The special elections are to fill two seats in Virginia’s House of Delegates that were held by Democrats, one of which resigned to run for governor and the other to become a judge.

He’s promising a “vicious” campaign.

Leaders in Prince William County are upset that the federal government has decided to discontinue a program that allowed local police officers to check the immigration status of those suspected of being in the country illegally.

The practice of checking the immigration status of arrested individuals is controversial. But the leaders of a county in Virginia which has done it for years now thinks the entire commonwealth should follow suit.

If Mayor Vince Gray’s announcement that D.C. police would no longer be checking the immigration status of people stopped for minor offenses put the city at one end of the immigration spectrum, then Virginia’s Prince William County is certainly at the other — something Corey Stewart, the Chairman At-Large of the county’s Board of Supervisors, wants everyone to know.