Romney, Gillespie to appear at Bolling’s ‘Burgers with Bill’ event
GLEN ALLEN — Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney returns to the Richmond area this evening to join former Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ed Gillespie for...
View ArticleBill Bolling: It’s time for party registration in Virginia
What do Republicans in Virginia and Mississippi have in common? No, this is not a joke, it’s a serious question. The answer? Both states recently had high-visibility Republican primaries, but the...
View ArticleBolling calls for redistricting reform
NEWPORT NEWS — Virginia’s badly gerrymandered congressional and legislative districts are poisoning our politics and leading the state toward a Washington-style gridlock, former Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling...
View ArticleBolling: Mitt Romney was right
A recent CNN poll indicated that if the 2012 presidential election were held today, Mitt Romney would defeat President Barack Obama by a comfortable margin of 53 percent to 44 percent. That’s a...
View ArticleMcAuliffe unveils ethics panel to restore public trust after McDonnell...
RICHMOND — Gov. Terry McAuliffe established a commission Thursday with a broad mandate to erase the stain of the McDonnell scandal with “an enduring culture of integrity.” The 10-person Commission to...
View ArticleToday’s Top Opinion: Good move on ethics reform
Gov. Terry McAuliffe made a smart move by announcing a new commission to focus on ethics and redistricting. He also wisely appointed two Virginia statesmen, Republican Bill Bolling and Democrat Rick...
View ArticleRestoring Virginians’ trust in government
Rick Boucher, a Democrat, represented Virginia’s 9th Congressional District in the House from 1983 to 2011. Bill Bolling, a Republican, was lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2014 and a state...
View ArticleMcAuliffe’s ethics panel discusses possible reforms
A 10-member gubernatorial committee on Monday began the daunting and delicate task of formulating proposals aimed at reforming Virginia’s lax gift and ethics rules for public officials. The task before...
View ArticleBolling: Gillespie shows the way forward
The results of Election Day 2014 hold some important lessons for Virginia Republicans. The question is: Will the GOP learn them? First, the bad news. In the commonwealth’s only statewide campaign,...
View ArticleEthics panel recommends changes on gift, disclosure, conflict rules
The ethics commission appointed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Friday advanced a series of recommendations that would significantly tighten Virginia’s notoriously lax laws covering gifts, accountability...
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