Category: Virginia

The Center for Competitive Politics’ Sean Parnell wrote this letter to the editor of The Post in response to this earlier article on Virginia’s campaign finance laws (and the lack thereof).

This Richmond Times-Dispatch article reports that Gov. Kaine praised Speaker Howell’s decision to refer an ethics matter to an investigative panel. What [Del. Phillip] Hamilton did was “way, way, way over the line,” Kaine said, referring to Hamilton’s securing of a budget amendment to fund a teaching center at Old Dominion University after the delegate […]

The Post reports on the state of play for campaign finance in Virginia. Virginia is one of only six states that impose no limits on donations, a system that has resulted, critics charge, in increasingly expensive campaigns and candidates who must cater to wealthy donors.