Virginia Right!

I left the Virginia GOP convention because I had voted (for Bishop Jackson for the fourth time!) and I had neglected my family enough and did not choose to see the acceptance speech. But I missed the excitement with the allegations that the Snyder campaign had made up endorsements of key people to try to [...]

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12:54PM: I am in the media section with great seats in the back of the ground floor.  I have seen and been greeted by too many to mention but I will mention one or two as I listen to the Lieutenant Governor candidates.  I shout out to Del. Peace who provided the Hanover delegation with [...]

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My fellow blogger Sandy Sanders and I discussed possibly endorsing a candidate for Lt. Governor and while we had the same candidates in mind for our top choices, we were not in agreement on a single candidate. In the Attorney General race we had a split decision I endorsed Mark Obenshain and Sandy endorsed Rob [...]

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A recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request yielded the following information: A school Crossing Guard in Hanover County works 4 hours per day and the job is a Pay Grade 6 position that pays $10.69 to $19.07 per hour. The school year is 180 days. At 4 hours per day for 182 days at [...]

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It looks like Virginia Right! has a split decision on the Attorney General Candidate this year. My fellow blogger Sandy Sanders has already endorsed Rob Bell and by agreement between us if we do not agree on an endorsement, we may endorse personally, but not in the name of Virginia Right! Both Rob Bell and [...]

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I (Sandy) have known Del. Chris Peace for sometime.  In fact, even when I was not in his district, I was impressed with him very much. Delegate Peace has become a leader in the House of Delegates.  He had a regular column in the Times-Dispatch.  He is a movement conservative and generally votes right.  He [...]

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Update: Virginia Right! endorses Buddy Fowler. I have personally known Buddy Fowler for several years and have had many chats with him. (Buddy and I were both Magisterial District Chairmen in Hanover.) He is not only a good man, he is a strong Conservative and will be a reliable successor to John Cox (whom I [...]

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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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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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I just got off the phone with a person calling from 804-446-4934 claiming to be conducting a survey about the Virginia Republican Convention. I agreed to answer the three questions on the survey. I am signed up to be a Delegate and assumed this was related to that fact. The first question was “Who do [...]

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I am pleased and excited to report that Del. Rob Bell, our next Attorney General, WON, that’s right WON, a Tea Party straw poll in Hampton Roads according to this report in Virginia Virtucon with 56% of the vote after a forum where BOTH GOP candidates were present! Delegate Rob Bell was victorious over Harrisonburg [...]

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I was amazed but also very pleased to see the support for Del. Bell announced yesterday in an email.  Here is the entire list on the website! Check out the Hanover list – six elected officials from our county coming out for BELL! Hanover County Delegate Christopher Peace Honorable Trip Chalkley, Commonwealth’s Attorney Sheriff Dave [...]

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When I ran for delegate many years ago, part of my platform was to reform the Virginia divorce laws. I tried to argue that the long separation periods and endless litigation acted as a wheel to run over women and children. Well – nothing’s really changed. It still takes a year of separation to finish [...]

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My wife was greeted by a visitor to my home yesterday (Tuesday); it was Rollin Reisinger, field director for the Bell for AG campaign.  I have gotten to know Rollin and he is dedicated, let me tell you!  He brought to me a couple of the forms necessary to become a delegate to the GOP [...]

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Below is a letter from Cathy Marshall to Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins about the Republican’s intent to raise our taxes. I completely agree with Cathy Marshall and urge everyone to email Chairman Mullins and let him know your feelings. His email address is Pat@rpv.org I prefaced my email to Pat with the following: [...]

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Sandy, who is ON LOCATION at the Cong. Eric Cantor breakfast with Gov. Bobby Jindal (Sandy’s hero) at the Richmond Convention Center is ready to make a decision in the Attorney General’s race (Not a BLOG endorsement of course) and that person is: Delegate Rob Bell! Why Bell? Well, I met Del. Bell last year [...]

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As reported masterfully by Tom White at this blog, fifty (now I understand something less than fifty thanks to the VR and patriots writing into their delegate!) GOP delegates voted for the omnibus Agenda 21 bill! I am glad to see that two of them were not Delegates Chris Peace (my delegate!) and John Cox(my [...]

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After declaring Delegate Scott Lingamfelter’s bid for Lt. Governor dead as far as Virginia Right! was concerned, Lingamfelter’s office contacted me by phone and let me know that it was the Delegate’s intent to vote against the bill and they were in the process of fixing the record. It has now been corrected and Lingamfelter [...]

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UPDATE: A few minutes after publishing this article, I received a call from Delegate Linghamfelter’s office. His vote was recorded as Yea in error. Lingamfelter had intended to vote against this bill and the error is in the process of being corrected on the official record. As a result of that error, we have “unscratched” [...]

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