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shutter the lieutenant governor’s Richmond office when the legislature is not in session in favor of six regional offices.
“There are already enough elected officials in Richmond,” he said. “I want to put the office out among the people where I will have a better chance of representing them once the session is over.”
Leslie Byrne, another Fairfax native, was the first woman from Virginia elected to Congress and now hopes to be the first female lieutenant governor.
Byrne, who spent four years in the state Senate before being redistricted out of her seat by the legislature’s Republican majority, is emphasizing her ability to work with Democrats and Republicans alike, citing her work in the House of Delegates in the late 1980s to make the state require large dump trucks be covered “so things don’t fly off and break your windshield.”
“I think you can use this office to bring to the fore issues the legislature has put on the back burner,” she said.
Byrne picked up a key endorsement last month from the Richmond Crusade for Voters, the state’s oldest and largest African-American voter organization, edging out the local delegate, Viola Baskerville.
Baskerville, of Richmond, likes to compare herself to the steadfast turtle in Aesop’s fable “The Hare and the Tbrtoise,” but she made waves within the party earlier this year by criticizing Kaine’s signature tax relief proposal as not going far enough.
“Any discussion of tax relief needs to be done in the context of tax reform. Then localities
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