Is Doyle ready to exercise judgment?

Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney and Democrat, Jack Doyle, is on the short-list to becoming a circuit court judge in Norfolk. He is one of the four would-be judicial appointees of Sen. Yvonne Miller for Norfolk and Virginia Beach. However, some information has come to light that might derail his plans to become a judge, […]

Queen Yvonne

There are over 500,000 people in the commonwealth that live in the cities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach — all of them are being held hostage by the wishes of one Democratic Senator who wants to get her way on judges…Sen. Yvonne Miller.

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How to win friends and influence people

Former Senator Marty Williams to Del. Bill Janis: “If he wants to think that I’m more powerful out of the General Assembly than he is in it, that’s fine.” More fun here.

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Hillary wants Obama - No Moderator

Obama’s refused Hillary Clinton’s calls for more debates, so Hillary sweetened the offer - 90 minutes with no moderator: Lincoln-Douglas style.
Obama been refusing to debate, since the moderator’s questions have gotten tougher than ‘Would you like a pillow.’ So since Obama doesn’t like the questions, Hillary says fine. No moderator, just Hillary […]

Chesapeake QB says: “GO BLUE!”

Western Branch High School’s star QB, Kevin Newsome, is leaving the Blue Heron City for the Maize and Blue of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Today, Newsome made a verbal commitment to join the Wolverines.
Good choice, Kevin!

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The Spin Room: Now open

A new feature on Bearing Drift is “The Spin Room“. This page is dedicated solely to press releases and blog posts from campaigns, elected officials, and committees to see what’s on their agenda. We’ll be adding more feeds as they come available.
Check it out frequently. Thanks to Scott White for his help […]

Open Challenge to Deeds & Moran

There is a reason that no transportation solutions, especially statewide ones, ever move forward. The reason is shared by Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, and if nothing changes, nothing else will happen. Sen. Creigh Deeds or Del. Brian Moran could change everything if they spoke three simple words, the lack of which from […]

Chuck Smith Endorses Amit Singh

Chuck Smith, former Virginia Beach GOP chair, but more importantly, current RPV “Welcoming Committee” Chair, has just endorsed Amit Singh to be the GOP nominee in the 8th Congressional District.

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For state judges — its all politics

To become a judge you apparently have to know somebody — just not be related.

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Obama: “I think John McCain’s proposal for a sales-tax holiday on gasoline is a bad idea.” Oh, really?

Defending this apparent flip-flop, according to the WSJ Obama said:

“I originally voted for the suspension because I thought that it was extraordinary circumstances, given the huge hike in prices.” Gas prices averaged $1.52 a gallon in March 2000. [They’re averaging $3.51 today…nearly $2 more.]

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Nye takes up residence in the 2nd

Bearing Drift was happy to learn that pillar-of-the-community Democrat Glenn Nye has finally found a place to live in the 2nd Congressional District and attended his first civic league meeting this past week.
Welcome to the neighborhood!
In case you were wondering, Thelma Drake has lived in and served her community since 1967.

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Warner stumping at the Tidewater Builders Association

The past two years that he Tidewater Builders Association has held their “Build the Vote” gathering, their keynote speakers were Bob McDonnell and Thelma Drake. This year it was Mark Warner.
Any questions?

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Hillary to FOX viewers - Send Money!

Hillary’s message was clear - If Republicans want the Democrats to keep beating up on each other, send her cash!
She made her appeal on an interview with Fox News this morning, asking Fox viewers to go to her website to “help me out in this campaign so we can keep going.”

 
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More school sex scandals

At least this time it wasn’t a social studies teacher. Chesapeake police arrested Ashley Kristen Samaniego, 23, a Norfolk Academy basketball coach, on the allegation that she had sex with a female student aged 17. Story here.
Remember when school was the safest place your kids could be?

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14 Delegates

During last night’s “Decision 2008″ live-blog that was more about hockey than politics (by the way, Philadelphia did win in overtime and will play Montreal while Pittsburgh gets set for the New York Rangers), I commented shortly after Fox called the election for Clinton that “She may have won the popular vote, but I have […]

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