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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's Plans: Jobs, Wine and Oil
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyVirginia's new Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, has ambitious plans for his state. He wants to put young Virginians back to work, make Virginia the first East Coast state to drill offshore, and to compete with California to become the wine capital of the United States. McDonnell made these points in his keynote address to the inaugural conference of the American Action Forum, which its Web site calls a new voice for "center-right ideas and action." With jobs as the focus of the conference, the governor said that "the scariest unemployment statistic we face" is the hidden unemployment ...
Bob McDonnell Faces Scrutiny for 2003 Views on Homosexuality
By David Sessions - Politics DailyVirginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, who has faced criticism over a 20-year-old thesis that described working women as "detrimental" to society, is now facing scrutiny for his strong views on homosexuality. In the controversial thesis, McDonnell included homosexuality as one symptom of moral decline that government should "punish." He also participated in a 2003 hearing that left many with the impression that a Virginia circuit court judge was thrown off the bench because of her sexual orientation. ...
Bob McDonnell, Stick to Your Guns
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyActually, Melinda, I don't find Bob McDonnell's "old thoughts" on "bad women" to be that far off the mark. In fact, if I were running McDonnell's campaign for governor of Virginia, I would tell him to stop backpedaling and stand up for family values. He just needs to make a speech clarifying the outdated language and broadening the context. McDonnell can regain the ground he has lost in this absurd sidebar issue if he'll just quit feeding the liberal media on this non-story. He has nothing to apologize for in the conservative positions he took in his 1989 graduate thesis on marriage and ...
Does Bob McDonnell Want to Outlaw Non-Marital Sex?
By David Corn - Politics DailyDoes Robert McDonnell, the Republican candidate in the Virginia governor's race, believe non-marital sex is a crime?McDonnell, who was widely regarded as leading Democrat Creigh Deeds in the off-year election, has hit a rough patch of his own making -- or writing. The 1989 master's thesis he submitted to the evangelical Regent University -- titled "The Republican Party's Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of the Decade" -- was unearthed by The Washington Post this past weekend, and it contained the sort of stuff oppo researchers die for. In the 99-page document, McDonnell outlined a ...
Bob McDonnell's 'Rebranding' is Going to be a Tough Sell
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyAs Melinda and Jill have mentioned, a 20-year-old homework assignment written by the GOP candidate for Virginia's governor recently tilted his carefully crafted campaign image into that of a barely evolved Neanderthal. For a good portion of Virginia's voters, the 55-year-old former state assemblyman and attorney general, Robert McDonnell, looks like their kind of guy. The pro-life, conservative, father of five, whose motto is "not to make excuses and to be accountable for my own actions," has a good chance of getting elected as Virginia's chief executive. His opponent, Democrat Creigh Deeds, ...
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