Virginia Right!

— 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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While I am appealing to important officials on political matters, I now turn from the state’s chief executive to the Lieutenant Governor and his possible intent to run for governor as an independent.  My appeal here is:  Don’t do it.  Please.  You are being used by liberals to destroy the great gains that Republicans have [...]

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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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Yes, I am for the so-called Bonita Bill (HB1430) and there will be a rally at the Bell Tower (I plan to be there!) at 330 with the committee vote at 5 pm.  Here’s a notice from VA Campaign for Liberty quoted by the Williamsburg Tea Party: The bill is scheduled to be heard by [...]

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I came across this proposed constitutional amendment that Sandy’s Favorite Democrat, State Senator Chap Petersen, introduced this session of the General Assembly: ARTICLE X TAXATION AND FINANCE Section 1. Taxable property; uniformity; classification and segregation. All property, except as hereinafter provided, shall be taxed. All taxes shall be levied and collected under general laws and [...]

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I am generally pleased with Governor McDonnell’s State of the Commonwealth address.  While it left out unqualified support for the Appellate Defender bill that Senator Petersen introduced and I support, it did contain these words that I do strongly support: While we have significantly improved and fast-tracked the restoration of civil rights process, it’s still [...]

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I am sick over this whole thing with the judge candidate in Richmond.  Delegates I respect and admire greatly led the drive to keep Tracy Thorne-Begland off the General District Court.  I understand their reasons – the fear of judicial activism – that is not illegitimate BUT it is unlikely that a court NOT of [...]

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Honestly, the last time I saw such a budget disaster, our last Democratic Governor Tim Kaine was behind it. Governor McDonnell and the Republicans had such a royal mess to clean up that we all knew it would not be easy. In fact, if you recall, the last budget Tim Kaine tossed out to the [...]

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I was prayerfully wondering what position for the Governor to take on the sonogram bill.  The Left is making distortions of a type that have incendiary potential, especially with those who get their information unfiltered from the MSM.  I came up with:  Take out the requirement that there be an invasive sonogram.  And that is [...]

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This post was written by: Rick Buchanan Fauquier County Tea Party Patriots Event Chair – VTPP Federation   On Monday, February 13th, the day before cross-over, I took on a responsibility incumbent on every citizen of our representative Republic. I took a day off from running my small business to visit my representatives in the [...]

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State Senator Tom Davis, prominent conservative and former chief of staff for Governor Rick Sanford, endorsed Ron Paul today! How important is it?  Ask Rick Santorum: “To get an endorsement from someone like Tom Davis is a big deal,” said former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, who announced a White House bid in June. “It would [...]

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This is a fascinating column in Blue Virginia by noted VA Democratic political adviser Paul Goldman.  Here’s the summary: Moreover: There is still time to make this change this year. The Governor should order the State Board of Elections to wait before starting to print the ballot. Based on my experience, they can wait until [...]

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I am excited and thrilled that Ron Paul got enough signatures to be on the Virginia ballot on March 6.  That is a personal tribute to the hard work of volunteers and the campaign to collect the 10,000 signatures (with 400 from each congressional district as part of that effort) needed to get on the [...]

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In the first part of this 2 part series we looked at the history of Popular Movements of the 60′s and 70′s and how they were co-opted by the political left as a means to an end. The article was a followup to an article written based on my visit to the Occupy Richmond on [...]

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This is the comment I received from a patriot and liberty/sovereignty activist in Washington State who wrote his US Senator, Maria Cantwell: I asked my “U.S. Senator” to defend our State and Constitution against the United Nations Agenda 21. Received the following typical Progressive BS form letter… But for God, We the People ARE ON [...]

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The new age of civility seems to be getting off to a rocky start. This video was brought to my attention and is both disturbing and a little shocking because I felt that even in Virginia there was still civility with in the political process, but I guess I was being optimistic. This is from [...]

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And the Lt. Governor of Virginia registers his thoughts on the Senate redistricting plan: RICHMOND – Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling today issued the following statement on Governor Bob McDonnell’s veto of the redistricting bill passed by the General Assembly: “I commend Governor McDonnell for vetoing the redistricting bill recently passed by the General Assembly.  I [...]

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The Virginia House of Delegates managed to come up with a bipartisan redistricting plan that saw a number of Democrats vote for the bill in the Republican controlled House. The Democrat controlled State Senate, on the other hand, managed to devise a plan so one sided and protectionist that it did not have a single [...]

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ICLEI – formerly the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (now called ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability) is a UN-blessed organization of local governments that campaigns for sustainable development and so-called climate change both in the USA and abroad.  Here is a summary of prior blog entries on it. It has foreign policy goals:  [...]

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