We’re only just a few hours away from ending 2007. With that, here are a few political ramblings of mine.
2007 Elections
The RPV continued to bleed. We lost the Virginia Senate by a couple seats. Luckily the margin isn’t any wider and we still retain the House of Delegates to keep ole Tim […]

I hope everybody out there has a very Merry Christmas!
Let us not forget the abundance of things we have to be thankful for.

I just received an E-Mail announcement saying that Delegate Bob Marshall is forming a U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee. This should make things interesting. I don’t know too much about Marshall, other than he is a hard line Conservative, maybe more than Gilmore. Some interesting names, like Ken Cuccinelli and Shaun Kenney, are […]

Today is a proud day here at Smyth County Conservative. I have been accepted by the members of the ODBA to join them. I am humbled to be joining the ranks of some of the best bloggers Virginia has to offer. I appreciate their “seal of approval” very much.
The sidebar at right […]

Steve Minor over at Southwest Virginia Law Blog has an interesting post up about some speculation on the future of the position of Circuit Court Clerk in Virginia. It appears that Circuit Judge C. Randall Lowe has recommended that the duties of the position should be split into two jobs. The circuit judges […]

Yesterday, Governor Kaine released his proposed “budget.” I use the quotes because it is far from a sensible budget. Here is a RT-D article on the budget.
Kaine proposes lots of new spending in a time where he says we are short on money, like $56 Million for a new pre-kindergarten initiative. […]

Listed below are some of the interesting bills prefiled thus far for the 2008 Virginia General Assembly that I think should pass. In cases where multiple bills have been introduced about a single subject, I have just listed the subject. Maybe if some legislators coordinated amongst each other, so many duplicate or similar […]

The BHC is reporting State Senator William Wampler saying that he will remain in the Virginia Senate and not pursue a SCC seat.
More later.

J. Todd Foster, the editor of the Bristol Herald Courier, has in Sunday’s BHC his latest column with his very unique—and odd, strange, other similar adjectives here.—style of writing. All I can say is Wow! on this creation.

Roanoke Red Zone has an intriguing post up about the possibility the Virginia Senate Republicans could flop some Senate Democrats to Independents and take over the Senate. The Republicans would give the new Independents committee chairmanships. Senators Puckett, Deeds, Reynolds, and Edwards are mentioned as likely targets for such a move. This […]