National LGBTQ rights group makes big play in Virginia legislative races
RICHMOND — The Human Rights Campaign is making a “six-figure” investment in 27 Virginia House and Senate races, an unprecedented commitment to state-level contests for the national LGBTQ rights group.
With digital ads, direct mail and paid field organizers, HRC aims to mobilize 1.2 million “equality voters” for the pivotal election in November, when all 100 seats in the House of Delegates and all 40 in the Senate will be on the ballot. The group also plans to make direct donations to the 27 candidates, all of them Democrats.
“We believe that Virginia’s at a turning point for people who live in that state, for LGBTQ people,” HRC President Alphonso David said in an interview Tuesday. He will formally announce the plan at an appearance in Richmond on Thursday.
National groups across the political spectrum have been big players in previous Virginia legislative races, battling over such issues as guns, abortion and the environment. But until now, HRC has mostly limited itself to national or statewide races.
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