Va. GOP votes to switch from convention to primary to nominate 2017 candidates

[brooklynite]

Richmond Times-Dispatch:

By the slimmest of margins, leaders of the Republican Party of Virginia on Saturday voted to select their 2017 statewide candidates in a primary rather than at a convention — a nominating change that could have significant implications for a host of Republicans planning runs for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.

The 41-40 vote by the GOP’s State Central Committee effectively upended a compromise agreement reached last year by factions within the state party that called for a primary in the 2016 race for president to be followed by a nominating convention for statewide offices in 2017.

It was a victory for the party’s more moderate, establishment wing, whose leadership was unseated by conservative grass-roots and tea party activists in 2013.

Establishment Republicans have spent the past couple of years working to regain control of the State Central Committee at the district level. They emerged with a slight majority among the 40 new members elected to the committee this year, helping put them over the top.

[underpants]

1. That's how they got "The Cooch" in 2013

Just saying