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Virginia Democrats Congratulate New RPV Chair

Posted by Greg on Saturday, May 31

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May 31, 2008                                               

Virginia Democrats Congratulate New GOP Chairman

Del. Jeff Frederick promises to march a far-right party even further toward the fringe 

Richmond - Today, after months of brutal infighting, the Republican Party of Virginia has a new chairman: Delegate Jeffrey M. Frederick of Prince William County.

Frederick's victory follows a campaign of the sort we Democrats are used to seeing from him - vicious, mean-spirited, and built on falsehoods.

We expect to see plenty of the same from Jeff in the coming weeks and months, but his first challenge will surely be healing a massive number of self-inflicted wounds across the state GOP. Joining his efforts will be another slash-and-burn campaigner, Jim Gilmore, who received the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate earlier in the day with just 50.3% of the vote.

Here's a sampling of what his fellow Republicans have said about their new chairman:

"[T]his is the central problem with Jeff Frederick's campaign for Chairman.  He will say anything - launch any attack - to satisfy his own ambition.  He has viciously attacked the Republican Speaker of the House, local Republican volunteers, and our volunteer Congressional District Chairmen.  Anyone who doesn't support him is subject to these outrageous attacks." - John Hager, former Republican Party Chairman and Lt. Governor

"Try as I might, I could find almost nothing that Jeff Frederick actually plans to do, or how he intends to rally our party after he has spent weeks blaming anyone and anything that stands in his way." - Lee Talley, 2nd Senatorial District Chairman

"From where I sit, your entire campaign has set out to besmirch the Party as a whole, threaten or ridicule those who do not support you and apparently just makes things up when the truth doesn't suit." - Mike Wade, 3rd District Committee Chairman

Frederick has also promised that he will not run for reelection to the House of Delegates in 2009.

"We congratulate Jeff Frederick for his victory, and wish him luck in presiding over his greatly fractured party," said Democratic Party of Virginia executive director Levar Stoney. "Virginia Republicans now have a far-right chairman to match their far-right candidates. I like our odds." 

 

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