The Virginia House of Delegates killed a plan by the state Senate GOP to redraw legislative lines Wednesday. The Senate GOP plan emerged out of a surprise vote on Inaguration Day that took advantage of the absence of a Democratic state senator, a civil rights leader who had traveled to Washington, DC for the inauguration. Democrats called it a “dirty trick” and Republican state leaders like Gov. Bob McDonnell and Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling condemned the move.
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