incumbent protection act

The candidate for the GOP nomination for the 24th Senate District seat currently held by Sen. Emmett Hanger (R-Augusta) is seeking to join local GOP efforts to have the law allowing incumbents to choose their own method of re-nomination declared unconstitutional.[read_more] As we reported at…

The suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia alleges violations of the Republican Party’s constitutional rights arising from operation of Virginia’s Incumbent Protection Act.[read_more] As expected, the Republican Committee with oversight of Sen. Emmett Hanger’s 24th Senate District wasted…

Sen. Emmett Hanger (R-Augusta) late this afternoon formally designated a primary as his renomination method. But the party had already designated a convention for that, meaning the clash is likely headed to court…quickly.[read_more] At issue, as we’ve written about before, is the Incumbent Protection Act…

For the gentleman from Augusta, retirement may be the biggest favor he could do for his fellow incumbents—regardless of who succeeds him.[read_more] Hanger is, by all accounts, a man universally liked by his colleagues. However, his reputation for collegiality and a genial disposition among his…

This General Assembly Session is moving fast, and one thing the leaders are good at is rushing through bills they like or don’t like, depending on whether or not they want to quickly pass them or kill them without drawing our attention to it before…

Last evening, by a vote of 6-1, the Republican Party’s 24th Senate Legislative District Committee threw down the gauntlet against a law, unchanged in the books for over 20 years, that is regarded as being designed to protect incumbents against successful nomination challenges.