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offenders from the Shenandoah Valley. “We shouldn’t be a destination for the nation’s drug offenders,” he said.
Obenshain believes Virginia’s abolition of parole has been a good thing for the commonwealth and that drug dealers need to be punished. And that is where the senator says he and Roles disagree most sharply.
“Our views on criminal justice are the most significant difference,” Obenshain told the Rappahannock News. “Fm for responsibility.... Maxine believes nonviolent offenders deserve a break and she wants to reinstate parole.”
Aside from politics, Obenshain is one of the founders of the Harrisonburg- and Charlottesville-based law firm of Lenhart Obenshain PC. For 20 years, he has practiced law in Harrisonburg and other parts of central Virginia.
His father, Richard D. Obenshain, was the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia from 1972 to 1976, when he was appointed cochairman of the Republican National Committee. In the
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