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Victory Alert: Congratulations. Now Get to Work.

Victoria Cobb, President
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Today, pro-family Virginians are celebrating yesterday’s election of candidates whom we believe hold to and will govern by values you and I share. After months of working hard either for candidates or organizations like The Family Foundation to educate voters, seeing the fruit of that labor is sweet indeed.

Exit polling found that evangelicals made up over one-third of voters yesterday and 83 percent of those voted for the pro-life, pro-family candidates. Those numbers surpass the high water mark of pro-family involvement in any Virginia election to date! No one can question that our Winning Matters campaign had an incredible effect on voter turnout. Thank you to everyone that contributed to the campaign by donating financially, distributing Voter Guides, Report Cards, holding voter registration drives, and a multitude of other activities. Your efforts made a huge impact yesterday.

But now, the work begins.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m as thrilled as you that Virginians sent a clear message to President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid (not to mention Mark Warner, Jim Webb, et. al.) that we reject the debt riddled policies they are pushing. I’m excited that we have a Governor-elect, Lt. Governor-elect and Attorney General-elect who share our values. But I also know that we’ve been here before, in the days after election, thinking that the work was done only to learn that it was far from over.

Even with a larger conservative majority in the Virginia House of Delegates, the obstacle that our pro-family, pro-life agenda has faced for several years – the Virginia state Senate – stands between us and our goals. While we hope members of that chamber also get the message of last night’s election results, they have two years before they face the voters and if history is any indication, they are hoping that you will have forgotten by then.

The first opportunities to affect the Senate will come with two special elections in the next few weeks. With Ken Cuccinelli’s victory last night, there will be an election to replace him in his Fairfax Senate seat and, Senator Ken Stolle won his election for sheriff of Virginia Beach, meaning that there will be an election for that seat as well.

Here is the commitment I’m asking you to make today: we will not stop, we will not rest, until the Senate of Virginia reflects our values! We will not stop working until that chamber joins the rest of our leaders in supporting common sense pro-life and pro-family proposals.

We have the opportunity in the upcoming session to give all 40 members of the Senate the chance to vote on legislation that reflects our values – and if they reject those values again, we have to make them pay the price at the ballot box in 2011.

I also encourage you to be praying for all the newly elected candidates. In particular, over the next few months Governor-elect McDonnell will be selecting key advisors, cabinet members and a multitude of officials. Please pray that he appoints qualified, principled conservatives to those key positions, the impact of which will go on well after he leaves office. It is often said, “personnel is policy,” so selecting those he will take counsel from in the years ahead is crucial for the Governor-elect.

But today, celebrate. Enjoy a hard fought victory.

Then get ready to join The Family Foundation as we look only to the future.