Hanger Announces Candidacy
Running For Fourth Senate Term | By Patte Wood
Staff Reporter |
Incumbent Republican Virginia 24th District State Senator Emmett Hanger announced his candidacy for a third Senate term while visiting Lexington on Tuesday, April 24th.
Swinging through the outer areas of his district to personally deliver his campaign material, Hanger explained that he would formally announce his candidacy in Augusta County and Rockingham County on Wednesday, April 25th.
"This is the first time that I have been opposed by someone in my own party since I was elected 12 years ago," commented Hanger. "It will make it interesting."
During the next weeks, Hanger plans to amplify his platform and outline in detail his accomplishments while he has been in office. Hanger also explained that things are changing in Richmond and it is no longer business as usual.
"The more urban areas are growing and gaining power meaning that it is important for us to work together to protect our rural heritage and character,” he commented. Hanger cautions that as government moves into a more partisan approach, we need to still look to bi-partisan cooperation to accomplish what is needed for the greater good.
Areas that Hanger has been active in during his career include tax reform, educational accountability, land conservation, illegal immigration, gun ownership rights, Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Initiatives, Government Efficiency & Privatization, Restructuring of Mental Health Delivery Systems, Farmland Preservation, and State Parks
Hanger has held many leadership positions including Chair of Rehabilitation and Social Services, and member of the Senate Rules & Senate Finance Committees. If the Republicans gain the majority and he is re-elected, he is in line to be Chair of the Senate Finance Committee.
He has also served as Chair of the Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relationships, the Farmland Preservation Task Force, Co-chair of Land Conservation and Parks, Chair of the VSDB Advisory Commission, the Commonwealth Competition Council, the Commission on Educational Accountability, the Virginia delegation of the Chesapeake Bay Commission, Chair of the Chesapeake Bay Commission in 2006, Co-chair of the Committee on State and Local Taxation and the Virginia Tax Reform Commission, Chair of the Virginia Delegation to the National Streamlined Sales Tax Project, Co-Chair of the Virginia Legislative Sportsman Caucus, Chair of the Policy Committee of the Senate Republican Caucus, and Chair of the Budget and Revenue Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Chair of the Land Conservation & PDR Funding Study Group, the Comprehensive Services Act Study Group, Board of Trustees of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation, the New College Institute (Martinsville) and the Center for Rural Virginia.
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