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VA 5th 2010: Virgil Goode: “Groups have talked to me about running” (another NY-23 in the works?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435983/posts
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Former Virginia congressman Virgil Goode said in an interview today that “a couple of groups” have asked him to run for his old seat in central and southside Virginia’s 5th Congressional District — and while he didn’t say he would, he didn’t say he wouldn’t, either.
Goode, a lawyer from Rocky Mount, said he’s paying close attention to the seven candidates seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat Tom Perriello, who unseated Goode two years ago by fewer than 1,000 votes. Goode said his hope is that Republicans will nominate a candidate “who shares most of my beliefs and my ideals.”
Goode demurred when asked whether that description describes Robert Hurt, the state senator from Chatham who enjoys the backing of a number of state and national Republicans but is not viewed as sufficiently conservative by local Tea Party organizers. Conservative activists are also rankled that party leaders have anointed Hurt without regard to the views of local Republicans. (Last week, House Minority Whip Eric I. Cantor disclosed that he had given Hurt $7,000 from his leadership and campaign committees.)