bob Marshall has asked Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (and the Republican Gubernatorial Candidate-in-Waiting) for a legal opinion on the massive tax increase bill pushed by Bob McDonnell and masquerading as a Transportation Bill (43% goes to grow government) as well as McDonnell’s plan to advance ObamaCare in the Commonwealth. BOTH ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL according [...]

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Bob McDonnell has until tomorrow – Saturday March 23, 2013 to either sign, veto or amend the massive $6.1 Billion tax hike called the Transportation Bill. CLICK HERE NOW TO EMAIL HIM AND TELL HIM TO VETO THE BILL! The pressure is immense and every email gets us closer to stopping this tax hike that [...]

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There was some good news coming out of CPAC this year. The younger, more Libertarian leaning Republicans rose to the moment and gave some stirring speeches. At least a few are trying to buck the trend of the RINO Republican Establishment Machine. But the Machine is fighting back. In a big way. The Old Guard [...]

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In two developments, I am pleased as a supporter of Del. Bell for AG, to report two items: First, Delegate Bell’s bill to authorize multijurisdictional grand juries for human trafficking cases was signed by the governor. “Working with the attorney general’s office, I introduced HB 1870 to allow multijurisdictional grand juries to investigate additional types [...]

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Wow. They call this monstrosity of a tax increase – $6.1 billion – the “Transportation Bill”. But only 57% is supposed to go to transportation. And we all know how “secure” that spending will be. There is no lock box. So as Bob McDonnell sends email after email trying to convince people that bigger government [...]

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“April Fools’ Day” came early this year.   Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a professed conservative Republican, together with the Republican-controlled House of Delegates, betrayed their loyal Republican constituents as “Fools of Deception.”  In the waning hours of the legislative session they produced a transportation bill praised in the press by Democrats Tim Kaine and wannabe- governor [...]

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— REMINDER — Mechanicsville TEA Party Meeting Thursday, March 7, 2013, 7:00 pm   The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!   For the next MTP meeting we will present a review of the 2013 session of Virginia’s General Assembly.  Come and learn the good, the bad and the ugly news of what travesties Virginia’s [...]

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Talk Show host Mark Levin rips Bob McDonnell a new one over his mega tax increase and Medicaid expansion. Even the Wall Street Journal said that the name of McDonnell comes up from time to time as a Presidential Candidate in 2016 – “well, that (tax increase) erases that”. Well said, Mark! Listen:

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The Progressive Liberal Republican in Name Only – RINO – Governor Bob McDonnell, who just pushed through the largest tax increase in Virginia history, was invited to the 2013 CPAC Convention. McDonnell has been asked to speak at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast. Now if you don’t know who Bob McDonnell is, this [...]

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My friend and Bearing Drift contributor Norm Leahy has penned an editorial for the Washington Post along with Paul Goldman in which they discuss the constitutional problems with the new Transportation Tax Increase. Those praising the Virginia General Assembly’s transportation compromise may not realize that the bill runs afoul of the plain language in the [...]

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This is from RedState. I will have more to say later today. Much more. On Friday, March 15, 2013, at 8:00 a.m. Bob McDonnell will go to CPAC and address the Faith & Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast. For those of you who attend this event, you will be sitting staring at a liar.   If [...]

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Thanks to Tom White, I was able to attend the Cantor/Jindal breakfast this am!  (In fact I am here – already I have been a few feet from my hero, Governor Bobby Jindal) I have gotten a solid, if blurry photo that should be in an update for this blog post.  I was invited up [...]

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Say it ain’t so! Speculation abounds and tongues are wagging that Bill Bolling, the current Republican Lt. Governor of Virginia, bitter about Attorney General Cuccinelli’s decision to run for Governor may run as an Independent. After assuming that the Republican Nomination was all locked up after his magnanimous gesture to seek a second term as Lt. [...]

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Remember when Candidate Bob McDonnell promised to balance the budget and solve the transportation funding problems without raising taxes? Apparently McDonnell, now Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia has forgotten his promise to voters. In a Press Release, Governor McDonnell announced his scheme to add an additional $3.1 Billion tax burden on the backs of [...]

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Bill Bolling, Virginia’s two term Lt. Governor has done some rethinking about his run for Governor of Virginia in 2013. After making a deal to allow Bob McDonnell to take the top spot on the ticket in 2009, with the intent of running for the state’s highest office in 2013, the Republicans opted for a [...]

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