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Is the most diverse Republican ticket in Virginia history helping to force the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions by state officials? It sure seems that way.
During a ceremony Monday, speakers said West Point Cemetery was once forgotten, but the Daughters of the American Revolution have sought to spruce it up.
ANDREW CAIN
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Del. Jay Jones, D-Norfolk, charged in a Democratic primary debate Saturday night that Attorney General Mark Herring only apologized to the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus for having worn blackface as a teenager in order to salvage his political future.
During the hourlong face-off at WTVR TV 6 in Richmond, Herring asserted that Jones had proposed flawed legislation to create a civil rights office, as well as a bill that would have let âpredatory lendersâ charge customers high interest rates.
Virginia Attorney General Mark HerringÂ
Herring and Jones met in a sometimes combative debate less than a month before Democrats pick their statewide nominees in a June 8 primary.
Behind the scenes ballots: Va. GOP pick their nominees
Winsome Sears, an âunapologeticâ conservative who was the first Black Republican woman elected to the Virginia General Assembly, captured the partyâs nomination for lieutenant governor Tuesday night, outlasting former Del. Tim Hugo of Fairfax County in a fifth round of ballot counting from Saturdayâs state GOP convention.
Sears, who emigrated from Jamaica at age 6, joins Del. Jason Miyares, a Cuban American who is running for attorney general, on a GOP ticket headed by Glenn Youngkin, the partyâs nominee for governor.
Sears, 57, who served one term in the House of Delegates from 2002-2004, is seeking an achievement that is exceeding rare, if not unprecedented in modern Virginia politics â a return to elective office after an absence of 18 years.