Virginia Tea Party Patriots

There are two bills (SB 9 and HB901)in the VA General Assembly this session that propose to strengthen the current VA seat beat laws. Currently, Virginia seat belt law is a secondary offense, meaning you can only be ticketed if you are stopped in relation to another violation. The proposed bills would make the [...]

Tomorrow the full senate will vote on the Health Care Freedom Act. If it passes out of the Senate tomorrow this will be huge. Last minute calls to Democrat Senator’s Colgan and Puckett are encouraged. If we keep their votes this will happen!
Today the the parallel bill in the House (HB10) was [...]

I thought Governor McDonnell’s speech was smart! Delivering the speech in front of a live audience in one of the chambers of the Virginia legislature was very smart. Having worked in the music business for most of my life I can tell you that speaking to a live audience is always easier than trying to [...]

SB 417 was place on the calendar today under First Reading, Regular Calendar, meaning it was reported from a committee with at least one dissenting vote. Nothing happened to the bill.
The bill should be placed on the calendar Thursday under Second Reading, Regular Calendar. Nothing should happen to it. It should then [...]

The Virginia Health Care Freedom Act(SB 417), and two other identical bills SB311 and SB283, were voted on, yesterday, in the Senate Commerce & Trade Committee and passed with a 8 – 7 vote. This happened exactly one week after 2400 patriot and tea party members showed up for a 10th amendment lobby day and [...]

From Tertium Quids, Krystal Slivinski:
SB 417, a bill that protects Virginia residents from being forced to purchase healthcare coverage, PASSED the Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor, 8-7. THIS IS BIG. Senators Colgan and Puckett crossed party lines to vote for this bill. No one in the room expected the bill [...]

After last friday’s Tea Party GOP debate a informal straw poll was taken and posted on the Virginia Fifth Watchdog website. Here are the results:
A straw poll was given at the debate. All 7 candidates were listed in this poll. One write-in was added by 4 people 149 Ballots were turned in. 3 contained [...]