Wade was overturned, so I’m hoping we can do some great things with that,” she said. If elected, New Craig said she would push for new restrictions on abortion. “Some (staff members) don’t get that involved, but I had been with him for 22 years, so I was able to do a lot more.”Ĭosgrove has endorsed New Craig and the Cosgrove for Senate campaign has made multiple donations to her, totaling upward of $41,000, according to campaign finance reports. “I believe in everything he stood for,” she said. New Craig explained she and the outgoing senator have a close working relationship that allowed her to be “very involved” with the legislative process. She has worked for the legislator since 2002 when he was serving in the House. New Craig, 56, is Cosgrove’s chief of staff. “I had more than 300 individual donors.”Īnderson also donated $12,000 to his campaign and rolled over about $23,000 from his previous campaign for the House. “All 100% of my (campaign donations) came from the people,” he said. The former delegate, who proposed legislation this year offering tax credits to restaurants that recycle oyster shells, said he also would continue to push for measures to help the Chesapeake Bay.Īnderson has the smallest war chest going into the primary, but said he is proud to be running a “total grassroots” campaign that didn’t rely on corporate donors. If elected, Anderson - a proponent of eliminating the car tax - said shrinking the government and lowering taxes would be among his top priorities. “I don’t think we can keep throwing money at it and expecting different results,” he said, adding he wants school boards and local governments to take charge of schools. “They’re talking about adult concepts with children at too young of an age and its breeding confusion.”Īnderson said he believes public schools are failing students and that the Virginia Department of Education should be abolished. “I think generally parents feel that schools are over-sexualizing their children in just a variety of ways,” he said. If elected to the Senate, Anderson told the Pilot he would continue to support similar efforts. Parents could have viewed it and instructed schools to prevent their children from accessing certain material. The petitions argued the books violated the state’s obscenity law.ĭuring this year’s legislative session, Anderson put forth a measure would have required schools to create a database of library books that contain graphic content. He filed two petitions last year – which a judge ultimately dismissed – on behalf of a Virginia Beach resident to prevent bookstores in the state from selling “Gender Queer” or “A Court of Mist and Fury” to those under 16. It’s time to move on.”Īnderson, 48, also has been at the forefront of a push to restrict minors’ access to books with sexual content. “…I am going to take the first step and say these things publicly that I know many of my colleagues think. “One thing Trump does very well in Virginia is mobilize the left to vote against him and anyone who supports him,” he wrote in an editorial letter to The Virginian-Pilot. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menu
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