Blog the Vote

Jan. 29, 2007 — The Virginia State Legislature may be the oldest
statehouse in the United States, but the minority Democratic Party is using modern video technology in its latest political tactic against the Republican majority. Anger over Republicans killing bills without recording the vote, Democratic operatives began videotaping early morning and late-night statehouse proceedings and posting them on their assembly's blog and the Internet-based video site YouTube. "We're providing openness and access to Virginia government," said Mark Bergman, spokesman for the Virginia Democratic Party. Bergman argues that the videos are the only way for Virginians to see these committee proceedings because the Republican majority changed the rules in 2006 to allow off-hour committee and subcommittee votes to go unrecorded.

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