We’re wrapping up the political endorsements today and quickly covering all three major statewide offices at once.<\/p>\n
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This year’s local political races have been significantly more interesting than the statewide races. In our opinion, there’s a distinct difference to each of the candidates and each race seems to have a clear choice.<\/p>\n
Governor: We feel Bob McDonnell is the better candidate of the two running for the office. McDonnell has promised to have either himself or LG Bolling visit Southside every month, and his proposal to lower the number-of-jobs threshold to qualify for tax incentives in “economically distressed” areas will help out the regional economy.<\/p>\n
Lieutenant Governor: Bill Bolling is the clear choice over Jody Wagner. Wagner has ignored the Southside region and her campaign (and identity) is a mystery to a majority of voters in this region. Wagner’s campaign has gone negative in the past month with things like a cartoon cigar-smoking Bolling controlling the health-care industry. That’s ridiculous and so is Wagner.<\/p>\n
Attorney General: Ken Cuccinelli is our choice in this race, and our mind on this race was made up when his opponent continually tried to make it seem that the position of the Attorney General was the chief prosecutor of Virginia. When Steve Shannon kept running ads touting his experience as a prosecutor and saying he was tough on child pornography, we wondered if he realized that the Attorney General’s job was to be an impartial lawyer that writes legal opinions for the state. Mass hysteria has been created by people who believe that Cuccinelli will purge the AG’s office of anybody that’s gay. Ridiculous, and Cuccinelli wins by default. Cuccinelli will make a good AG and all of this false negativity against him has only helped his cause.<\/p>\n
SouthsideCentral believes that Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli will do great jobs in their respective offices and we encourage our readers to cast their votes for them on Tuesday, November 3rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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