Eileen has a great article up on Al Pollard, the former Delegate and Sierra Club Chapter Head who has Stafford Democrats standing up to cheer.
Pollard served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2000-2005 representing the 99th district which is mainly a Northern Neck district. This 28th Senate district also picks up large parts of Stafford where some of his more conservative ways will go over big. But it is Pollard's committment to conservation and the environment that has captured this Democrat's heart and the hearts of Dems throughout Virginia.A former chapter director, he says it was the Sierra Club that taught him how to write a plan for transforming his environmental values into results. "The political process can be frustratingly slow," he says, "but good things can and do happen. I'm a Democrat representing the most Republican-leaning district in the state, which demonstrates to me that politics is about the issues and helping people. It shouldn't be about a party agenda." Pollard is the only member of the General Assembly to receive a 100 percent rating from the Virginia League of Conservation Voters for four years running. No small feat indeed!
If we can pick up seats with Chap Petersen, Janet Oleszek, and whomever wins the Primary to challenge Jay O'Brien, it will be up to great Dems like Al Pollard and Ralph Northam to lock the critical State Senate Majority that means everything in 2007 and for redistricting in 2011.