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weekend is the time-honored opening gun for the political races in the state. To be sure, many of the candidates have been running for months, and in the case of the statewide hopefuls, for years.
But the unofficial kickoff is Labor Day, and its principal events are the parades and speeches in Buena Vista and Covington. There are, of course, scores of similar festivities held across the Commonwealth, notably in Christiansburg, Lexington and Fredericksburg, to name a few.
But according to those who
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