Unlike other U.S. Representatives from his part of Virginia, Randy Forbes refuses to meet in a debate with his challenger in this year’s election.

4th congressional district Democrats in Virginia have Wynne LeGrow, a strong candidate who isn’t afraid to acknowledge the extraordinary environmental challenges our nation faces.

One good sign of a party’s power is its effectiveness in carrying out bread-and-butter campaign tasks, tasks like getting the thousands of signatures to put party candidates on the ballot. Independent Political Report notes that the the Independent Green Party of Virginia has managed the feat of putting a candidate for the House of Representatives [...]

Six of seven Republicans seeking to challenge Glenn Nye in the 2010 congressional elections are Navy veterans.

Glenn Nye seems to have been betting that, if he just tried to please Republican voters by opposing health care reform, he would avoid any serious challenge from the 2010 election. Instead, the opposite has taken place. 5 candidates have announced their intention to run for the Republican nomination to take the district’s House seat from Nye.

For Democratic voters in Virginia’s 1st district who care about equality, the choice in the 2010 congressional primary is clear: Vote Krystal Ball, not Scott Robinson.

the Republicans in Congress are always complaining about how Democrats engage in too much wasteful government spending. Yet, here is Republican Representative Forbes asking for $200,000 to build a display in a visitor center.

Just before he voted on June 20, 2008 for H.R. 6304, legislation that guts the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, Republican Representative Randy Forbes of Virginia took to the floor of the House to identify the real problem with America. What, pray tell, is the real problem with America? Could it [...]

The following are the remarks of Democratic Representative Bobby Scott regarding H.R. 6304, the bill to nullify the Fourth Amendment rights of those living under American jurisdiction. Representative Scott of Virginia rose in opposition on the morning of June 20, 2008, just before H.R. 6304 was passed: I oppose H.R. 6304. It allows widespread acquisition [...]

This whole New South thing is a load of garbage when it comes to Virginia Republicans. They’re still pulling the old racist bull. They’ll come up with any excuse to forgive the fact that Republican Senator George Allen called a man a monkey just because he wasn’t of European ancestry.