VA Gets Top Rating for Pro-Business Environment (WHSV TV)

During Kaine’s administration, Virginia has been recognized as the most business-friendly state in America (Forbes.com 2006-2008), one of the best states for business (CNBC 2007 and 2008), the top-performing state government in America (Governing Magazine 2008) and the state where “a child is most likely to have a successful life (Education Week 2007).”

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Wagner challenges Bolling to debates

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Democratic lieutenant governor nominee Jody M. Wagner yesterday challenged Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, the Republican incumbent, to five debates to be held in different regions of the state.

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Beach's Wagner wins Democratic nod for lieutenant governor

By Bill Sizemore, The Virginian-Pilot

For voters this fall, she said, “the choice is clear: Pick somebody who’s going to work to fix our problems or somebody who’s going to be ideological and stand in the way. I look forward to that comparison.”

Wagner linked Bolling to Warner’s Republican predecessor, Jim Gilmore, whom Democrats blame for driving the state budget into a ditch. She referred to Gilmore’s legacy as “the Gilmore-Bolling financial disaster.”

She said she will work to bring “21st-century businesses” such as renewable-energy enterprises to Virginia, expand pre-kindergarten education and seek a bipartisan solution to the state’s transportation problems.

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Wagner Wins VA Dem Lt. Gov. Primary

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