AG — Not This Time
The following email written by Sen. Mark Obenshain was passed along to us today from Old Zach from SST:
AG — Not This Time
Over the past several months I have been encouraged to run for Attorney General of Virginia. After great consideration and deliberation, I have decided that I will not be a candidate for that office in 2009.
To have the opportunity to serve Virginia’s citizens as Attorney General would be a great honor and privilege. It is a job for which I feel well suited by my professional endeavors over the past 21 years and by my public service. I have been encouraged by phone calls, e-mails and comments from friends from across Virginia and for that I am grateful.
My family is the abiding consideration for me in deciding to forego a run at this time. I have two children in high school, and I am very proud of them. I understand the sacrifices my family would have to make in order for me to seek statewide office at this time, and they are too great.
Thanks to one and all for the encouragement you have provided both for my consideration of a run for AG, and for my service in the Senate of Virginia.
-Mark
Filed under: 2009 Elections, Republicans, Virginia Politics
If there is anyone who understands the range of sacrifices-and potential risks-a family faces when someone runs for office, it is the Obenshains.
If he wants to wait until 2013, fair enough.
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