Virginia Political Podcast

I talked to Danny Kedem from DK Strategies about his time working for successful Richmond mayoral candidate Danny Avula and the process of creating ads for the campaign.We talked about his job working for Avula, how to reach voters in this evolving media landscape when many people don’t use broadcast TV, tactics on spending, responding to attacks from the Roday campaign, and a lo

I talked to Nate Benforado from the Southern Environmental Law Center about his win today as the lead attorney in the case against Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the removal of Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI.We discuss what this means for Virginia, the timeline for when Virginia will reenter RGGI, what the possible appeals process will look like and more.For

This is the second episode of the Virginia Political Podcast.In this episode, I talk to Dr. Danny Avula, City Councilor Andreas Addison, Harrison Roday and Maurice Neblett about their campaigns for mayor. Former City Council Chair Michelle Mosby’s campaign did not answer my phone call to be included in the episode.An overview of the candidates:Avula Danny Avula was the director o

In this episode, I talk to Rep. Abigail Spanberger about her decision to leave Congress and her campaign for governor. She contrasts a Spanberger administration with a Sears administration, she talks about how she would support getting Virginia back into RGGI, how she thinks Youngkin has done as governor and more. I also talk to political science professor Richard Meagher about the