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Bradley Rees, a Republican congressional candidate hopeful, speaks to the crowd Saturday at the Danville Tea Party Tax Day at Ballou Park.

Organizers of a TEA or "Taxed Enough Already" party in Danville Saturday hope to pressure freshman Congressman Tom Perriello to vote against President Barack Obama on Health Care reform.

Reporting from Washington - The White House bills it as a "listening tour," a chance for President Obama's Cabinet to get out of Washington and hear what's on the minds of rural voters around the country.

Congressman Tom Perriello talked Wednesday about a recent vote to back a new controversial energy bill.

Congressman Tom Perriello declined a request for federal funds for Larry Sabato's Youth Leadership Initiative.

Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, is barely six months into his two-year term, but a Bedford man is already preparing to face off against last year's dark horse candidate in 2010.

In writing my novel, Defending College Heights, I had to do research into military recruiting practices on college campuses.

A controversy that prompted criticism of both U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello and University of Virginia pundit Larry J. Sabato has spurred Sabato's Center for Politics to take a step toward greater disclosure.

It's a tale as old as time: Politician, down on his luck, shacks up with a nice, unassuming little municipality.

Larry Sabato is a quote-mongering political scientist at the University of Virginia who's always talking to reporters because he likes talking.

Then-Sen. Hillary Clinton listens to the students sing as she stands with Larry Sabato after delivering a lecture to his class at the University of Virginia Center for politics.

Several Republicans are beginning to weigh a possible bid against U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy, a freshman congressman up for re-election next year.

Republicans considering '10 Congressional challenges. On 11 June 2009 with 1 comment Perriello's district, warned James Madison University political scientist Bob Roberts, was gerrymandered so it would always be held by a Republican.

State Sen. Creigh Deeds won the Democratic primary in Franklin County Tuesday for the party's nomination for governor in the November election.

State Sen. R. Creigh Deeds won Virginia's three-way Democratic primary for governor Tuesday with shocking ease, defeating a former Clinton White House insider and a former legislative colleague.

Virginia voters Tuesday will choose which Democrat will face presumptive Republican nominee Bob McDonnell in the governor's race.

Pulaski County and Virginia Democrats will have the chance to head to the polls Tuesday to settle once and for all who will be victorious in the tightly knit race between the party's three candidates for governor.

Former state Finance Secretary Jody Wagner has the experience of working for two Democratic governors, a slew of endorsements from elected officials across the state, and enough money to promote her campaign for lieutenant governor on television.

Mike Signer and Jody Wagner may not be household names. But both want to be the party's nominee for Virginia's No.

You remember those hateful thugs at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill that attacked a Tancredo event breaking a window and making threats of "Yes, racists, we will fight, we know where you sleep at night!"? It was all caught on video back in April .