First-term Rep. Denver Riggleman has found himself locked in a fierce intraparty battle after he enraged local officials in his district by officiating a same-sex marriage last year
A small universe of Republican Party activists will drive through the parking lot of a central Virginia church on Saturday to decide the fate of Rep. Denver Riggleman.
The district, which spans from the Washington, D.C., exurbs all the way down the North Carolina border, is larger in size than New Jersey. Delegates — roughly 3,500 in number Riggleman, a distillery owner and Air Force veteran, has excoriated what he described as “a bizarre Dairy Queen convention” run by “little party bosses or little Stalins” seeking financial gain. Their goal, he said, is to keep the electorate small as possible because his opponent wouldn’t appeal to a“I didn’t grow up in that political pipeline,” he said. “I think I scare the hell out of people because I just say, 'Hey, that’s corrupt. Don’t do that.
Good is projecting confidence in his prospects, declaring last month that he has support from 62 percent of the delegates to the convention, a claim that Riggleman refutes. The vote will be a signal about whether socially conservative positions out of step with the majority of Americans are still considered wedge issues for GOP voters. But Good, who stepped down from the Liberty University athletic department to run, has said his opposition to Riggleman extends beyond his willingness to officiate a gay marriage.
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