{"id":1007,"date":"2004-12-08T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/08\/virginia_news_3\/"},"modified":"2004-12-08T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T17:06:34","slug":"virginia_news_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/08\/virginia_news_3\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Eavesdropping<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nAccused by even some of his friends of being too cautious, Governor Mark Warner apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A45155-2004Dec7.html\">came under attack<\/a> from within the party during the conference call that was illegally listened to by the GOP.  I doubt the Dems will release that part of the call.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Matricardi&#8217;s boss, party Chairman Gary R. Thomson, testified that Matricardi told him a Democratic senator had called Warner spineless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonder who that could be?  Nominations are now open.<\/p>\n<p>And where is the GOP going to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=RTD\/MGArticle\/RTD_BasicArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1031779563080\">the fine money<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Republican party source said the party will be able to pay the money without having a negative impact on its finances. The most recent financial report filed by the party with the State Board of Elections showed it with only $55,000 in its banking account.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Smith, spokesman for the Virginia GOP, declined to say whether the party has set up a special fund to pay the settlement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>87th Endorsement<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThe Virginian Pilot <a href=\"http:\/\/home.hamptonroads.com\/stories\/story.cfm?story=79056&#038;ran=105514\">endorses<\/a> Democrat Paula Miller in the race for the 87th district House of Delegates race.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>GOP Split<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nRoanoke delegate Preston Bryant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/columnists\/bryant\/14956.html\">obliquely responds<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsadvance.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=LNA%2FMGArticle%2FLNA_BasicArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1031779516953&#038;path=!news!archive \">criticism directed at him<\/a> during the party\u2019s recent state gathering.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Impact Fees<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nExpanding the program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2004\/122004\/12082004\/1598326\">in Stafford<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gay Protection<\/strong><\/em>Looks like Williamsburg will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vagazette.com\/news\/va-news4_120804dec08,0,6003675.story?coll=va-news\">add sexual orientation<\/a> to the list of protections afforded in it equal opportunity program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eavesdropping Accused by even some of his friends of being too cautious, Governor Mark Warner apparently came under attack from within the party during the conference call that was illegally listened to by the GOP. I doubt the Dems will release that part of the call. Matricardi&#8217;s boss, party Chairman Gary R. Thomson, testified that&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/08\/virginia_news_3\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}