No surprise, I guess, since he can’t raise money while the Assembly is in session. And after last year, who would want to take that chance! And the Assembly gets to name his interim successor.
“This is awfully early to be leaving,” Sabato said.
“This is an insane tradition almost unknown elsewhere around the country. There’s no need for a sitting attorney general to resign. We’ve invented a problem that doesn’t exist,” he said.
Much is made over the fundraising advantage he’ll have since Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine can’t raise match his fundraising efforts. But as much as both of these guys will likely raise, there comes a point of diminishing returns. A lot of money can only bring you so far.
A couple of years ago, had you said the Dems would out fundraise the GOP in the presidential campaign, you would have predicted a Dem win. But money didn’t win it for George. Smarts did, although they obviously aren’t his smarts.