Jason Kenney
Jason Kenney is the director of RedStormPAC, providing free online fundraising solutions to Republican candidates throughout Virginia. He is a graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University and resides in Richmond, Virginia.
Jason also blogs at J's Notes
Hurt And Perriello To Debate One on One
After passing on Wednesday’s Senior Statesmen of Virginia forum on Wednesday, Robert Hurt’s campaign on Friday released a statement welcoming Tom Perriello’s offer of one-on-one debates between now and November’s election. Perriello’s office offered four one-on-one televised debates. Hurt’s statement (available below) did not specify how many he would attend. This statement appears to settle [...]
Media Holdouts In The Digital Age
The Economist wrote last month about media’s analogue holdouts and how they may be missing out on some awesome digital benefits: They have some good reasons. Online advertising is worth much less than television or print advertising. It is hard to persuade people to pay much (if anything) for digital content. Technology firms such as [...]
Jim McKelvey Endorses Robert Hurt in VA-05
Almost two months after the primary, candidate for Republican nomination Jim McKelvey has endorsed Robert Hurt for Congress in Virginia’s 5th District. Press release from McKelvey’s Take Our Country Back PAC is after the break.
Birthday Money Bomb For Robert Hurt
When Robert Hurt won the Republican nomination in last Tuesday’s primary in Virginia’s 5th District he won the honor of having to go toe to toe with Tom Perriello, not only considered to be one of the most vulnerable freshman Representatives in the nation but one with a warchest of over $2 million. I thought [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Identity of “Guardians of the free Republics” who called for McDonnell’s resignation
Washington Post is reporting that Governor Bob McDonnell was among 30 other governors to receive a letter calling for his resignation or face “removal”. The letter was drafted by Guardians of the free Republics. Their website doesn’t offer much in terms of their identity and members. But it does make a bold call to peaceful [...]
UPDATED: Governor Issues Executive Directive On Discrimination (LG and AG respond)
Today Governor Bob McDonnell’s office released Executive Directive One on state standards on discrimination in the workplace: Employment discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated by this Administration. The Virginia Human Rights Act recognizes the unlawfulness of conduct that violates any Virginia or federal statute or regulation governing discrimination against certain enumerated classes of [...]
Rest Areas And Potholes
The two are a lot more related than you’d think. One of Governor Bob McDonnell’s first acts upon taking office was to have VDOT begin the process of reopening Virginia’s rest areas that had been shuttered due to budget cuts: Under the plan approved today, the Virginia Department of Transportation will use $3 million from [...]
Two New Polls Give Republicans Sound Sweep
Both SurveyUSA and Public Policy Polling has new numbers out and they aren’t looking good for any of Virginia’s statewide Democratic nominees. SurveyUSA: Governor Bob McDonnell: 58 Creigh Deeds: 41 Lt. Governor Bill Bolling: 56 Jody Wagner: 42 Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: 57 Steve Shannon: 41 SurveyUSA is heavy Central Virginia but still has McDonnell [...]
Making Sense Of The Latest Dollars In The Race For Governor
Republican nominee Bob McDonnell out raised Democrat Creigh Deeds 4 to 3 in the first three weeks of October. Most of McDonnell’s $4,019,760 was thanks in a large part to in-kind contributions from the US Chamber of Commerce of nearly $1 million and RPV. Of McDonnell’s $1.8 million cash raised from 4171 donations, no contributions [...]
UPDATED: Financial Filings Due Today
All races this November have filings due by 5pm today. VPAP will have sortable lists available by 6pm tonight and Bearing Drift will have numbers and thoughts later tonight as well. 2:21pm UPDATE: The Washington Post is already reporting some numbers. In the race for LG, Democrat Jody Wagner is reporting $465,000 raised from 503 [...]
NYT: In Praise Of Terry McAuliffe And The Campaign That Could Have Been
Adam Nagourney has a piece in today’s New York Times reflecting on how Virginia’s gubernatorial campaign might have been were Terry McAuliffe the nominee instead of Creigh Deeds: The most recent Washington Post poll showed Mr. McDonnell leading Mr. Deeds by a 53 percent to 44 percent margin; while there is certainly time for Mr. [...]
DisAbility Votes Puts Their Mouth Where Their Money Is
DisAbility Votes is a non-partisan PAC that advocates as a voice for the disabled in Virginia politics. A much needed voice if this statistic from their website is true: Virginia ranks 47th nationally in services to people with disabilities. This is an appalling lack of respect for almost 24% of Virginia’s citizens. Yesterday they released [...]
When Deeds Staffers Attack [UPDATE]
Yesterday morning, Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds held an event to meet the public outside of the Clarendon Metro station. Instead of engaging the public, Deeds’s campaign staff does everything they can to keep the public and their policy questions away. So here’s another question: Just how many sections of the Code of Virginia did [...]
Former DPVA Chairman Paul Goldman On Wilder Non-Endorsement
Paul Goldman, former DPVA chair and campaign manager for Doug Wilder’s 1989 run for Governor, call’s Wilder’s statement “to be of particular trouble for Creigh Deeds”: The failure of former Governor Wilder to endorse Mr. Deeds is one thing: the statement Mr. Wilder issued to justify explain it quite another. Wilder didn’t just non-endorse, he [...]
FOP To Endorse GOP Ticket Tomorrow?
Media advisories are flying that the GOP ticket is having a press conference to announce a big endorsement tomorrow morning. Virginia Virtucon is reporting that this endorsement will be from the Fraternal Order of Police. The FoP endorsed Bob McDonnell over Creigh Deeds for Attorney General in 2005 but endorsed Mark Warner for Senate last [...]
Creigh Deeds Plans To Have A Transportation Plan After He’s Elected
Criegh Deeds, in his own words, in today’s Washington Post: The day after I’m elected, I will begin assembling a bipartisan commission to craft a comprehensive transportation package. Like Gov. Baliles did, I will appoint Republicans, Democrats and independents along with private-sector leaders and transportation experts. The commission would begin work in December and issue [...]
Steve Shannon Happily Takes Contributions From Ethically Challenged DAGA
Steve Shannon feels the next Attorney General must stand strong on ethics and in defending the public trust. At least that’s how he’s shrouding his political ploy of attacking Ken Cuccinelli for understanding his responsibility as Attorney General. So will Steve Shannon return the $25,000 he has received from the Democratic Attorney Generals Association? You [...]
RTD Shows Cuccinelli Gets It, But Who Will Ask Shannon?
In today’s Richmond Times Dispatch, Ken Cuccinelli addresses Steve Shannon’s political ploy to turn the Attorney General’s job into a part time position: Cuccinelli said one possible outcome of the ethics panel is to refer the case to the attorney general. “I’m not going to call for [a resignation] because that would suggest a conclusion [...]
Steve Shannon Holds Con Call To Say He Can’t Do The Job Of AG
Lowell Feld is reporting that Steve Shannon held a conference call today to emphasize to Virginians that he would be unable to fulfill his role as Attorney General because of the strong urge to score political points. From Blue Virginia: “Delegate Hamilton’s actions are intolerable. That is why I was the first state official to [...]
Charlie Diradour Lies In Announcement Speech, Says Campaign Was A Mistake
Virginia 3rd Congressional District resident and hopeful 7th District Democratic nominee Charlie Diradour announced yesterday that he would be running against Rep. Eric Cantor because Rep. Cantor was tweeting during President Obama’s joint session address on Health Care. Problem is, Cantor wasn’t tweeting. He was taking notes. Prompting Diradour to announce that his reason for [...]
The Moral High Ground?
Following Rep. Joe Wilson’s “you lie!” outburst and the Democratic response, this really has to be said: How can Democrats say health care reform is a “moral imperative” yet deny coverage to millions of human beings (illegal immigrants) merely based on whether or not they pay into the government system? The two don’t mesh. (Cross [...]
Steve Shannon Goes On The Offensive, Recuses Himself From Hamilton Investigation
Once again, Democratic nominee for Attorney General Steve Shannon has failed to understand what exactly he is running for. After having labeled Ken Cuccinelli’s call for a special session a “political stunt” but then findinig himself in Richmond for a day to attend said special session, Steve Shannon has now decided to show his lack [...]
Rasmussen: McDonnell up by 9 AFTER WaPo hit piece
A Rasmussen poll conducted after the Washington Post focus on Bob McDonnell’s writings 20 years ago gives McDonnell a 51-42 lead over his opponent Creigh Deeds, up from 49-41 a month ago: To this point, just 49% of Likely Voters say they’ve followed news stories on this topic even somewhat closely. Twenty-four percent (24%) say [...]
Deeds On Priorities
Today Democratic gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds took part in a live interview through the Times Dispatch where he took questions from the public. Yours truely happened to have his question asked first. Look, ma, I’m on virtual TV! For those that don’t want to watch the video, my question was this: During the VBA debate [...]
What We’ve Come To Expect From Virginia’s Biggest Democratic Bloggers
Lynn Mitchell puts it best when she quotes an old carpentry saying: “Measure twice … cut once.” In other words, be certain before putting saw to wood because there’s no turning back. Yesterday, Ben Tribbett of Not Larry Sabato measured once and then cut clean through his thumb, posting a picture of a Confederate flag [...]
PPP: Republican Ticket Up Double Digits Across The Boards
PPP has new numbers out that look VERY good for the Republican statewide ticket: Bob McDonnell: 51 Creigh Deeds: 37 Bill Bolling: 48 Jody Wagner: 34 Ken Cuccinelli: 45 Steve Shannon: 32 Full results and breakdowns are available here.
Steve Shannon On Fair Use
Steve Shannon’s campaign seems to not care about fair use, copying a Roanoke Times article in its entirety and reproducing it on his website. While there is nothing wrong with quoting and linking to news articles (it’s the very backbone of most blogs), ripping an entire article without permission is a big no-no. Even we [...]
Shannon Can’t Get A Bill Passed, Blames Cuccinelli
Democratic Attorney General nominee Steve Shannon has finally responded to Ken Cuccinelli’s call for special session and wonders why Ken Cuccinelli couldn’t support a bill that didn’t even get out of a House subcommittee. Shannon asks why Cuccinelli did not support Shannon’s HB 3086 in 2007. Problem is, HB 3086 died in the Criminal Law [...]
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