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Don Boswell 鈥� Henrico County GOP Chairman
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Don Boswell. Photo: Lars Gesing/CU News Corps
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鈥淚 personally viewed George Herbert Walker Bush as being too Ivy League. I felt he was more like a silk-stocking upper-upper middle-class Republican.
鈥淭he fact that the son (George W.) was considered kind of a drinker, a rowdy roughhouser 鈥� that sat a little better in this area with the more longterm working and middle-class Republicans in Henrico.
鈥淗e seemed more down-to-earth. When they would criticize him about not being too bright, that worked in his favor in this area and even in Virginia to some extent.鈥�
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Cheryl Zando 鈥� Henrico County Democrats Chairwoman, 鈥�08+鈥�12 Obama Activist
Cheryl Zando. Photo: Lars Gesing/CU News Corps
鈥淢ark Warner鈥檚 and Tim Kaine鈥檚 election as governor primed the pump for the 2008 election.
鈥淢y parents are pretty conservative. My father said the last Democrat he voted for before Barack Obama had been Lyndon B. Johnson. He was sort of like Virginia.
鈥淚 always joke about my dad being my sample of one. He often votes the way Virginia votes.
鈥淢y mom considered herself a Republican at the time. But they really had huge respect for Gov. Mark Warner and Gov. Kaine. They ranked both of them as the top governors in the twenty-plus years they had been living in Virginia.
鈥淪eeing their style of governance, of being fiscally moderate and being smart with our financial resources, but also having the values toward public education and increasing services for those who need it most, creating the safety net, really helped voters in Virginia see that Democrats weren鈥檛 just about increasing taxes and spending more money.鈥�
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