Politics:

Campaign financing scandal alert! The Bob McDonnell campaign has been getting huge donations from the RLSC. The RLSC is not revealing who, in turn, it's own doners are until well after the Virginia Election is over. This violates the intent, if not the letter of Virginia's laws requiring full and solid disclosures of all contributions over $100. So what is Bob McDonnell hiding?

Waldo Jaquith has an excellent and detailed investigation reported here. As of today, candidate McDonnell has reported nothing about who these mystery contributers are, and his campaign site is full of lies about candidate Creigh Deeds, who has an excellent record working to strengthen our laws agaist offenders of all types. Mr Deeds's own campaign site has an appeal to the McDonnell campaign to abide by the intent of Virginia's laws and show us where the money is coming from here. Who's contributions are so tainted that McDonnell does not want us to know who is contributing until after the election?

More importantly, how important is it to Virginian voters that their next Attorney General actually abide by the laws he or she is supposed to enforce? I guess we'll find out November 8th.