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Creigh Deeds: As Son Stabbed Me, I Told Him I Loved Him

Talks about son Gus' struggle with mental illness with Anderson Cooper

(Newser) - Creigh Deeds saw his son walking across the yard toward him as he fed the animals in the family barn last November. "Hey bud, how'd you sleep?" Deeds said, waving. But just moments later, "I turned my back, and I took it twice in the back" as...

Creigh Deeds Introduces Mental Health Bills

7 weeks after son stabbed him, killed self

(Newser) - Seven weeks after Gus Deeds stabbed father Creigh and then fatally shot himself, the Virginia state senator has introduced three bills intended to improve the state's mental health system. On Nov. 18, Gus Deeds was released from an emergency custody order for a mental health evaluation, because no psychiatric...

Stabbed Va. Senator: I Survived 'for a Reason'

Creigh Deeds blames Community Services Board in attack

(Newser) - Creigh Deeds , released from the hospital, is speaking out after his son stabbed him before committing suicide . "I am alive for a reason, and I will work for change," Deeds tells the Recorder newspaper, via the Richmond Times-Dispatch . "I owe that to my precious son."...

Virginia Investigates: Why Was Deeds Son Released?

Reports bubble up that hospitals with beds available were not contacted

(Newser) - Just 13 hours before stabbing his father and then killing himself, Gus Deeds was released from an emergency custody order after just a few hours—because no psychiatric bed could be found in order to hold him for up to 48 hours. Now Virginia has launched an inquiry into the...

Western Virginia Had No Hospital Bed for Deeds' Son

Friends recall Gus Deeds as exuberant, not troubled

(Newser) - Virginia State Police are still attempting to piece together exactly what happened at state Sen. Creigh Deeds' residence yesterday, but have confirmed that they "are looking at this as an attempted murder and suicide." The Times-Dispatch elaborates on its report on the mental health evaluation son Gus Deeds...

Deeds' Son Underwent Mental Health Eval Yesterday
Deeds' Son Underwent
Mental Health Eval Yesterday
says source
Nov 19, 2013 12:55 PM CST

Deeds' Son Underwent Mental Health Eval Yesterday

Source says an emergency custody order was issued for Gus Deeds

(Newser) - We still don't know much about what happened inside Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds' home today, but the Times-Dispatch has some insight into the mental state of his 24-year-old son, who died from a gunshot wound this morning: It reports by way of a source that Gus Deeds yesterday...

Va. Senator Stabbed Multiple Times; Son Dead

Creigh Deeds airlifted after 'assault' at his home

(Newser) - Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds is in critical condition after being stabbed in what state police are calling an "assault" at his rural home early this morning—with Democratic sources telling NBC Washington that his son, Gus, was the one who stabbed his father before turning a gun on...

Tuesday Proves Obama Victory Was a Fluke
Tuesday Proves Obama Victory Was a Fluke
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
Nov 6, 2009 7:37 AM CST

Tuesday Proves Obama Victory Was a Fluke

Reports of a great liberal realignment are greatly exaggerated

(Newser) - The outcome of Tuesday's elections dispel the myth of a great political re-alignment supposedly heralded by the election of Barack Obama last year, writes Charles Krauthammer . Believers swore young and minority voters would establish a new liberal majority and bury the GOP. But Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey...

Voters Now a Rampaging Herd

 Voters Now a Rampaging Herd  
Daniel Henninger
Nov 5, 2009 8:41 AM CST

Voters Now a Rampaging Herd

Get ready for a permanent tea party as voters seek leaders

(Newser) - In the GOP upsets in Virginia and New Jersey, Daniel Henninger doesn't just see Obama backlash, he sees a voter rebellion from both parties, with independent Americans behaving like stampeding cattle. That independents would within one year swing from Obama enthusiasts to backing decent-to-weak Republicans in Virginia and New Jersey...

Blame Weak Candidates, Not Obama
 Blame Weak 
 Candidates, 
 Not Obama 
Nate Silver
Nov 4, 2009 8:36 AM CST

Blame Weak Candidates, Not Obama

Polling guru gives a post-mortem on last night's elections

(Newser) - The numbers are in, now it's time to make sense of them. Nate Silver breaks down last night's election results:
  • Don’t blame Obama; Creigh Deeds and Jon Corzine were probably just weak candidates. In New Jersey, 57% of voters approved of Obama, but 27% of those supporters voted Republican
...

Sorry, Dems, 2008 Is So Last Year
 Sorry, Dems, 
 2008 Is So Last Year 
Analysis
Nov 4, 2009 7:45 AM CST

Sorry, Dems, 2008 Is So Last Year

Winning coalition doesn't reemerge in gubernatorial races

(Newser) - Last night’s gubernatorial defeats proved to Democrats that whatever magic they harnessed last November has left the building. Off-year elections aren’t usually great predictors, but with the Democrats’ winning 2008 coalition essentially absent, the warning signs are clear, writes Dan Balz in the Washington Post. Most notably, Democrats...

Obama Can't Save Democrats
 Obama Can't Save Democrats 
ANALYSIS
Nov 4, 2009 4:17 AM CST

Obama Can't Save Democrats

NJ, Va. votes show that president's popularity isn't catching

(Newser) - The message to Democratic candidates from yesterday's GOP wins in New Jersey and Virginia should be loud and clear: they're on their own, writes Dan McLaughlin . Jon Corzine and Creigh Deeds tied themselves as closely to possible to President Obama and lost, demonstrating that the president's continued personal popularity isn't...

Obama Is Minimal Factor in NJ, Va., Exit Polls Show
Obama Is Minimal Factor in NJ, Va., Exit Polls Show
ELECTION DAY
Nov 3, 2009 8:17 PM CST

Obama Is Minimal Factor in NJ, Va., Exit Polls Show

Majorities say president has no influence on vote

(Newser) - President Obama seems to have been a minimal factor in gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, at least according to early exit polls. In Virginia, where Republican Bob McDonnell won, 55% said Obama wasn’t behind their vote; that figure was 60% in New Jersey, where the race was...

GOP's McDonnell Elected Va. Governor
 GOP's McDonnell 
 Elected Va. Governor 
ELECTION DAY
Nov 3, 2009 7:13 PM CST

GOP's McDonnell Elected Va. Governor

Democrat Deeds loses in landslide as GOP takes top jobs

(Newser) - Republicans wrested political control of Virginia from the Democrats today, with Bob McDonnell scoring a landslide victory over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds. Independent voters swung behind the GOP, a troubling sign for President Obama, who had personally campaigned for Deeds.

Robo-Palin Gets Into Va. Gov's Race
 Robo-Palin Gets Into 
 Va. Gov's Race 
election 2009
Nov 2, 2009 2:20 PM CST

Robo-Palin Gets Into Va. Gov's Race

We didn't know about robocalls: McDonnell campaign

(Newser) - Virginia voters are getting recorded advice from Sarah Palin on how to vote in tomorrow’s gubernatorial election. The former Alaska governor’s robocall doesn’t mention GOP candidate Bob McDonnell by name—he’s been loath to accept support from the polarizing figure—but the message appears clear, CNN...

Obama Backlash Will Wallop Dem Candidates Next Week

GOP's chances looking good in Gov races as fallout builds

(Newser) - America's dissatisfaction with Democratic rule just 9 months into the Obama presidency will be crystal clear after next week's elections, writes Karl Rove . Republican Attorney General Bob McDonnell looks set to defeat Democrat Creigh Deeds in Virginia's gubernatorial race on the back of anti-Washington, anti-Obama sentiment, Rove notes in the...

Deeds Has No Shot in Virginia Governor's Race
Deeds Has No Shot in
Virginia Governor's Race
Nate Silver
Oct 28, 2009 3:44 PM CDT

Deeds Has No Shot in Virginia Governor's Race

GOP turnout likely to steamroll Democratic candidate

(Newser) - Democrat Creigh Deeds has “virtually no chance” in the Virginia governor's race next week against Republican Bob McDonnell, writes Nate Silver. Polls not only have McDonnell up 11 points or so, they show that Republicans are more likely to turn out despite being outnumbered among registered voters. In other...

Dems Still Using Bush as Bogeyman

(Newser) - George W. Bush has been out of office for 6 months now, but you wouldn’t know it to listen to Democrats on the campaign trail. “America doesn’t need to be Bushwhacked again!” declared Jon Corzine, kicking off his re-election campaign to govern New Jersey (with Joe...

Va. Primary Upset Shows 'Google Blasting' Works
Va. Primary Upset Shows 'Google Blasting' Works
ANALYSIS
Jun 12, 2009 12:30 PM CDT

Va. Primary Upset Shows 'Google Blasting' Works

(Newser) - Creigh Deeds owes a debt to Google after his surprising come-from-behind win in this week's Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary. Starting the day before the election, Derek Thompson writes for the Atlantic, Deeds’ campaign employed “Google Blasting, an eleventh-hour strategy to blanket Google-affiliated webpages in an area with a single...

State Sen. Routs Clinton Pal McAuliffe in Virginia

(Newser) - The country lawyer has trumped his better-known foes in Virginia's Democratic primary for governor, reports the Washington Post. State Sen. Creigh Deeds easily defeated former Clinton insider Terry McAuliffe and former legislative colleague Brian Moran. Deeds will now face Republican Robert F. McDonnell, a conservative with ties to Pat Robertson,...

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