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Chairman Moran joined Obama for America to drop off petitions to place President Obama on the ballot in Virginia.
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Senator Northam and Chairman Moran go door to door in Norfolk.
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Hypocrisy Alert: A Brand New George Allen

2/03/2012
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The Democratic Party of Virginia has made a practice of pointing out the many, many ways in which former Senator George Allen's current campaign rhetoric does not match his behavior and record during his six years in the U.S. Senate and his political career before that.

 

From his hypocrisy on budget cuts and the debt ceiling to congressional pay, the theme of Allen's campaign so far is "pay no attention to the things I did the last time you hired me."

 

McDonnell walks toward wind energy as Allen whines on the sidelines

2/02/2012
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This afternoon the Obama administration announced that the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is moving forward with the next step in offshore wind energy development off the Virginia coast. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell celebrated the progress and acknowledged that clean energy technologies like wind, solar and biomass must be a part of Virginia's energy future.

 

McDonnell's support for wind energy stands in stark contrast with fellow Republican and former Senator George Allen, who is running for re-election on a campaign message that overtly excludes clean energy and the jobs that come with it.

 

Allen's STOCK Act Silence Speaks Volumes

1/31/2012
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Allen's STOCK Act Silence Speaks Volumes

Ultimate Washington Insider Stays Silent on Congressional Insider Trading Ban

 

Yesterday, in a rare act of bipartisanship, the U.S. Senate voted 93-2 to move the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act forward toward final passage. The STOCK act is a commonsense measure to ensure that legislators and their staff do not use insider information to line their own pockets or the pockets of other Washington insiders.

 

Ensuring that members of congress and their staffs play by the same rules as the rest of Americans may seem like a proposal that everyone can embrace enthusiastically, but as of this afternoon Senator George Allen had yet to say as much as one positive public word about the legislation. Allen's silence raises questions about whether the years he spent following his 2006 defeat selling his Washington insider ties as a 'consultant' to oil companies has influenced his opinion of the proper ways for congressional leaders to make money.

Allen doubles down on Recovery Act Hypocrisy

1/31/2012
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Richmond, VA - Today the Democratic Party of Virginia released a new web video highlighting former Senator George Allen's continued hypocrisy on the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Allen has repeatedly (and falsely) referred to the Recovery Act as the "jobless stimulus," while simultaneously pointing to Virginia companies that benefited from the Recovery Act throughout his campaign.

 

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