A panel of party insiders, reporters and pundits will gather next week at the University of Virginia to discuss the 2008 presidential, senatorial and congressional elections.

Cindy Sheehan, a peace activist and candidate for Congress in California’s 8th District, will speak at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel on May 22.

Virginia, once the mother of presidents, is now the proud parent of a boatload of political figures who insist there is “no higher honor” than serving as governor.
Virginia also is the only state remaining with a one-term-and-gone governorship, perhaps to en-courage the long line of would-be governors who seek to occupy the two statewide governor-in-waiting positions.