May 20 Deadline to Register for Democratic Primary

Fairfax County residents who want to vote in June 11 primary must register by Monday, May 20.

E. W. Jackson Wins GOP Lieutenant Governor Nomination

Did false endorsements passed around convention floor tip the scales for Jackson in the final hour?

Chesapeake minister and attorney E.W. Jackson won the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor late in the night Saturday after a long afternoon of voting to narrow the field from seven candidates. Jackson joins gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli and attorney general contender Sen. Mark D. Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, as the top Republicans in the upcoming election. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, businessman Pete Snyder withdrew from the race for lieutenant governor late Saturday. At least one blog, bearingdrift.com, notes E.W.Jackson won the final vote with 58 percent. Endorsement Errors Jackson had led the voting throughout the day. He just narrowly fell short in the third vote of the 50 percent he needed to clinch the …

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Shannon Mathews

1:30 pm on Sunday, May 19, 2013

I heard that those were passed out by mistake by a misinformed staffer and recollected after only a few were passed out. None made it anywhere near us. If it did happen its unfortunate but it does not serve the party well to accuse people of being dirty over a mistake. Most campaigns have papers like these made up in case someone throws support their way. It doesnt mean they are dirty just …   more ›

May 20 Deadline to Register for Democratic Primary

Fairfax County residents who want to vote in June 11 primary must register by Monday, May 20.

Residents who want to vote in the June 11 Democratic Primary to nominate candidates for Lt. Governor and Attorney General must be registered to vote by Monday, May 20. Voter applications submitted after May 20 will not be processed until June 12, a day too late to vote. Democrats Aneesh Chopra and Sen. Ralph Northam (D-Norfolk) will face off for the democratic nomination on June 11. Chopra, 40, served as Virginia’s Secretary of Technology from 2006-2009 and was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009 to serve as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer. Chopra lives in Arlington with his wife and two daughters. Ralph Northam, 53, has served as a member of the Virginia State Senate since 2007. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and …

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VA GOP to Nominate Candidates this Weekend

Thousands of delegates will gather in Richmond this weekend to nominate candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.

The Virginia Republican party will gather for its state convention in Richmond this Friday and Saturday to nominate candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general for the November election. Richmond will see an influx of 13,000 delegates to the convention – party activists who will nominate the candidates they think can maintain the party’s interests and win on November 5. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli became the party’s only nominee for governor when current Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling dropped out last year. Cuccinelli will be formally nominated this weekend and is expected to deliver an acceptance speech Saturday. A senior council in Virginia’s Republican Party made a last-minute decision to hold a convention instead of a …

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McAuliffe: Reform Virginia's Standards of Learning Tests

Democratic gubernatorial candidate laid out platform at George Mason's Arlington campus.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe said Thursday he would push to reform the state's Standards of Learning, or SOL, tests if he is elected in November. "The current, once-a-year, high-stakes, multiple-choice testing isn't working for students, parents or teachers," he told a crowd of more than 300 people at George Mason University's Arlington campus, to rousing applause. Under the current system, a fifth-grade teacher who raises a child from a first-grade reading level to a fourth-grade reading level is considered a failure, he said. Teachers who want to break up the test into smaller portions, or test at different levels based on student achievement should be encouraged, he said. McAuliffe also said he would establish a "…

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Northern Virginia Democrats See Turnout As Key to 2013 Governor's Race

ABC News: About half as many Virginians vote in gubernatorial elections as in presidential years.

Anyone familiar with Terry McAuliffe knows he can tell a good story. The one he told Thursday in Arlington, at George Mason's campus as he was wrapping up a five-day tour of the state, was about this past November. It was Election Day. McAuliffe, at the request of the campaigns of Barack Obama and Tim Kaine, was asked to head to a polling station in Henrico County, where voters were still waiting in a long line as darkness fell. He said he went there and handed out coffee, hot chocolate and hand warmers. And everyone got to vote. And then he asked everyone in the room to mobilize for this year's election. [McAuliffe: Reform Virginia's Standards of Learning Tests] Turnout, often, is key. But now more than ever that isn't lost on Northern …

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