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Longtime Northern Va. legislator Vincent F. Callahan Jr. dies at 82

By Matt Schudel September 20 at 1:52 PM

Vincent F. Callahan Jr., an influential Republican legislator who represented Fairfax County in the Virginia House of Delegates for 40 years and was a leading proponent of the interests of Northern Virginia in the state capitol, died Sept. 20 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. He was 82.

The cause was meningitis and paralysis caused by the West Nile virus, according to a statement released by his wife, Virginia Weight Callahan.

Mr. Callahans long tenure in Richmond spanned two very different eras in the commonwealths political history. When he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1967, he was one of only 14 Republicans among the 100 delegates.

By the time he retired in 2008, the Republicans were in the majority in Richmond, and Mr. Callahan had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee for almost a decade. He was the first Republican in modern history to lead the powerful committee.

After joining the Appropriations Committee in 1972, Mr. Callahan worked with members of both parties to steer funding toward Northern Virginia, helping promote the growth of George Mason University and the commercial development of the Dulles corridor.

A lot of what you see in Northern Virginia today is there because of Vince, J. Kenneth Klinge, a GOP lobbyist who had known Mr. Callahan since 1965, said Saturday in an interview. I would call him a problem-solver. In order to solve problems, you have to work with people across the aisle.

Except for an unsuccessful run for Congress in 1976, Mr. Callahan seemed content to spend his entire political career in the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly. He made the 224-mile round trip from his home in McLean to Richmond hundreds of times.

Leaders of both political parties, including Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Timothy M. Kaine (both former Democratic governors) and Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford), praised Mr. Callahans legislative acumen.

When Mr. Callahan entered the House of Delegates, Northern Virginia was a fast-growing region that was woefully underrepresented in a legislature dominated by Democrats from rural parts of the commonwealth. Nonetheless, he was able to engineer funding to support the building of Metro lines in Northern Virginia, Northern Virginia Community College, George Mason and the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.

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Trio Of Republican 2016 Hopefuls Stake Out Positions With Syria Vote – Video


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Three likely Republican White House contenders thrust the party #39;s foreign policy divide into the spotlight with their Thursday votes and comments on a measure to arm moderate Syrian rebels....

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Republicans Condemn Maine Gubernatorial Candidate for Controversial Video

TIME Living politics Republicans Condemn Maine Gubernatorial Candidate for Controversial Video The Republican party is denouncing a promotional video for candidate Mike Michaud made by a local blogger which contains lewd lyrics about Senator Susan Collins

The Maine Republican Party denounced a video promoting Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud on Friday. The soundtrack to the video, a rap song, contains the lyrics, Im the King of Maine. Ive got Susan Collins giving everyone brain, a slang reference to oral sex. (They lyrics began around the 1:58 mark in the video above.)

Michauds campaign said the candidate had no involvement with the production of the video, which was created by local blogger Alex Steed and his production company Knack Factory. We had no control over this video just like we have no control over news coverage, campaign spokesman David Farmer told the Portland Press Herald. Mike doesnt even listen to rap. The campaign said it contacted Steed as soon as it divined the meaning of the lyrics and asked him to take the video down from the Bangor Daily News site, which he did.

Steed tweeted on Friday morning confirming that Michaud had nothing to do with choosing the song.

The tweet linked to a post on Bangor Daily News that explained Steed and Knack Factory did not know the meaning of giving brain when they created the video and chose the song by Maine rapper Spose.

Later, he apologized directly to Michaud for the mistake:

Republicans nonetheless condemned Michaud, a member of Congress, for the video. It is absolutely appalling and completely inexcusable that Michael Michaud would make a video with such a vulgar reference to Susan Collins, Maine Republican Party spokeswoman Deborah Sanderson said in a statement. In his quest to win votes from a younger generation, Congressman Michaud has gone way over the line by participating in this depraved insult to Maines senior senator.

Rap and pop music has a long history of making misogynistic references to politicians. In the song Grillz, Nelly raps, Gotta bill in my mouth like Hillary Rodham. Eminem raps And Ill invite Sarah Palin out to dinner then nail her, Baby say hello to my little friend,' in We Made You. And in Beyoncs recent song, Partition, she sing, He Monica Lewinskid all on my gown.

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