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Republican Ken Cuccinelli proposes $1.4 billion tax cut
Steve Contorno
Published: Tue, May 7, 2013
Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli promised Tuesday to slash Virginia income taxes by $1.4 billion and pay for the cuts by eliminating tax loopholes, making a call for lower taxes a central tenant of the gubernatorial canddiate's economic plan. In his first major policy announcement of...
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Bill Bolling rips into Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe tax plans
Steve Contorno
Published: Tue, May 7, 2013
Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling is no longer in the race to be Virginia's next governor, but he's happy to sit on the sidelines and play armchair candidate. Bolling, who has recently lamented his decision not to enter the race as an "independent Republican," criticized the two remaining gubernatorial...
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Cuccinelli OK'd McAuliffe deal he's now criticizing in governor race
Steve Contorno
Published: Tue, May 7, 2013
When it comes to challenging Democrat Terry McAuliffe's business chops, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has found a new venture to criticize: Franklin Pellets, a manufacturing outfit in Hampton Roads backed by an investment group that includes McAuliffe and some of his buddies. Franklin...
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Virginia governor race shifts from politics to policy
Steve Contorno
Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013
Bogged down by competing controversies, Virginia's gubernatorial candidates are looking to change the conversation this week by talking about what they would actually do as governor. Democrat Terry McAuliffe is shifting from his campaign-trail listening tour to roll out an agenda he hopes will...
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With FBI probe, Gov. Bob McDonnell loses squeaky clean image
Steve Contorno
Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's Boy Scout image suffered a major blow last week with the revelation that the FBI is investigating his family's relationship with a rich campaign contributor who lavished them with gifts. The federal investigation is likely to take months, but the fallout is...
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Ken Cuccinelli allowed to recuse himself from executive mansion chef case
Steve Contorno
Published: Thu, May 2, 2013
A Richmond judge decided Thursday to allow Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to recuse his office from an embezzlement case involving the governor's former chef, Todd Schneider, citing Cuccinelli's conflict of interest as the chief concern. Cuccinelli last month asked the court to...
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Poll: Mark Warner, Martin O'Malley far behind 2016 Dem presidential race
Steve Contorno
Published: Thu, May 2, 2013
Two Potomac politicians are in early consideration for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but if Hillary Clinton decides to run "consideration" might be too strong a word. In a national Quinnipiac Poll released Thursday on how the 2016 field is shaping up for the Dems, Sen. Mark...
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell says firm in FBI probe got no special deals
Steve Contorno
Updated: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell denied Tuesday that he ever gave special consideration to Henrico-based Star Scientific in the face of reports that the FBI is investigating the Republican's relationship with company CEO Jonnie Williams. Speaking on WTOP's monthly "Ask the Governor" program,...
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3-Minute Interview: Olympic sprinter Tommie Smith, icon for giving black power salute
Steve Contorno
Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
Smith is a former Olympic sprinter. In 1968, he won the 200-meter dash and became a civil rights icon for striking the black power salute on the podium. On Saturday, he is scheduled to be in D.C. attending the 5th Annual Tommie Smith Youth Track Meet, hosted by 100 Black Men of Greater...
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