On Saturday Senator Jill Holtzman Vogel (R-Fauquier) told the Richmond Times Dispatch that she intends to run for lieutenant governor next year.
I’m running,” she told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. I’ve had a lot of people from all around the state engage me and ask me to run, and I’m incredibly flattered and incredibly humbled.”
“I think this is an awesome opportunity,
“We need to get our mojo back as a party,”
Senator Vogel is a married lawyer, a managing partner at Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky PLLC, located in Warrenton and Washington DC. She is also the mother of 6 children.
Others who have expressed an interest in running for lieutenant governor include Sen. Bryce E. Reeves (R-Spotsylvania); Pete Snyder, who lost the nomination for LG in 2013; and Danny Vargas, a Northern Virginia businessman who ran for delegate last year.
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