Tara Durant is seeking the Virginia Senate seat for District 27, which includes southern Stafford County, Spotsylvania County, and Fredericksburg.
Durant, 50, is a one-term House of Delegates member who won her 2021 election and was part of a red wave of Republican candidates who won a slim majority in the House of Delegates, as well as Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s first Republican Governor since Bob McDonnell won in 2009.
Nikki Rattray Baldwin is running in a GOP Primary Election for the Virginia Senate 29th District seat, which includes portions of central and eastern Prince William County and a portion of North Stafford.
Baldwin is a Navy veteran, a wife of a U.S. Marine of 13 years, and the mother of a 9-year-old boy. In the Navy, Baldwin worked as an EMT, disaster search and rescue, and as a protocol officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree focusing on psychology and a Master’s Degree in public administration.
Manassas & Manassas Park Cities Democratic Committee: “The Manassas & Manassas Park Cities Democratic Committee (MMPCDC) will hold its Two Blue Cities Breakfast on Saturday, July 8th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am at the Greater Manassas Volunteer Rescue Squad’s John S. Hutton Jr. Event Hall, 9324 Center Street, Manassas, VA 20110 (near the Social Security office).”
“The doors will open at 8:30 am, breakfast will be served at 9 am, and the program will start at 9:30 am.”
Mike Sienkowski, 39, is running for the GOP nomination for Stafford County Treasurer.
Sienkowski has worked for the Commissioner of the Revenue’s Office (the office that determines county property values) for the past 17 years. After 17 years as a county employee, Seinkowski wants to oversee the treasurer’s office (the office that produces the tax bills, mails them, and collects payment).
Washington Post: “The last time former Virginia delegates Jennifer Carroll Foy and Hala S. Ayala campaigned, both were chasing history before each ultimately fell short.”
“Carroll Foy sought unsuccessfully in 2021 to become the first African American woman to be elected governor of any state. Ayala — who identifies as Afro-Latina, Lebanese and Irish — aimed to be the first woman of color to hold a statewide office in Virginia during her unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor that same year. In Virginia, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run separately, not on a traditional two-person ticket.”
Heather Mitchell is seeking the GOP nomination for Stafford County Treasurer.
Mitchell already works in the treasurer’s office as a chief deputy to outgoing treasurer Laura Rudy, who chose not to run for re-election after serving since 2008. Rudy endorsed Mitchell when she announced her retirement in December 2022.
Bill Woolf is running for the GOP nomination to represent the new Virginia Senate 30th District in western Prince William County.
Woolf has worked in the US. Department of Justice, where he served as the director of Human Trafficking programs and later acting director at the Office for Victims of Crime. He also served as a special advisor to the White House for human trafficking and child exploitation.
Makya Little, 41, is running in a June 20 Primary Election to be the Democrat nominated by her party to run for the newly-created 19th District Virginia House of Delegates seat. The seat has no incumbent. Little has two Primary opponents, Natalie Shorter, and Rozia Henson.
The district leans strongly toward Democrats and includes a portion of Woodbridge in Prince William County and a portion of southern Fairfax County. Find your polling place.
Editors note: This is the latest in a series of articles featuring candidates running in Virignia’s June 20, 2023, Primary Election.
Matt Strickland, 39, is running for the GOP nomination in Virginia’s 27th Senate District, including portions of Spotsylvania, Stafford counties, and Fredericksburg.
