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Scott Surovell for Delegate campaign:
Today, Mt. Vernon resident Scott Surovell, candidate for the House of Delegates for the 44th District, denounced the opinions of Bob McDonnell contained in his thesis from Regent University, describing McDonnell’s views as “inflammatory, vastly out of step with the views of Mount Vernon’s residents, and in many cases flat out wrong.” In a letter to his opponent, Surovell calls on Jay McConville to join him “in repudiating and condemning the ideas.”
In his letter to McConville, Surovell selects particular examples from the thesis which he calls disturbing and disappointing. Among these are McDonnell’s assertions that “U.S. Supreme Court cases prohibiting the regulation of contraception or ‘legal and sexual relationships of marriage,’ ‘dealt among the harshest blows to the American family,” and that government assistance with childcare would “subsidize a dynamic new trend of working women and feminists that is ultimately detrimental to the family.”
Surovell also shows that elements in McDonnell’s thesis laid a framework to his voting record in his fourteen years as a member of House of Delegates. Surovell points out that McDonnell voted to limit access to birth control, voted against improvements to childcare centers, and introduced legislation to study the repeal of Virginia’s no-fault divorce rules citing the same factors in his thesis.
Surovell is calling on Jay McConville, the Republican candidate also running in the 44th, to join him in denouncing and condemning the extreme ideas in McDonnell’s thesis so that the voters of the 44th District can have a clear understanding of both delegate candidates’ positions on the issues raised by the thesis.
“I would ask that you break ranks with the leader of the Republican Party of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, and join me in denouncing these inflammatory and reactionary ideas,” Surovell concludes.
Don't hold your breath, Scott. All these Republicans are in lockstep with Bob McDonnell and his retrograde, reactionary, and radical views. Such is the sorry state of the Republican Party of Virginia these days...
