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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Virginia's next governor

Posted By Max Brantley on Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:43 AM

A Republican, polls say, is likely to retake the governorship in Virginia. The Huckster has been working hard for him.

At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working women and feminists as "detrimental" to the family. He said government policy should favor married couples over "cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators." He described as "illogical" a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples.

... During his 14 years in the General Assembly, McDonnell pursued at least 10 of the policy goals he laid out in that research paper, including abortion restrictions, covenant marriage, school vouchers and tax policies to favor his view of the traditional family. In 2001, he voted against a resolution in support of ending wage discrimination between men and women.

He says his views (well, some of them) have changed.

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Virginia's next governor

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