Virginia 6th

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 [...]

The “Food Safety and Modernization Act” passed the Senate on Monday. The problem? A complete overreach of government into people’s lives. The bill essentially has the ability to prevent people from growing their own food in their backyards. Yes, this should make you very angry. Virginians should be proud that their senators were bribed (er… [...]

Judge Norman Moon tossed Liberty University’s Healthcare Lawsuit last night. he found that while they did have standing to bring it, his interpretation of the Commerce Clause allowed the healthcare bill. http://www.wset.com/Global/story.asp?S=13592362 Judge Moon should take a flying leap off his bench. There’s a big difference between regulating interstate commerce (economic actions people voluntarily take), [...]

There is a plot afoot to do away with VA’s convention to choose who the GOP Senate candidate will be. See story here: http://virginiafifthwatchdog.com/2010/11/state-central-committee-libertys-firing-squad/ Once again it looks like the RPV is up to it’s old tricks. On November 20th the State Central Committee is planning to decide on Primary vs Convention and with a [...]

VA6th Watchdogs has received a screen shot of an email sent by the Bosiger campaign that is purportedly from “Glenn Beck.” Obviously it’s not, as evidenced by the fact that it comes directly from bosiger4clerk@gmail.com as plainly visible here: Really? Come on Shelia. Really? It’s one thing to try and say “Oh, all the missing [...]