-
By Dan Roth on January 24, 2013, 10:59am
The Colbert Report gave Senate Republicans his "Alpha Dog of the Week" award for taking advantage of the fact that civil rights icon and Democratic Senator Henry Marsh was attending President Obama's Inauguration on Martin Luther King Day to draw new maps that would disenfranchise Democratic voters in the state.
-
By Dan Roth on January 22, 2013, 5:12pm
Virginia's Republican Governor Bob McDonnell is desperately hoping that everyone forgets that Senate Republicans took advantage of one of their colleagues attending the Presidential Inauguration to sneak through a plan to disenfranchise Democrats.
-
By Dan Roth on January 22, 2013, 1:56pm
It all began on an historic day. Yesterday marked the federal holiday to commemorate the birth and life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In Washington, DC hundreds of thousands of Americans turned out to celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Obama—our nation’s first African American President. One of those in attendance was Virginia state Senator Henry Marsh, "a major force in Virginia’s Civil Rights movement in the ‘60’s and '70s” who also served as the first African American Mayor of Richmond.
