Upon hearing House Appropriations Chairman Del. Vince Callahan, who clashed with Governor Warner and Senate Majority Leader John Chichester (R-Stafford) last year over the budget, call the former “an outstanding asset and then praise the latter,
Christopher Newport University President Paul S. Trible Jr., [quipped] that although “it’s encouraging to know that Republicans and Democrats are going to work together, it’s even more encouraging to know that Republicans and Republicans are going to work together.”
Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Mount Solon, seconded the idea of Republicans working together.
“The Democrats for the longest time were the majority party in Virginia, and the majority of Virginians agreed with their ideals. And then the extremists within their party came in and tried to define what that party stood for. And what you’ve seen since is that the party has struggled to get its footing.
“I don’t want to see that happen to the Republican Party,” Hanger said