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After 12 years as commonwealth’s attorney, Harvey Bryant says he will leave office at the end of next year when his term expires. Bryant tells The Virginian-Pilot he will support his second-in-command, Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Colin Stolle, in the election next year. Bryant, 66, said he decided this past fall that he would retire [...]

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The fields are shrinking as nomination season approaches for the 2013 state attorney general election. Fairfax Circuit Court Clerk John T. Frey has removed his name from contention for the Republican nomination for AG, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch. The move leaves two state legislators vying for the GOP nomination: Del. Robert B. Bell, [...]

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Virginia voters decided three contested commonwealth’s attorney special elections yesterday, and all three were won by women. In two cases, male incumbents were defeated. Megan Revis Frederick defeated incumbent Paul Walther for the Culpeper County prosecutor’s job. Walther had worked in the commonwealth’s attorney’s office since 1994, reports The Free Lance-Star. The election was marked [...]

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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says local laws imposing special restrictions on temporary political signs are invalid. “Any ordinance that places heavier burdens or greater restrictions on temporary political signs than are placed on any other temporary signs is invalid,” Cuccinelli said in an official opinion letter dated June 1. The opinion was in response [...]

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Del. Rob Bell, R-Albemarle, has announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for Attorney General in 2013. He joins Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, who late last week was poised to join the race, advising supporters that he was exploring a bid. Both announcements follow Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s decision to run for governor, rather [...]

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With Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli making it official that he will run for governor in 2013 and not another term as AG, Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, has announced he is “exploring” a run for the office. The conservative blog “Bearing Drift” this morning published an advance copy of a letter that Obenshain will be mailing [...]

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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told staffers Thursday he plans to run for governor, setting up a likely primary showdown with Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling. The Washington Post obtained a copy of an email sent by Cuccinelli to members of his staff Thursday afternoon. “[A]as the rumors swirl, I find it necessary to put them [...]

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A veteran prosecutor may have to run for re-election as a write-in candidate after a judge rejected his bid for a court order to get his name on the ballot Thursday. Richmond County Circuit Judge Harry Taliaferro dissolved his temporary injunction and allowed the county registrar to report the names of qualified candidates to the [...]

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Update: (9/8/11, 3:50 p.m.) Judge Harry Taliaferro has upheld the local electoral board’s decision invalidating Wayne Emery’s petition. According to the Northern Neck News, Emery plans to file further injunctions immediately. A 16-year Virginia prosecutor could be unseated this year because his election paperwork was found to be defective after the registration deadline passed. Richmond [...]

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Virginia House Majority Leader Bill Janis, R-Glen Allen, is said to be planning a run as an independent for Henrico County commonwealth’s attorney in the wake of the Republican Party’s public rejection of its nominated candidate. WWBT references several sources who say Janis will run. GOP leaders have called on Matt Geary to quit the [...]

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