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only elect a new governor but also a lieutenant governor, attorney general and all 100 members of the House of Delegates.
“Our party is back to fighting on its principles,” he said. “This has been a tax cutting session and not a tax increase session, and it’s all been led by Republicans.”
He pointed to efforts by the legislature’s Republican leadership to accelerate a planned reduction in the sales tax on food and eliminate a controversial practice of collecting year-end sales taxes from certain businesses a month before they are due.
There was even a brief attempt to revive the costly car-tax phaseout, which could once again become a campaign issue eight years after it propelled the last Republican governor, Jim Gilmore, into
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