Jeff E. Schapiro, one of Virginia’s foremost political reporters and columnists, will speak to the Lake of the Woods Democratic Club Oct. 18 about his assessment of Virginia politics just weeks before Election Day.
The meeting will be at 1:30 p.m. in the lower level of the LOW Clubhouse. Guests are welcome, without regard to political affiliation.
Mr. Schapiro, a writer for The Richmond Times-Dispatch, has covered Virginia elections and the state Capitol for 30 years. His column appears Sundays in the Times-Dispatch’s print edition and his video column appears Thursdays on the paper’s Web site, TimesDispatch.com.
The columnist can be heard on Friday at 8:33 a.m. on Richmond’s Public Radio Station WCVE, 88.9 FM. Twitter users can follow his tweets at @RTDSchapiro.
Mr. Schapiro also contributes to the British newsmagazine, The Economist, writing on Southern politics and culture.
A native of New York City, he was graduated from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in history.
In June of this year, three former Virginia governors, the speaker of the House of Delegates and an Associated Press reporter participated in a roast of Mr. Schapiro as part of a fundraiser for the Virginia Public Access Project.
On that occasion, emcee Page Melton Ivie said Mr. Schapiro had “prowled the passages of the powerful, mined the murky of the minions and scoured the sewers of the salons.”