{"id":998,"date":"2004-12-13T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/13\/virginia_news_l_1\/"},"modified":"2004-12-13T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:38:00","slug":"virginia_news_l_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/13\/virginia_news_l_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia News: Leadership PAC Backs Dem in Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t clear to me <a href=\"http:\/\/home.hamptonroads.com\/stories\/story.cfm?story=79229&#038;ran=140035\">until now<\/a> who the new $1 million PAC Leadership for Virginia would be backing.  News coverage had talked only about moderate Republicans.  But the PAC has announced the first candidate donation: $50,000 to Democrat Paula Miller in the 87th district special election tomorrow, whereas two-thirds of her opponent\u2019s money has come from other GOP politicians.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The PAC&#8217;s co-chairs are former Republican Del. Anne &#8220;Panny&#8221; Rhodes and James Hazel, a Republican who was a policy adviser to Gov. Warner. Among its major contributors is Frank Batten , chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors for Landmark Communications, which publishes The Virginian-Pilot. He donated $50,000 to the PAC, but did not have any say in its endorsement of Miller, said Patricia Hale, the executive director. Hale, a former Republican state senator in Washington, said her group is backing Miller because she &#8220;is focused on the future of our state. She wants the state to be economically strong.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t clear to me until now who the new $1 million PAC Leadership for Virginia would be backing. News coverage had talked only about moderate Republicans. But the PAC has announced the first candidate donation: $50,000 to Democrat Paula Miller in the 87th district special election tomorrow, whereas two-thirds of her opponent\u2019s money has&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/13\/virginia_news_l_1\/\">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\/998"}],"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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}