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Six-figure ad buy in support of Kaine
Americans for Contraception released new ads Tuesday thanking United States Senator Tim Kaine as part of their campaign to applaud Democratic Senators for voting in favor of the Right to Contraception Act.
The ad will be running in Virginia and is part of a six-figure purchase.
Kaine is running for reelection to a third term in the Senate this November.
At task force meeting, military families rip ‘ugly side of Virginia’s government’ - Virginia Mercury
by Graham Moomaw
Kristen Fenty of Virginia Beach says her daughter Lauren only got one moment of physical proximity to the father she never got a chance to know. It happened when she was a baby, still small enough to be lifted onto her father’s casket.
As a room full of government officials listened Monday, Fenty told the group that her daughter — who was 28 days old in 2006 when her dad, Lt. Col. Joe Fenty, was killed in a helicopter crash — is now 18, preparing to go to college and hoping to eventually go to medical school.
But a tuition waiver program Fenty assumed would help pay for her daughter’s education, the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program, has been thrown into limbo due to state leaders’ controversial efforts to cut the program’s growing costs.
With a week to primaries, money keeps flooding campaigns - RTD
by Michael Martz
If money talks, the volume is getting loud a week before Virginia primaries for the U.S. Senate and a handful of competitive House districts.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., has raised more than $14.6 million for his reelection campaign and had $8.6 million in the bank on May 29. Kaine has more money on hand than all five Republicans vying in the June 18 primary have collected.
The next phase in the House GOP power struggle is beginning - Politico
by Ally Mutnick
Good, one of the eight who ousted McCarthy, has one of the most contested primaries this month. Bacon said he’s urged his donors to support Good’s opponent, John McGuire, with the pitch: “Do you want to help out somebody that will change the House for the better? More collegiality and teamwork and less infighting.”
The plan to reshape the caucus is two-fold. Players aligned with current and former party leaders, and donors seeking a more functional Republican conference, are spending in open seats to block potentially problematic candidates. They are also attempting to prune the existing problems by working against incumbents who have stymied the majority’s attempts to govern.
Former Del. Anderson files federal lawsuit over Virginia speed cameras - WTKR
A federal lawsuit filed Monday challenges the legality of Virginia's speed camera law. The cameras are allowed to be placed around schools to try and address speeding.
Attorney and former state delegate Tim Anderson is a known critic of the cameras. He filed the lawsuit on behalf of a man named Gerrod Seifert, who was fined for speeding by a camera in Chesapeake in Sept. 2022, the lawsuit says.
Richmond fires several finance department employees - VPM
by Dave Cantor
Several people have been fired this spring from Richmond’s finance department, two sources told VPM News.
The move comes following the city bringing on government management specialist Anne Seward to consult with the department on policy and to assist in a review of the meals tax.