CARDINAL NEWS: Suit to void Lynchburg election result seeks an extraordinary remedy, but the legal process is working the way it should

“I’ve followed Virginia politics for a long time, and I’ve never seen a local government as dysfunctional as the one currently in Lynchburg. There are lots that are politically divided — the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors is almost always evenly split between Democrats from around Blacksburg and Republicans elsewhere — but I’ve never seen the vitriol that’s present in Lynchburg, which is entirely between Republicans. All parties have factions and some degree of internal tensions, but in Lynchburg there’s open political warfare between the hardliners (Helgeson and Misjuns) and the more temperate Republicans on the council.” Read the full article here.