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The former Carlyle Group CEO beat out a slew of convention opponents in a party, and a Commonwealth, settling into the new course of things. WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 15: Carlyle Group President and Chief Operating Officer Glenn Youngkin participates in a panel discussion during the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s ‘Infrastructure Week’ program May 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. The panel, titled ‘Collaboration, Compromise, Consensus: Building A Blueprint for National Infrastructure Investment,’ highlighed national and local plans that emphasized public-private partnerships. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Virginia politics, especially conservative Virginia politics, used to be a waiting game.
Though, of course, folks occasionally jumped the line, the Commonwealth was once run by the iron rule of the Byrd machine. Only a half-century ago, “the Organization” as it was called, worked on paying your dues. Delegates became state senators. State senators became attorney general. AGs so often became lieutenant governor, and on.
The election of Republican Gov. Linwood Holton ended old school Southern Democratic reign in 1969, but a holistic, incremental ethos seemed to pervade the state’s politics even into the 1990s and 2000s, even with the rise of the rapidly growing Northern Virginia. Douglas Wilder went from the state senate to […]
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