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By Laura Vozzella, Published: June 12 E-mail the writer
RICHMOND — Virginia Democrats’ newly minted statewide ticket appeared together for
the first time Wednesday, with candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney
general portraying themselves as mainstream alternatives to the Republicans’ “tea party
ticket.”
State Sen. Ralph S. Northam (Norfolk), the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor, and
state Sen. Mark R. Herring (Loudoun), its choice for attorney general, appeared on a
Richmond theater stage with gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, a former chair of the
Democratic National Committee.
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“Our party is as unified as it has ever been,”
McAuliffe, who ran unopposed, told a crowd
of about 125 people who gathered at the
Hippodrome Theater.
The event came one day after Democratic
primary voters chose Northam and Herring
over former U.S. chief technology officer
Aneesh Chopra and former federal
prosecutor Justin Fairfax. Chopra and
Fairfax appeared onstage with the ticket and
announced that they would serve as cochairs of the party’s coordinated campaign.
The scene was in stark contrast to what
played out for Republicans last month when
they assembled a statewide ticket that gave
party insiders a jolt. At the party
convention, Chesapeake minister E.W.
Jackson beat a field of six better-known,
better-funded candidates for the GOP
nomination for lieutenant governor. After
that upset came a string of reports about
controversial statements Jackson had made,
including some condemning gays and
linking yoga with Satan.
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Where Republican convention-goers chose a
fiery political outsider to run with
gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli II and
attorney general hopeful Mark D.
Obenshain, Democrat primary voters picked
two well-known and relatively laid-back
state senators as McAuliffe’s running mates.
Northam and Herring could bring to the
ticket the heft of legislative experience —
something that McAuliffe, who has never
held elective office, lacks. Mild-mannered
deskmates in the Senate chamber, Northam
and Herring are not expected to shake up
the race with the sort of rhetoric that
Jackson has offered.
What remains to be seen is whether they can sufficiently stir the passions of the Democratic
base to get them to the polls in November. Political observers have wondered the same
about McAuliffe, who finished second in the Democratic primary for governor four years
ago. Neither of his two running mates supported him in that bid.
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The Republican ticket, meanwhile, has impassioned support among the GOP activists who
typically turn out in off-year elections. Cuccinelli, the current attorney general, has
endeared himself to the tea party with legal battles against the federal government.
Obenshain, a state senator from Harrisonburg, has stood with Cuccinelli in those fights.
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At the polls Tuesday, many primary voters said they could have been happy with any of the
Democrats who were running for lieutenant governor and attorney general.
“I could have flipped a coin,” David Karp, a 63-year-old lawyer, said after casting his ballot
in suburban Richmond swing territory.
Some Democrats, while content with their ticket, were more passionate about defeating the
Republicans.
“I would rather have that stop sign than Cuccinelli as governor,” said Ryan Shannon, 27, a
Henrico County lawyer, motioning to a sign in the parking lot at his polling place.
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Democrats made it clear at their gathering Wednesday that they will try to link Cuccinelli
and Obenshain to some of Jackson’s more controversial statements.
“We’ve heard a lot about the rhetoric,” said Herring, a lawyer who has been in the Senate
since 2006. “Well, Mark Obenshain votes like E.W. Jackson talks.”
Northam, a pediatric neurologist who has been in the Senate since 2008, said Republicans’
positions on social issues threaten the state’s economic well-being.
“This state, in order to have business, in order to welcome people, we need to be all
inclusive,” Northam said. “That starts with stopping the attack on women. Discrimination
against the LGBT community needs to stop.”
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Dave Rexrode, Cuccinelli’s campaign manager, said the Democratic ticket was the one
beholden to ideology.
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“Whether it’s their support for ObamaCare and billions in tax hikes, hostility to Virginia coal
and offshore oil exploration, or openness to altering the Commonwealth’s right-to-work
status, there’s no question that the 2013 Democrat ticket will be among the most liberal in
Virginia history,” he said in a statement. “If elected, all three candidates will seek to advance
ideologically driven, Washington, DC policies that will only exacerbate the uncertainty felt
by so many job creators across the Commonwealth.”
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Probably @ravens because that is about the sum of what they know about VA politics ! There's no nut
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