Emmett Hanger

Sen. Emmett Hanger (D-Augusta) has dropped all pretense, and is now actively encouraging Democrats to vote in the 24th Senate District primary tomorrow

Ken Adams, chairman of the 24th Senate District GOP Committee, has filed a notice of an appeal of the dismissal of his and his committee’s earlier suit against State Board of Elections.[read_more] As we previously reported here, the judge in the case being heard in…

A conservative Republican majority in the Virginia Senate depends on voters in the 24th Senate District coming out to support Dan Moxley on June 9.[read_more] Moxley, former chairman of the Augusta County GOP, is the most reliably conservative candidate in the three-way race. The other…

In a blow to conservatives seeking to reclaim the Republican Party’s role in nominating its candidates, Judge Elizabeth Dillon in federal court in Harrisonburg today dismissed the complaints of both the Party and an affected challenger to incumbent Sen. Emmett Hanger (R-Augusta).

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…