By Tucker Watkins
Someone needs to explain the strange turn of events now going on in the 22nd House of Delegates District. Kathy Byron, who has held the seat since 1998 and who has had no opposition in the last four elections, filed her paperwork to select a primary as the method of nomination and as the only person who filed as a candidate was declared as the Republican Candidate by her the legislative district chairman Rick Boyer and the State Board of Elections. Now that same legislative district chairman, a newly minted lawyer but longtime Republican has posted a call in the Lynchburg newspaper [1] for a legislative district Convention. As far as I can tell this has never been done before and has no legal standing. Boyer was supposedly a strong backer of Byron who supported him strongly when he ran for Clerk of Court last year in a campaign he lost by over twenty points.
Where in the law does Boyer see this as proper procedure? Why would he pick his long time ally to go after in this way ?