Tag: Justin Fairfax

Earlier this afternoon, Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidates Tom Perriello and Ralph Northam spoke to a packed house of Arlington Dems at Mad Rose Tavern...

Speakers in the following video (great job by David Martin - thanks for recording this!) from the "Save Our Healthcare" rally earlier today in...

Courtesy of Stephanie Clifford, here's video of the three excellent Democrats (Justin Fairfax, Gene Rossi, Susan Platt) running for Lt. Governor of Virginia in...

I can't say I saw this one coming...was thinking more that a woman would enter the Democratic race for LG (and maybe one will...

Verrrry interesting; leaves just two Democratic candidates for Virginia LG in 2017 at the moment -- Justin Fairfax and Gene Rossi. The question is,...

This Election Eve predictions edition of the "Inside Scoop" show with guest Ben "Not Larry Sabato" Tribbett being interviewed by host Catherine Read seems...

While most of us are focused intensely on the 2016 presidential race, as well as on crucial House races like LuAnn Bennett vs. Barbara...

I'll update these numbers as they come out. Also see VPAP. By the way, most of the numbers here are for money raised for...

by Lauren Victoria Burke I wasn't paying attention to Virginia's Democratic Party Convention much until learning at about noon yesterday that there was a controversy...

In the past, in our various iterations ("Raising Kaine," "RK," "Blue Commonwealth," "Blue Virginia"), we've made group blog endorsements of Democratic candidates in contested primaries. Sometimes those are unanimous. Sometimes it's been a big majority in favor of one candidate or the other. And sometimes, it's been more evenly split, or perhaps just a small majority, and/or a highly contentious/divisive process, in which cases we don't make an endorsement. That's just some context to today's Blue Virginia endorsement of Mark Herring, which was strong, unanimous, and completely without division or contention of any kind. Bottom line: on this one, there wasn't even any back and forth, as there often is, but a crystal clear choice: Mark Herring for Attorney General of Virginia.

We will explain our decision in a minute, but first a note about the LG race. In discussions among the Blue Virginia front pagers, we found majority support for Aneesh Chopra, but we also found one person not comfortable making an endorsement in that race, and a couple (e.g., Teddy Goodson) supporting Ralph Northam. Given that, we've decided not to make a Blue Virginia group endorsement in the LG race. Individual members of the "front page" have endorsed Aneesh Chopra separately, including Elaine in Roanoke and Lowell Feld's (full disclosure: Lowell has been consulting to the Herring campaign on social media since January 2013; both Herring and his opponent have run paid ads on this site; nobody else on the Blue Virginia editorial board is consulting to Mark Herring).

Now, back to our unanimous endorsement of Mark Herring. First off, we refer you to the Blue Virginia interview with Herring, as well as to Lowell's endorsement of Herring back in January. The interview discusses Herring's background and experience, his reasons for running, his vision for the AG's office, as well as his positions on a number of issues (e.g., pro-choice, pro-LGBT equality, pro-environment, pro-science, pro-consumer protection). For its part, the endorsement lays out the positive argument for Herring in detail, and we recommend that you read it. Also, see below for why we believe every Virginia Democrat and progressive should enthusiastically, and proudly, cast their vote for Mark Herring on Tuesday.