cam, 282 words, 0 comments, US 2008 Presidential Election, Virginia

Virginia is of interest to me as up until November of last year I lived in Northern Virginia. It was my home for six years or so. I was all part of the changes occurring in Virginia as out of state skilled workers come into the northern areas of Virginia and work in the wider Washington DC telecommunications, government and defense industries. So it was interesting to watch Virginia start red during the night and slowly go blue as the northern county polling stations started adding to the state totals.

From a county map the state looks to be largely red. And it is. This is the difference between NoVA and RoVA as the schism is called. Where NoVA is Northern Virginia and RoVA is condescendingly known as the Rest Of Virginia.

In the suburbs tightly around DC the counties went to Obama by about 10% with difference between the northern counties and southern counties being population. Fairfax County has a population of 500,000 while Smyth County in the lower left of the state has a population of 16,000. This is why the northern counties controlled who the electoral college votes went to.

Heavy urbanization in modern American means a political lean to blue as a rule of thumb. (more)

cam, 377 words, 5 comments, Virginia, Virginian Politics, Tim Kaine, Mark Herring, Marty Martinez

He had an important message about the upcoming Virginia elections. I hung up. I hate robocalls. If I could vote in Virginia Kaine would not be getting a tick on the ballot from me. He supported and signed into law the unconstitutional act which failed the equal establishment clause aimed at out of state drivers. I do not believe a separate executive exists to pass unconstitutional laws. They have a moral responsibility to acts as a rights referee and veto anything that contravenes a bill of rights. The 14th Amendment in the US Constitution is one of the few that obligates the states. Hence, in my opinion, Kaine failed his responsibilities. (more)

cam, 228 words, 0 comments, Virginia, Illegal Immigration, Loudoun County

There is a business backlash against Loudoun County council policies to punish illegal immigration. One of the interesting comments was from Tony Howard of the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce. (more)

cam, 771 words, 0 comments, USA, Virginia, Henrico District Court, Archer Yeatts, Anthony Price, Virginian Politics

A Henrico District Court Judge has decided that the fees on Virginian drivers which are in addition to the normal penalties are unconstitutional. Too often the judicial ends up being the last barrier between bad laws and bad policy; legislators and the executive force this state of affairs. The decision was immediately appealed by commonwealth lawyers. (more)

cam, 260 words, 0 comments, Bad Governance, Speeding, Virginia, Arbitrary Enforcement

How do you know when a law is unreasonable and unjust? When an additional fine is added on to whatever punishment a judge determines in a court; when the law is made for the purposes of short-term revenue collection; when the fine is so hefty that it has to be repaid in installments; and when the initial enforcement of the infringement is arbitrary and situational. (more)