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Republicans failed again to overturn the Democrat majority in the House of Delegates, which they have ruled since after Reconstruction.
Many GOP candidates like Katzen affiliated themselves closely with Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Gilmore and his popular proposal to eliminate the personal property tax on cars and trucks. It was a strategy that paid off.
“What we’ve proven together here,” Katzen told supporters at a victory party in Warrenton, “is that Virginians
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