"You ready to win? Yeah!"
Governor Warner joined State Sen. Creigh Deeds in Winchester on Sunday, at a rally for Senate Candidate Karen Schultz. Schultz is running a close race to fill the open seat of retiring Senator Russ Potts.
Governor Warner stressed the importance of continuing “common sense leadership” that reaches across party lines and fiscal responsibility, in the same vein as Senator Potts. From the Northern Virginia Daily:
The bipartisan get-together that saluted Potts last month speaks volume about the region and the people who live here, he said.
“I can’t imagine a room anywhere else in the state where you’d have so many Republicans, Democrats, independents, Libertarians, vegetarians, all together because they were celebrating the common sense leadership that is so desperately needed at every level of political leadership,” he said. “That’s what Karen Schultz is going to bring to the Virginia Senate.”
Warner said Schultz would continue the district’s history of fiscal conservatism.
“Time and again there’s a bunch of people in the legislature who just want to say no,” he said. “We want someone who will go down with an independent voice.”
The Winchester Star adds:
Warner said the successes of his term in office, in terms of education and business, were due to Democrats and Republicans working together.
Warner said he believes Schultz will be an independent voice in Richmond. She is also a fiscal conservative, who will pay for what is promised and not pass costs on in the future, he said.
It’s this type of common-sense approach that makes Virginia Democrats so successful. Like Governor Warner, Karen Schultz and other Democratic candidates are looking to bring some much needed change to Richmond, change that is willing and able to work with others to do the work of the people of Virginia.