Jill Holtzman Vogel, left, and Justin Fairfax, right, are facing off in the lieutenant governor’s race in Virginia. “Senator Vogel wants to take government out of everybody’s life [but] Senator Vogel sponsored the invasive ultrasound bill that forces women to have invasive ultrasounds,” said Fairfax, a former federal prosecutor. Almost every lieutenant governor in modern history has run for governor, including the Democratic incumbent, Ralph Northam. The lieutenant governor’s office has become more powerful in its own right in recent years, with a closely divided Senate producing more ties to break. When Fairfax invoked her 2012 abortion bill to attack that notion, Vogel pushed back hard.

Source: Washington Post August 09, 2017 22:59 UTC