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Lowell Feld is the founder and editor of the blog Raising Kaine, and the co-author of a forthcoming book called Netroots Rising: How a Citizen Army of Progressive Bloggers and Online Activists is Changing American Politics. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about how the Internet is having an effect.
Libertarian Arin Sime is the Democratic candidate for the 24th Senate District seat currently held by Republican Emmet Hanger. The other candidate in the race is Democrat David Cox of Lexington. In this installment of WINAGuv,!v,,us CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjnjRight Now with Coy Barefoot, Sime talks about his campaign.G,V (Photo by George Loper)
David Cox is the Democratic candidate for the 24th Senate District seat currently held by Republican Emmet Hanger. The other candidate in the race is Libertarian Arin Sime. In this installment of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot, Cox makes his case to the 24th, which covers some of western Albemarle County.
“People are not happy with Richmond ,” Cox said. “My parents and their generation left me and my generation with the best schools, the best roads, a health care system that covered far more percentage wise of the population than now.”
Richmond area Delegate Jennifer McClellan (D-71) joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about her campaign to win a second term. She is running unopposed.
Local historian and cartographer Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot to talk about what he considers Albemarle County’s most famous ghost story, the Moon Ghost, who haunted the Glendower area south of Scottsville around the time of Reconstruction.
Chris Myers Asch is one of the co-founders of the U.S. Public Service Academy, a proposed national university designed to train public servants. According to the institution’s website, the Academy will be “a flagship institution designed to build a Guv,!E”more perfect unionGuv,!Vkj by developing leaders of character dedicated to service in the public sector.” That’s the subject on this installment of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” with Coy Barefoot.
Marcia Joseph is chair of the Albemarle County Planning Commission, and the Democratic candidate for the Rivanna seat on the Board of Supervisors. She joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about her campaign to unseat Republican incumbent Ken Boyd.G,V Boyd has been invited to appear on a future program.
For complete coverage of the 2007 Board of Supervisors race, and the Charlottesville City Council race, visit Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Election Watch page for candidate interviews, video and audio of candidate forums, and
Bob Gibson, political reporter for the Daily Progress, joins Coy Barefoot every Monday on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about Virginia politics. This week starts off with a discussion of Governor Kaine’s ban on open-air fires, and continues with a plug for Bob’s recent conversation with Delegate David Toscano on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. Bob and Coy also discuss the scarcity of contested General Assembly races in the Charlottesville area, pressing of Democrats to institute bi-partisan redistricting if they gain legislative power, the three-way race in the 24th Senate, and other stories leading up to the November 6 election. There’s also special notice of WUVA’s 60th birthday.
Jesse Ferguson is the Chief of Staff for Delegate Brian Moran (D) and Shaun Kenney is Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia. They join Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about how Virginia Republicans are preparing for the election in two weeks. Will they retain their majorities in the Senate and House of Delegates? That and more on this podcast.
Brian Wheeler is the executive director of Charlottesville Tomorrow, an organization dedicated to covering local government on the issues of land use, transportation and community design. Brian is a regular guest on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about what’s happening in the area.
In this pre-election installment, Brian has updates on various transportation projects in the area such as the Hillsdale Connector and the Eastern Connector. Additionally, Charlottesville Tomorrow is covering the races for the Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors. Brian breaks down the candidates. Visit their Election Watch page for complete coverage of the races, including audio and video podcasts. In this podcast, Brian also plays clips from the City Council candidates forum recently held by the Greenbrier neighborhood association. There’s also an update on the Board of Supervisor’s recent deliberation and stalemate over rural protection ordinances, and of course, Brian has the audio.
Bob Gibson is the political reporter for the Charlottesville Daily Progress, and he joins Coy Barefoot on “WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now” to talk about the way Libertarians run their campaigns, Arin Sime’s television ads, the race for the 59th House District between Connie Brennan (D) and Watkins Abbit (I), Virginia Republicans’ decision to use a convention to select a nominee for the U.S. Senate, and the recent passing of Representative Jo Ann Davis, who represented the Tidewater area in Congress.