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[VA-11] Connolly enters race for Davis’s Virginia seat
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| News Date | Thursday, February 7, 2008 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Aaron Blake
Posted: 02/07/08 06:31 PM [ET]
Fairfax County Board Chairman Gerry Connolly confirmed Thursday that he will enter the race for Rep. Tom Davis’s (R-Va.) seat, setting up a big Democratic primary with former Rep. Leslie Byrne (D).
Connolly told supporters in an e-mail that he will enter the race. An official launch is set for next week.
Davis announced in January that he would not seek reelection to the House, terming it a “sabbatical from public life.”
Byrne has been in the race for months and raised $115,000 in the fourth quarter. Connolly launched an exploratory committee in January and raised $160,000 while he waited for Davis to make an announcement.
In the e-mail, Connolly laid out four goals: to end the war in Iraq; to combat climate change; to fix No Child Left Behind; and to provide all Americans access to healthcare.
“Government should be about getting results,” he said, adding: “That attitude has made us the best-managed county in the nation and allowed me to gain bipartisan support for my aggressive agenda on schools, the environment, public safety and more.”
Both Connolly and Byrne are powerful local Democratic figures.
Connolly recently began his second term as chairman of the Fairfax Board. Byrne, a former state legislator who narrowly lost a lieutenant governor’s race in 2005, held Davis’s seat for one term in the mid-1990s. |
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