Thelma Drake News

While U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye , D-2nd Dist., spends part of his July 4th holiday break on constituent services, his Republican detractors are sponsoring an automated call critical of the Congressman.

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So far, Peter Schmidt said, the issue hasn't really come up. The 82nd District candidate insists most of the discussion during his door-to-door campaign has centered on his goals for local and regional transportation.

Hector Barajas and Jason Cabel Roe are now with Revolvis Consulting . Photo: Courtesy New GOP firm targets Latinos With the nation growing more diverse, Republican consultant Jason Cabel Roe knows the GOP has a lot of inroads to make in minority communities.

NORFOLK -- Former U.S. Rep. Thelma Drake, a two-term Republican congresswoman who lost a re-election bid in November, announced Tuesday that she will not seek the seat in 2010.

Chuck Smith is the only announced Republican candidate for the 2nd District House race.

It's awfully hard to get guys to run for Congress when you can only promise them a career in the minority.

Two Democrats recently elected to Congress in Virginia did not support the budget plan that endorses President Barack Obama's goals.

Tributes were paid Monday to America's military men and women who've served this country in all wars.

ACCOMAC --Gubernatorial candidates Bob McDonnell, a Republican, and Brian Moran, a Democrat, will be interviewed Thursday during Melody Scalley's show, 'On the Edge of the Shore,' on WESR-FM from 6-9 p.m. Former U.S. Rep.

Here's the good news for the Republican Party of Virginia and its effort to get their candidate, former Attorney General Bob McDonnell , elected governor this fall: In the past 30 years -- as we wrote in breathtaking detail last Dec.

Republicans huddle today with the GOP leadership lining up to dump party chairman Jeff Frederick.

Despite the shock and anger they displayed when confronting AIG executives over their bonus schemes, lawmakers seem to share the same generous philosophy when rewarding their own staffs with taxpayer money in a recession.

A bill to require localities to sell the guns they collect in buyback programs to licensed dealers passed the General Assembly, then was called back and weakened.

They're out of Congress and still out of work. A handful of incumbents who lost last fall have yet to land new full-time jobs.

The bill is identical to legislation introduced last year by Representative Thelma Drake .

Rawlein G. Soberano, Ph.D. It is time for Congress to review and end many of the abuses surrounding H-1B visas and transfer these jobs back to American companies which hire Americans to cut unemployment at ...

Loading... In her first winter in 14 years not spent in Richmond or Washington, former Congresswoman Thelma Drake says shea s both busy and not busy.

KIPTOPEKE - Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade David Smith was on hand Monday morning to participate in a groundbreaking ceremony for the first phase of construction of the long-awaited fiber optic ...

State Central Committee member Chuck Smith has announced his run for the 2nd Congressional seat in VA, election in 2010.