News contributor Laura Ingraham is coming to Richmond this Tuesday to join Dave Brat for a rally in Eric Cantor's own neighborhood - the Dominion Country Club. Laura is a principled conservative that is an outspoken advocate against amnesty for illegal aliens and for the American worker. Alan Keyes and Shak Hill will also be [...]
Thursday evening we had our monthly meeting, with the main event topic being an overview of the Virginia Republican party (structure, makeup, etc). We started off the meeting with the general updates from Executive Director Larry Nordvig, followed by quick updates from any candidates or campaign representatives in attendance. Next, we went to board of [...]
Where: Our offices at Greatspace 10825 Midlothian Turnpike North Chesterfield, VA 23235 When: 7-8:30pm [column col="1/2"] "Get to Know The Republican Party of Virginia" "What does a Precinct Captain do?" "Who's on the State Central Committee?" "What's the best way to contact my Rep?" "Could the Tea Party really exert influence within the GOP?" Our [...]
Today in the election for VA 7th District GOP Chairman (House Leader Eric Cantor's District), tea party challenger Fred Gruber defeated incumbent GOP veteran Linwood Cobb. This one wasn't supposed to be close, as Cobb had the backing of the republican party insiders, and was considered to be safe from challenge. More on vote totals [...]
It's widely accepted that the default WordPress website comment system is not very robust, and requires each user to register for every site where commenting is desired. Over the last few years, a third-party comment system named "Disqus" has become very popular, with sites like Breitbart, The Daily Caller, and Virginia's own The Bull Elephant [...]
The Obama economy continues to decline, as these stark new numbers indicate. Bad economic policies accompanied by harsh regulation is strangling businesses, resulting in stunted (or no) growth. Major retail chains are downsizing or completely failing, all while you see the product sizes shrink for the items you purchase every day (while the prices of [...]
Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, spoke at our monthly meeting on April 24th. He discussed immigration policy and shared insight into the "back room" efforts underway to pass an amnesty bill. Below is a video from our YouTube channel. Photos from the meeting:
To all Chesterfield County residents: The Board of Supervisors will vote TOMORROW (Wednesday, 4/9) to decide whether or not to raise property taxes to meet budget shortfalls, instead of "right-sizing" the county budget to match current revenues (like you do in your own home budget). This will result in an average annual tax increase of [...]
To all Chesterfield County residents: The Board of Supervisors is expected soon to decide whether or not to raise property taxes to meet budget shortfalls, instead of "right-sizing" the county budget to match current revenues (like you do in your own home budget). This will result in an average annual tax increase of at least [...]
Earlier today, approximately 70 dedicated activists from around the state met for the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation quarterly summit meeting in downtown Richmond, Virginia. We heard several topics such as the many successes from various groups around the state, a General Assembly recap, and the current state of Medicaid expansion in Virginia. It's exciting [...]
To provide alternate news sources for liberty/freedom-minded folks in Virginia, the new Virginia Free Citizen online news site is now online and available! The VFC joins other sites like Fauquier Free Citizen and Greene Free Citizen to provide more/additional avenues for news around the state. Please visit the VFC and show your support! Below is [...]
