Posted on 08/04/2006 5:30:40 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
The story seems very familiar to people who follow Republican politics, but it is also out of tomorrow’s headlines: Sean Connaughton (R-at large), chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors (about as close as one gets to being a big city mayor in the Old Dominion), has recently been tapped by President Bush to be administrator of the Maritime Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Although Connaughton -- a moderate Republican and close ally of House Government Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) has yet to be confirmed by the Senate, Republicans in the county are already making preparations to nominate a successor in the special election to succeed him later this year.
Squaring off for nomination at the special county GOP convention scheduled for August 19 are County Supervisors Corey Stewart (R.-Occoquan) and Maureen Caddigan (R.-Dumfries). Although the names mean little to people outside the county, they are symbols of the ideological dynamics going on within the Virginia Republican Party: Stewart is a stalwart conservative, an opponent of spending and taxes, and is not close to the outgoing chairman. Caddigan is “the Connaughton candidate,” a fellow moderate GOPer who has marched in stepped with the chairman’s spending policies that have made him unpopular with conservatives.
“Under the current chairman, the population of Prince William County has grown 32% and the spending by government has grown 120%,” noted County Supervisor John Stirrup (R.-Gainesville), a former Reagan Administration official and Stewart’s campaign chairman, “You would not see anything approaching that under a ‘Chairman Stewart.’” Recalling Connaughton’s confrontational style with conservatives on the county board, Stirrup added that if Stewart succeeds him, “you will see a far more collegial atmosphere on the board.”
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While this is a local election, local elections are where many national figures got their start. Corey Stewart is deserving of support.
Bump!
Here is Corey Stewart's link:
http://www.coreystewart.com/
Hopefully, Corey Stewart will win going away.
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