Press Releases
 | McDonnell Calls on Democrats to Support Offshore Drilling |
 | Bob McDonnell, Republican gubernatorial candidate and former Attorney General of Virginia, today asked the three Democratic candidates for Governor to join him in requesting that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar reject Governor Tim Kaine's recent errant request to further delay the sale of a lease for exploration and development of energy resources off the Virginia coast. |
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| Stark Differences |
 | Democrats are working hand-in-glove with union interests to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, better known as card check. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling has condemned card check as "horrendous," which it certainly is. The other day, GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell also spoke out forcefully against the measure. |
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| McDonnell takes lead in early poll |
 | Attorney General Bob McDonnell, the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2009 gubernatorial election, is running ahead of all three Democratic candidates in that race, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Thursday. |
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| Virginia Campaign Hires Gillespie |
 | Ed Gillespie, the former Republican National Committee chairman and White House counselor to President George W. Bush, has a role in Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell's campaign for Virginia governor, underscoring the national importance of the race. |
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| Bob McDonnell Announces Intention to Step Down as AG |
 | Attorney General Bob McDonnell announced this morning that he will resign as Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia effective February 20th. The Attorney General is resigning as he begins his campaign for Governor in earnest. Since 1985 every Attorney General running for Governor, both Democratic and Republican, has stepped down from the position in order to ensure that taxpayers have a full-time Attorney General running the Commonwealth’s law firm, and that the Office is free from politics during a campaign year. |
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