June Primaries Next Week Features Lunenburg Native

STATEWIDE – The June Primary Elections date in Virginia is approaching after the original date was changed through Governor’s Executive Order 56. The original elections were set to take place on June 9, but were moved back to June 23. 

This election is a primary for Republicans and Democrats with Lunenburg County residents picking candidates from a Senate and House of Representatives group. There has also been a change in polling location in Victoria as Victoria Fire and Rescue is no longer a voting location. Instead, the Victoria-Lunenburg Community Center will serve as the polling place for this election only.

The deadline to request an absentee ballot to be mailed to you took place this week on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Only those candidates who qualified to have their names printed on the official ballot for the June 9, 2020 primary election are included for those offices on the ballot for the June 23, 2020 primary election. No other person shall be entitled to qualify to have his or her name printed on the official ballot for any office that was scheduled to be nominated at the June 9, 2020 primary election.

The Republicans will have three names on the ballot in a primary to see who will oppose Democrat Mark Warner for his seat in the Virginia Senate. The candidates who are attempting to win the Republican nomination and unseat Warner are Daniel M. Gade, Thomas A. Speciale II and Alissa A. Baldwin. Baldwin is a Lunenburg native while Gade and Speciale are both U.S. Army veterans.

Baldwin says, “My day job is to teach the next generation about the U.S. Constitution and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.  Yet, every day, I see more elected officials working for themselves instead of for “We the People” they represent. It is frustrating to watch, as more governing officials become career politicians rather than advocates for constituents.  I am a regular citizen, a patriotic American, a lifelong Virginian, and a woman passionate to defend and protect the Constitution of this great nation. So I’m taking my civics classroom lessons across the Commonwealth and will carry them all the way to Washington, D.C.”

The Democrat primary will feature candidates who are seeking to run for the Fifth District Congressional seat. They are R.D. Huffstetler, Jr., B. Cameron Webb, Claire C. Russo and John D. Lessinski.