25 places in Southwest Virginia that statewide candidates should see for policy lessons

25 places in Southwest Virginia that statewide candidates should see for policy lessons

In Tuesday’s column, I listed how few of the statewide candidates have been to Virginia’s westernmost county — Lee County, a tiny piece of which is closer to nine other state capitals than it is to its own in Richmond. Only three of the 12 statewide candidates have been there, and only two of those in the course of a political campaign (Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears and Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares; Democrat…