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Current Issue
It’s a newsworthy time to be a citizen of the Commonwealth! Enjoy the Winter issue of Virginia Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine as we cover the issues of the day, big and small. In this issue we focus on Lacey Putney, Our Gentleman of Virginia.
1. In our VCC July 1997 interview, you were the most senior member and the only independent. What makes you keep your independent label today?
Good question. Going back a little bit beyond that. The Democrat Party moved too far to the left especially at the Federal level and the last time I voted for a Democrat was Senator Harry Byrd, Sr. The only election that fall was our U.S. Senate and our sixth congressional district. Our Congressman Dick Poff, who was elected on Eisenhower’s coattails. Prior to that, the sixth district, which is now split, was very, very strongly Democrat. A gentleman from Roanoke ran as a democrat. A little bit more liberal than I thought we needed. So I called the attorney general and asked if I vote democrat in all the elections in which I participate am I eligible to run in the primary next year and he said yes. So I voted for Senator Byrd and I didn’t participate in that congressional. I knew it was going to be a blowout anyway. As an aside, the guy who ran against Dick Poff, came down from Roanoke, was a former councilman, I think, and was campaigning on Bridge Street in Bedford with a yellow sport coat, green slacks and funny color shoes and he did about as well as I thought he would. Read more about Delegate Lacey Putney here….
Also in this Issue
The Winter 2012 issue of the VCCQM contains wonderful articles related to Richmond and the expansive Commonwealth. The article below is a great example of the quality of VCCQM. By clicking on the "Read More >>" link below you will open the entire article in pdf format.
On the day my wife, Carolyn, and I visited Independence Hall with one of our grandsons, our guide shared a story I will never forget—and it is a story that has particular relevance today.
She told us that in September of 1787, on the final day of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, eighty-one-year-old Benjamin Franklin is said to have wept when he signed the document.
James Madison, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson describing the scene at that historic gathering, wrote: “Whilst the last members were signing it, Dr. Franklin motions toward the president’s chair (George Washington), at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, [and] observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.”? Read More >>