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Ken Cuccinelli got what he wanted when he and his supporters manipulated the state GOP into scheduling a convention rather than a primary for their 2013 nominees.
    Everyone knows that a primary is more democratic than a convention. Anyone in your party can show up at their usual voting location and cast a ballot.

By Congressman Robert Hurt
Communicating with the people of Virginia’s 5th District and hearing your feedback is very important to us. In order to ensure that we keep you up to date on what is going on from month to month, we record a monthly video address. You may watch the video address on our website at hurt.house.gov, and you may read the address below:

    May and June have our two holidays honoring our parents. I hope you called your mother, or went to visit her on Mother’s Day. I can’t do this. My mother died in 2002 at the age of 92. My father, John Edwin Barnhart Jr., died in 1964 at the age of 48, something I never quite got over.
    However, I’m sure most of you, who still have living parents, did something to show your mom you love her on Mother’s Day, and I hope you will honor your dad on Father’s Day.

By Marla Graff Decker
Virginia Secretary of Public Safety

    I would like to take the opportunity during Law Enforcement Memorial Week to pay tribute to the men and women who protect and serve the Commonwealth, risking their lives each day to keep us safe. 
    Since the first known line-of-duty death in America, there have been more than 19,000 officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice.  Tragically, 487 of those fallen heroes were serving Virginia when their lives were cut short.