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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Jill is a commonsense conservative who would make a fantastic lt. governor and her appeal as a candidate would dwarf most recent GOP choices for that post. We can pick apart certain votes we don’t like on any Republican in the General Assembly. She is a solid conservative voice.
This Senator voted against Obenshain’s Photo Id bill. I know because I was there in the P&E Committee. It passed only because a Democrat took a potty break and did not leave her proxy. Senator Obenshain was astute enough to call the vote, while the Democrat was out and the bill passed. Thanks Jill for your support! Another squishy Republican that we do not need.
Has consistently sold herself when back home looking for support as the conservative she clearly is not during her votes from her Richmond state Senate seat. Another in the crowded group of self identified Virginia conservatives, in other words a professional political chameleon. The party is stacked deep with these so if this is what you are looking for you have a lot of other establishment lawyer options available other then Sen Jill Holtzman Vogel a Barbara Comstock bookend to choose from.
She also voted for SB12, http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=161&typ=bil&val=SB12&submit=GO which makes it illegal to discriminate in unemployment for those who dress up as the opposite sex. If you don’t want a man dressed as a woman greeting your customers, too bad, you have to hire him or face charges. If you don’t want that man in the ladies room of your restaurant scaring children, too bad. Vogel supported the bill that would make that possible.
You understand that bill had absolutely nothing to do with private employers, right? If you click on the link you provided and read the bill and summary, you can clearly see that it only deals with public employment…so, state and local government employment. Nothing else. Not that you’re creating jobs, but you can hire whoever you want still.
Not yet. Wouldn’t it also cover government contractors?
No. It wouldn’t. But again, you’re insinuating. You didn’t specify just government contractors in your comment. You said this would apply to ALL employers. Which is wholly and completely wrong.
You seem awfully angry. Perhaps your time would be better spent at that other blog where everyone is angry and nasty all the time. You’d fit right in. Oh wait. You already do.
Ummm……….you sound very familiar.
So do your inaccurate comments.