Republican Scott T. Parkinson, the vice president of government affairs at the Club for Growth, has announced he will take on Senator Tim Kaine in 2024.
From APnews.com,
Parkinson has spent more than 15 years working in Washington, D.C., including as a staffer for U.S. Sens. John Ensign, Ron Johnson and Marco Rubio and as executive director of the Republican Study Committee, a conservative House Caucus. He was chief of staff to then-U.S. Rep. DeSantis and then served as deputy executive director of the DeSantis gubernatorial transition team in Florida.
Parkinson’s array of Republican connections will help him raise the money and reach the voters necessary to compete in what’s shaping up to be a crowded field seeking the party’s nomination, he said.
Parkinson plans to campaign on a promise to cap the growth of government spending and reduce taxation. He voiced support for doubling down on Trump-era tax cuts and rolling back government regulations “stifling American opportunity.”
From the washingtonpost.com:
“It’s something I started thinking about pretty seriously in January, and a lot of it is because of this blueprint that Governor Youngkin has laid out, giving Republicans the opportunity, I think, to win statewide in the commonwealth,” Parkinson said. “So there was some logic behind the decision to do it now and not wait 10 years.”
Senator Tim Kaine has been in office since 2013. Parkinson is the first candidate to announce a run against him.
More on the campaign at the above links.
