Virginia 6th

The “War on Women” was exposed in all it’s ugliness this week by Hilary Rosen, a DNC consultant who has visited the White House numerous times. After she was done saying stay at home moms like Ann Romney have never worked a day in their lives, she was attacked, and rightly so, on Twitter by [...]

There are 3 things we know for sure about Tuesday’s Virginia Primary: Only Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are on the ballot Write-in’s don’t count Someone WILL win Virginia’s 49 delegates For Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum fans, that means being denied the chance to help their candidate win the GOP nomination, right? Wrong. Virginia’s [...]

After 10 largely unchallenged terms in congress Bob Goodlatte’s ability to compromise in DC without consequence back home must be the envy of every sly politician scheming to escape the annoying restraints of accountability a purifying election race might provide. But while an unattended house makes a bold thief, overconfidence often leads to carelessness and [...]

A large crowd saw last night’s theatrical production at the City Council Playhouse – By Mateus Jewel Local players, “The Gang of Four,’ entertained us with the comic fantasy morality play entitled “Black is White. Or How a Warrant is not a Warrant.” Staged in three acts, the action stylized the conflict between the Mandarins [...]

The Lynchburg Tea Party debate is tonight at Liberty University’s Law School at 7pm. VA6th will be blogging from the debate via twitter. Follow @VA6thWatchdogs

Despite Bearing Drift’s best efforts to paint George Allen as the presumptive nominee for the Republican’s to take on Tim Kaine for the US Senate seat that Jim Webb currently has, the voters have other ideas (and so does Tim Donner, but more on that later). The results are shocking. Not shocking in that Jamie [...]

Lynchburg city’s proposed zoning ordinance search warrants have drawn a lot of attention. It will be voted on at 730pm at City Hall, 900 Church St. Public comment will be welcomed and limited to 3 minutes per person. They were first brought to the public by Alicia Petska of the News and Advance here: http://www2.newsadvance.com/news/2011/may/11/planning-commission-oks-warrant-search-ordinance-ar-1033292/ [...]

Lynchburg City Council will be voting on a controversial “zoning warrants” proposal by the Lynchburg Planning Commission. The proposal would give zoning officials the ability to get warrants to enter homes for non-criminal searches in an effort to find suspected zoning violations. While there, if they saw something they suspected (as persons not trained in [...]

In all the news coverage of the “tax cut deal” it’s been Obama vs. The GOP, Obama vs. The Dems, The GOP vs. The Dems. Where’s the Tea Party in all of this? A friend of mine asked me on facebook: My question is where are all the “Tea Party Like” organizations in all of [...]

The 6th District GOP Committee Treasurer Dexter Gaines has broken the state party rules and VA-6 Congressman Bob Goodlatte needs to hold him accountable. Article 7 Section C of the State Party Plan states that: “A member of an Official Committee is held to a higher standard of support for nominees of the Republican Party [...]