to GOP, rather than Dem. He proven that he's a greedy man, only interested in his own well being. Screw the people of Virginia. Vote this guy OUT. He's a poor excuse for a representative.

In some countries, suicide used to be a capital crime...

Isn't that still a conspiracy?

There eere two parts to this.

The questionable aspects are the timing and the implicit quid-pro-quo of the tobacco commission job.

The judgeship was really a choice that we forced on him. His daughter has been voted on by the House twice (overwhelmingly successful) and has even been doing the job on an interim basis... but the state senate (that we control) has a policy against approving family of active members.

We controlled that body and could have changed the rule or made an exception... so we're explicitly telling him "it's either you or her" and forcing him to pick.

The fact that it went through the House again (after the Senate once refused to approve her) implies that this was no sudden decision. The fact that he timed it to hurt the party so badly implies that there's bad blood between him and party leadership.

On edit - this has been in the works for months now. Here's an article that sheds some light on the situation (and proves a couple of my assumptions to be incorrect):
http://www.roanoke.com/news/politics/article_228f8de6-8d3f-11e3-b10a-0017a43b2370.html

Hospitals received funding for ER visits.

The rural emergency room law isn't nearly enough to cover the uninsured that ERs are required to treat. Much of those costs get passed onto other patients.

In a presser the Gov. said that some hospitals were barely holding on. He said that expansion would save them.