Buena Vista Labor Day Parade

Buena Vistan conventional wisdom: "It you're a candidate and you're not in Buena Vista on Labor Day, you won't win the election." Here is a photo gallery from 2004-- looks like it was a very rainy day.

Old-time Virginia politicians always said that anything in a campaign before Labor Day didn't amount to a hill of beans. That's probably not true any more; at least for fundraising, but now it's time for the Commonwealth's political season to kick into gear.