Gov. McDonnell: It’s ‘Counterproductive And Detrimental’ To Inform Workers Of Their Workplace Rights

h/t to Think Progress and the Wonk Room on covering Virginia’s radical right wing GOP Governor and his obvious desire for average working Virginians to remain ignorant of their rights in the workplace … check it out …

Wonk Room » Gov. McDonnell: It’s ‘Counterproductive And Detrimental’ To Inform Workers Of Their Workplace Rights.

“Catching up with Tim Kaine”

Jim Nolan of the Richmond Times Dispatch has an interesting look at the 70th Governor of Virginia’s life …

Catching up with Tim Kaine | Richmond Times-Dispatch.

On Saturday, February 12th DNC Chairman Kaine will be the featured speaker at James City County’s Democratic Committee banquet at the Williamsburg Hellenic Center, 4900 Mooretown Road, Williamsburg Virginia

VA GOP Tries To Revive Long Discredited Legal Doctrines to Advance Its Radical Right-Wing Agenda

Note:  h/t to Think Progress … check it out …

ThinkProgress » Virginia House Revives Doctrine of ‘Interposition’ Last Used To Defend Jim Crow.

Prince William Democratic Committee Elects Bruce Roemmelt Chair

As Virginia Democrats continue working to improve our committees the Prince William Democratic Committee has elected my very good friend, progressive Democrat, Bruce Roemmelt as Chair.  Bruce’s added a post to facebook saying, “Tremendously humbled tonight to be elected to lead the Prince William County Democratic Committee. Prince William County has 400,000 souls, every one precious and we will make a supreme attempt to serve with distinction and honor!”

Bruce Roemmelt with new DPVA Chair, Brian Moran

Will Virginia’s Primary Election Date be August 23rd for 2011

HB 1507 has passed both the House of Delegates and the State Senate and only needs the Governors signiture to make the date official … it will move the usual June primary date to August 23, 2011 …  the complicated redistricting process and the need to specify deadlines for filings make the Gov’s signiture almost certain … it’ll also make for a shortened general election season

SOTU — What America Heard ‘Salmon’

Note: one of the interesting takes on President Obama’s “State of the Union” speech came from New York Magazine’s online Daily Intel … check it out All America Heard Last Night: ‘Salmon’ — Daily Intel.

 

Photo: via Political Wire

This is a “word cloud” of President Obama’s State of the Union address. The size of the words correspond to the frequency with which they were uttered by Obama. By looking at the cloud (which doesn’t include common words like the, because that would be stupid), you can see some of the themes Obama focused on: “jobs,” “people,” “new.”

Last night, after it was over, NPR asked its listeners to describe Obama’s address in three words. They then tallied up all 4,000 or so responses and made that into a word cloud — a snapshot of what people took away from the speech. Here’s what it looks like:

 

NPR/Wordie

Some of Senator Jim Webb’s Accomplishments

Note: With two folks already entering their names in the Virginia GOP’s 2012 primary for the U.S. Senate seat held by the Senior Senator From Virginia, Jim Webb, the DPVA wanted to remind folks about just a few of his accomplishments since the 2006 election:

Jim Webb has a proven record as a leader in the Marines, the Pentagon and the Senate. In his first term he has built an impressive record of accomplishment with:
* The passage of his Post-9/11 GI Bill, which provides our newest generation of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans the same educational benefits that our veterans received after World War II. The bill offers new economic opportunities to hundreds of thousands of Americans and helps to strengthen the U.S. economy
* The passage of his Wartime Contracting Commission to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan wartime-support contract and potentially save taxpayers billions of dollars
* The introduction (and House passage) of his National Criminal Justice Commission Act through which he is leading the charge in Congress to comprehensively examine and restructure America’s criminal justice system.
* The passage of his TRICARE Affirmation Act to protect military health programs for service members, veterans, and their families.

By the fall of 2008, Washingtonian Magazine had named Senator Webb as the “Rising Star” in its “Best & Worst of Congress” edition, and Politico newspaper named him “Rookie of the Year.” By late 2008, Esquire Magazine counted Senator Webb among the world’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” for doing “more to repair his party’s relationship with the military” than anyone since the Vietnam War, and in October 2009, The Atlantic Magazine spotlighted Senator Webb as one of the world’s “Brave Thinkers” for tackling prison reform as a freshman senator and possessing “two things vanishingly rare in Congress: a conscience and a spine.”

Another GOP/TeaBagger Set To Announce U.S. Senate Bid

The following link takes you to an article from the New York Times that provides the details …

George Allen to Announce Plans for Senate Bid on Monday – NYTimes.com.

President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union Preview

2nd Anniversary of President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address