Former delegates Jennifer Carroll Foy and Hala Ayala are battling to reenter the General Assembly after losing 2021 bids for governor and lieutenant governor.
, escaping that city’s extreme poverty and crime when she enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute.among the first Black women to graduate from the military school before she earned her law degree from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego and chose to represent indigent clients.in a low-income area of Alexandria, where her family leaned heavily on government aid programs after her father was fatally shot in the District.
With various veteran Democrats leaving Richmond next year, “the General Assembly is going to change a lot,” said Filler-Corn, who is among those not seeking reelection in November. “Integrity matters,” Carroll Foy said. “I am a leader who has kept all of my promises that I’ve made to the people of the commonwealth and I’m a person that they can trust who will do the right thing no matter what. And I think that’s extremely important.
Ayala had earlier voted in favor of moving the bill to repeal Right to Work to the House floor and would be in favor of ending the law, her campaign said. Carroll Foy received from state Sen. Joseph D. Morrissey , who has said he is personally against abortion in most cases. “It’s often less about elite endorsements or experience and more about ideology — having what the more progressive wing of the party would consider the right positions on key issues,” Rozell said.
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