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| A View from the Cheap Seats is a blog written Northern Virginia Daily staff writer Garren Shipley. Shipley has been covering Virginia politics since 2005. A native of East Tennessee, he got his first political bylines covering the statehouse in Nashville. He is a 2000 graduate of East Tennessee State University with a degree in mass communications and political science. He lives in Strasburg with his wife and two children.
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Tenth District congressional candidate William Redpath has signed the American Family Business Institute's "death tax repeal pledge."
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Rep. Frank Wolf, R-10th, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Commerce, will host a conference on exporting on Sept. 14 in Loudoun County.
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WINCHESTER -- Jeff Barnett is not a career politician, but he proudly regards himself as an accomplished "career military officer."
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FRONT ROYAL -- Rep. Frank R. Wolf, who has been assisting the town with efforts to remove the Riverton Dam, visited the more than 100-year-old structure on Friday with local officials.
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WINCHESTER -- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell breezed through Winchester on Thursday to tour the National Fruit Product Co. and take questions from workers on job training and the economy.
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WOODSTOCK -- About 75 people turned out for U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte's "America Speaking Out" town hall meeting Monday evening at the county government center.
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WOODSTOCK -- Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte will hold an "America Speaking Out" town hall meeting Monday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Shenandoah County Government Center.
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WOODSTOCK -- Shenandoah County residents can tell U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-6th, what's on their minds during a town hall meeting Monday afternoon at the Shenandoah County Government Center.
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