Press Highlights
Written on January 20, 2011 in News, Press Highlights
By WESLEY P. HESTER
A bipartisan coalition of legislators is seeking sweeping changes to state foreclosure laws aimed at protecting homeowners and tightening record-keeping practices.
In a rare joint appearance Monday, Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, Sen. A. Donald McEachin, D-Henrico, Del. Robin A. Abbott, D-Newport News, and Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax City held a news conference to address a package of foreclosure bills.
Perhaps the highest profile of those is Marshall’s, which would require that mortgage transfers be recorded in local land records and that investors and lenders file documents there before foreclosing.
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Read the full article at Richmond Times Dispatch
Written on January 6, 2011 in News, Press Highlights
The following is an excerpt from a recent news article about one of Delegate Bob Marshall’s bills for the 2011 General Assembly Session:
Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall — the same lawmaker who wants to ban gays and lesbians in the Virginia National Guard, despite the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell — has a new idea. Virginia should mint its own coins.
Marshall (R-13th District), a 20-year veteran, plans to introduce legislation during the Jan. 12 session of the General Assembly that would call for the Commonwealth to study minting its own coins in order to compete with what he calls “the monopoly of the Federal Reserve System,” reports InsideNova.com.
“We can’t mint money, but we can mint gold and silver coins,” Marshall told InsideNova.com Wednesday night. “It sounds like a small difference, but it is a difference legally. If you look closely on a [dollar] bill, it doesn’t say that it’s money. It says it is legal tender ‘for all debts, public and private.’”
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Read the full article at NBC News Washington.com
Written on December 2, 2010 in News, Press Highlights
Del. Bob Marshall (R-Prince William) is sponsoring a bill that would allow public employees to be terminated or otherwise disciplined if they knowingly violate public information laws.
Behind the proposed legislation, which he has filed for consideration when the General Assembly convenes next month, is the now hotly contested events surrounding the tenure of climate researcher Michael Mann at the University of Virginia.
Mann left the university in 2005 and is now a professor at Penn State University.
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Read the full article at The Washington Post.
Written on September 21, 2010 in News, Press Highlights
By Anita Kumar
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
RICHMOND — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has issued several controversial legal opinions in the past few months, concluding, for instance, that police could check the immigration status of those stopped by law-enforcement officers, that the state could impose stricter oversight of clinics that perform abortions and that local governments could allow religious holiday displays on public property.
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Read the full article at Washington Post Online.
Written on August 3, 2010 in News, Press Highlights
Virginia’s top prosecutor, after issuing a legal opinion that seemed to align his state with Arizona in the battle over local immigration enforcement, told Fox News on Monday that the two states’ policies aren’t a perfect match.
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued a legal opinion Friday saying state law enforcement officers are allowed to check the immigration status of anyone “stopped or arrested.”
“It is my opinion that Virginia law enforcement officers, including conservation officers may, like Arizona police officers, inquire into the immigration status of persons stopped or arrested,” he wrote.
But in an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, Cuccinelli underscored that in Virginia pursuing immigration offenses is up to the officers — not required, as it is under Arizona’s controversial immigration law.
“We are not mandating to our law enforcement that they make these inquiries on every stop,” Cuccinelli said, noting that Arizona’s law requires officers to check the immigration status of anyone stopped for other reasons when there is reasonable suspicion that they are in the country illegally….
…He wrote the opinion in response to a question from state Delegate Bob Marshall, who represents Prince William County.
Marshall’s county implemented a law that requires police to check the immigration status of everyone they arrest — but not everyone they come in legal contact with.
READ the FULL TEXT at FOXNEWS.COM
Written on July 29, 2009 in Press Highlights
Newspapers & Critics … Bob Marshall is:
Effective … Principled … Outspoken … Citizen Legislator … Creative … Cost Cutter … Passionate … Witty … Pro-Life … Maverick
“Del. Robert G. Marshall … led the successful fight to stop the construction of an underground walkway connecting the Capitol to the General Assembly building, where delegates and senators have their offices and committee rooms.”
- Washington Post 1-17-05
“Bob Marshall used humor to good effect … and had the crowd laughing with him.”
- Charlottesville Daily Progress, 4-19-08
“Delegate Bob Marshall … one of the last great crusaders in the General Assembly, follows his conscience, no matter how unpopular or inconvenient the results … he won a total victory in the Virginia State Supreme Court last week.”
- Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 3-4-08
“… a renegade inside the Republican Party … intelligent and thought provoking.”
- Mark Plotkin, WTOP Radio, Washington DC, 1-6-08
“… is a man of considerable intellectual ability and deeply help political principles. He is far more the idealistic citizen-legislator, than the cynical professional politician.”
- Paul Goldman, advisor, Governors Doug Wilder, and Mark Warner
“long been an opponent of higher taxes … known … for his nearly encyclopedic knowledge of the House procedural rules…”
- Fredericksburg Free Lance Star, 1-8-08
“Bob Marshall … the lone voice of reason among House Republicans. … was the only member of his delegation to vote in favor of recording subcommittee votes last week.”
- Bristol Herald Courier 1-13-08
“The General Assembly’s most outspoken and persistent abortion foe.”
- Virginia Associated Press, 1-7-08
“Marshall’s legislative creativity knows no rival in Richmond. A bill-drafting giant, he is smart, principled and owns a sizeable sense of humor.”
- Charlottesville Daily Progress, 1-18-04
