The club’s steering committee will meet at the home of Libby Kridler, 114 Greenspring Road.
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Month: October 2012
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October meeting
Jeff E. Schapiro, political reporter and columnist for The Richmond Times-Dispatch, will speak to the club on the status of the Virginia electorate just two weeks before Election Day.
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Top political observer to address club
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.”
Have you noticed that Obama-Biden yard signs are springing up on front lawns all over Lake of the Woods?
If you don’t have yours yet, contact Kerry Sipe at 972-2737 to arrange to pick one up. They’re free as long as current supplies last.
LOW regulations say that yard signs may be displayed six weeks prior to an election and up until the day after an election. You’re entitled to one sign per candidate, so pick up a sign for Tim Kaine and Wayne Powell while you’re at it.
(Update: Demand has been so great that we’ve temporarily run out of Kaine signs. The campaign says more may be available in a few days. Sorry.)