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Romney out with new ad on welfare

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:58:00 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER Welfare is at the focus of a new TV ad from GOP presidential candidate Mitt...

Obama campaign to open six more offices

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:58:23 -0400

BY OLYMPIA MEOLA President Barack Obama’s campaign plans to open six more offices this weekend,...

Allen accepts three more debates with Kaine

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:43:46 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTERFormer Gov. George Allen, the Republican U.S. Senate nominee, has agreed to three...

Romney camp launches Richmond-focused video

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:19:13 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign has released a...

UPDATED: Obama campaign airs TV ad on tax study

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:09:00 -0400

BY OLYMPIA MEOLA President Barack Obama’s campaign has released a TV ad in Virginia and other...

Robinson resigns from Florida education post

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:34:00 -0400

BY OLYMPIA MEOLA Gerard Robinson, the former Virginia education secretary who left to become...

McDonnell heads to Colorado for RGA, Romney events

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:37:00 -0400

BY OLYMPIA MEOLA Gov. Bob McDonnell leaves for Colorado today to attend a Republican Governors...

Romney coming to Virginia on bus tour

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:08:04 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney will swing through Virginia next week as...

Clark to visit Roanoke, launch new Obama effort

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:29:36 -0400

BY OLYMPIA MEOLA Retired Gen. Wesley Clark will visit the Roanoke area tonight to launch “Military...

Romney hits Obama on auto bailout in new ad

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:57:12 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER In a TV ad eerily similar to some of those used against him by Democrats,...

Webb co-sponsors bill to raise minimum wage

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:29:34 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER Outgoing U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., is co-sponsoring legislation that would...

Crossroads GPS out with new ad focused on economy

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:21:46 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER Crossroads GPS, a conservative group founded by Karl Rove, is out with a new TV...

Romney out with positive new ad

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:14:32 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER You’ll soon be seeing something unusual on television: a positive political...

Kaine releases energy plan

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:10:00 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER Former governor and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Timothy M. Kaine has...

Kaine calls for new plan to avoid defense cuts

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:37:00 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER On Monday, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Timothy M. Kaine laid out his views...

Jindal coming to Richmond for Romney fundraiser

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:01:00 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is coming to Richmond next month to raise money for...

Watch last weekend's U.S. Senate debate

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:47:30 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTERDemocratic U.S. Senate candidate Timothy M. Kaine’s campaign has released a...

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-7th, said during an...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:20:00 -0400

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-7^th, said during an interview today on the CBS This Morning that the U.S. House of Representatives will bring a measure to the floor next week that will “ensure that taxes don’t go up on anybody.”

Cantor supports extending the so-called Bush-era tax cuts to people at all income levels, while the U.S. Senate recently approved a measure that extends the tax rates to families making less than $250,000 a year.

President Barack Obama has also called for an extension of the tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 a year. The rates are set to rise Jan. 1.

Later in the CBS interview, Cantor, who in another recent interview said his party should promote tolerance, was asked whether Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., was “out of line.”

Bachmann and four other lawmakers in June penned letters to the inspectors general of various federal government agencies regarding the Muslim Brotherhood.

Cantor said “I think that if you … read some of the reports that have covered the story I think that her concern was about the security of the country. So that’s about all I know.”

— Olympia Meola

RNC launches new ad attacking Obama, stimulus plan

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:24:52 -0400

BY WESLEY P. HESTER The Republican National Committee is up with a new TV ad in Virginia and seven...