Daily Archives: 08/11/2005

va: poisson and kaine win!

It looks like Dick Black will have to take his pink fetus keychains back to his house. David Poisson, the Democratic challenger, appears to have won the race in Virginia’s 32nd district. As I write, 75 percent of precincts are reporting and Poisson leads, 53-47. It’s looking good. And Tim Kaine held off Jerry Kilgore

nicole took my parking spot!

It turns out that The Vanishing, a new movie starring Nicole Kidman, is filming just down the street from where I live. As a result, parking spaces for at least 50 cars have been deemed off-limits until at least November 17th. Spaces on R Street, Decatur Street, and 22nd Street have been marked with the

“fun with realaudio” not so fun for kaine

I figured that the governor’s race in Virginia would get nasty, but I didn’t figure that the theocon PACs would stoop to the level of fabricating a phone message “from Tim Kaine” that totally warps and misconstrues his positions on the issues. Here’s the text of the call: [voice of Tim Kaine] “I am running

two days of politics, va and me style

For the past two days. I’ve been working the trenches for the 2005 elections. It’s good to keep my feet wet with regard to electoral politics, and this year’s races are fairly interesting for an off-year. On Sunday, I did a canvass for David Poisson, who is running for the Virginia House of Delegates. Poisson,