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Oct. 11 in Page County, he mentioned the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, which receives $1 million in state funding, as an example of funds that should be cut to make up for the budget deficit.

Obenshain knows that Roles is running for his senate seat because of his criticism of Gemeinschaft, a rehabilitation community for drug and alcohol abusers in Harrisonburg.

In January, he said the halfway house posed a danger to schoolchildren and law-abiding residents of Harrisonburg and should be shut down. Gemeinschaft did not close, but he succeeded in gaining more oversight power for localities that have such rehabilitation facilities.

“I believe the Department of Corrections has abused the rehab communities in Virginia,’* he told the Rappahannock News.

Some offenders at Gemeinschaft have not finished their sentences, he said. Residents of the halfway house were also being sent from around the state to a facility that was built for

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