Why not make lemonade out of this lemon, and come up with a way to add plenty more black voters to the Jim Moran district and maybe get rid of this individual in exchange for a black guy to be named later?
Such a district wouldn’t stretch from Richmond to Arlington County.
Maybe black legislators would back a plan that would dump a more Republicans into, and subtract Democrats from the 11th District (currently held by Gerald Connolly, D-Fairfax)
One advantage for Republicans: Scott has to add about 64K constituents to his seat.
Disadvantages for Republicans:
Scott won in ‘10 with 70%. So he’s getting a lot of white votes too.
Wittman lost the Hampton portion of the 1st; Forbes lost Petersburg in the 4th; Cantor lost the Richmond City portion of the 7th.