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Del. Bob Marshall: Social Conservative on GOP Primary Ballot

Voters will decide Tuesday among four Republicans running for U.S. Senate.

 

With congressional primary elections scheduled next week, Patch is profiling each of the four Republican candidates running for the U.S. Senate, who will face each other on the ballot June 12.

Virginia House of Delegates member Bob Marshall, one of the most conservative voices in Richmond, is one of four Republicans running for the U.S. Senate. His name will appear on Tuesday's GOP primary ballot along with former Sen. George Allen, Bishop E.W. Jackson, Sr. and Jamie Radtke, former chairwoman of the Virginia Federation of Tea Party Patriots. This is his second attempt at running for the U.S. Senate.

Marshall, 68, from Prince William County, is looking beyond Tuesday's primary and taking on former Gov. Tim Kaine, who is likely to be the Democratic nominee.

“I can beat Tim Kaine in the Nov. 6 general election,” Marshall said in a statement when he announced his intentions to run. “I already have a ‘can do’ record of challenging Tim Kaine and winning in the public arena on major economic and social issues, and I can do it again.”

Marshall has served in the Virginia House since 1992 and is one of its most conservative members. Marshall wrote the amendment to the Virginia Constitution prohibiting same-sex marriage, which was ratified in 2006, and the Virginia Health Care Freedom Act of 2010, the basis of Virginia’s federal court challenge of the federal health-care law.

This year he also sponsored part of the current House Bill 1, which would impart the rights of "personhood" to a human embryo at the moment of conception. Marshall said in a statement last month that his bill creates "a civil cause of action for the wrongful death of an unborn child." He says the measure provides "a legal remedy for parents whose beloved unborn baby is killed by the negligent or criminal act" of a third party.

In 2008, Marshall lost by only 1 percentage point to former governor James S. Gilmore III in his quest to earn the Republicans’ Senate nomination at a 2008 convention to run against former governor Mark Warner (D).  

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T Ailshire

8:24 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

This is the same Bob Marshall who thinks that women who have abortions later give birth to mentally retarded children, who blocked the confirmation of a highly qualified judge based on non-judicial qualities, joked about rape on the floor of the House of Delegates, and wasted hours of his fellow delegates' time pontificating on the socially backward bills introduced in the Virginia legislature over the past few years.

Thank the gods he has no real chance.

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Vinny Darby

8:36 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The biggest service Bob Marshall could offer to the state of Virginia is to retire. He is beyond out of touch. He spends all of his time writing laws trying to shape society towards his world view instead of doing anything to improve Virginian's quality of life.

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Karen Gautney

8:55 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Bob Marshall personifies all that is hateful and backward about Virginia.

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Isle D Belle

10:00 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

So he has spent an inordinate amount of energy trying to turn back the hands of time and conforming secular law to his personal religious agenda. And this is good for Virginia how?

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Uncle Smartypants

10:03 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

He's running for govenor of the 1950s. He's the Standard Bearer for Bigotry.

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Wake up America

11:59 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Bob Marshall has more integrity than any other elected official in the state of Virginia. He believes in the U.S. Constitution and the Constituional rights for all citizens in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Often called the "Patrick Henry" in our Virginia Legislature he is working hard to protect his constituents. Your faulting him for taking the moral high ground says more about you then about Bob Marsahll.

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Uncle Smartypants

12:09 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

It's only the moral high ground as defined by the religious right. I respect anybody's personal beliefs, but Bob Marshall is trying to legislate his morality; pass laws based on morals most of us do not share. Disqualifying a candidate for a judge solely because he was gay is bigotry, pure and simply. He is unfit for any office.

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Gary Jacobsen

10:13 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The U S Supreme Court ruled that a woman's right "to choose" is protected by both the Ninth and the Fourteenth Amendments to the U S Constitution. Mr. Marshall and "Wake up America" ignore that fact.

Erin Gibson

2:15 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Maybe so, but I believe he will do well here in Manassas, which is predominately Republican and anti abortion. We will see on Tuesday.

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Duane Snodgrass

2:47 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

I can understand being anti-abortion and Republican, but Marshall is NOT the person we need in state or federal government. He is one of Virginia's biggest embarrassments.

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Gary Jacobsen

10:11 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Be careful how you use the term "anti abortion." Conservatives are more accurately called "anti abortion rights." There is a world of difference.

Jenny W

3:08 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Many MANY Republicans in PWCO are embarrassed by him and will vote for ANYBODY but Bob Marshall. He needs to GO! His politics are driven by his strong Catholic beliefs, and that has no place in politics.

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Michael

4:24 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Bob Marshall is one of the worse politicians I've seen in my life. I live in Prince William country and am ashamed that someone like him represents Virginia. He should be working for the people of Virginia and not his own wharped sense of what "he" thinks people should do. He needs to stay out of other people bedrooms and deal with issues that effect the economy, jobs and transportation.

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Ed Stoddard

5:48 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Bob Marshall uses religion to justify his bigotry, homophobia, and subjugation of women. We need politicians who lift up all citizens, not damn them to hell and pass policies to keep them in their place. His caustic, divisive style cannot be blamed on the Bible or on the Constitution!

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T Ailshire

6:16 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Just got a robo-call from Marshall in which he touts his homophobic, bigoted record.

Excuse me, I need to go take a shower.

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Anne Monahan

10:40 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

I urge the anti-Marshall voters (and I am one of them) to support a sure loser from the Tea Party,: Jaime Radtke.
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T Ailshire

10:52 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Jamie is a neat lady, running for mostly the right reasons. However, she too would deny rights to a segment of our population, and would legislate medical decisions that should remain between a woman and her doctor. As I told Jamie the other day, if the Tea Party had stayed away from the neocon religious fundamentalist issues and focused on economy and states' rights, as they began, they'd be exactly what this country needed.

I would fully expect Jamie to vote against gay judges and to enhance the divisiveness now present in Washington.

Unfortunately, our choices are:
Vote Republican for only a Senate race
Vote Democrat for only a House race
or
Pick one and submit an empty ballot (remember, Virginia does not permit write-ins in primary elections).

Sandra

11:32 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012

I find it ironic that the Republican party, which prides itself on championing individual rights over government, has used their power to create laws that force individuals to conform to their narrow minded ideological views. In particular, signing into law a mandate that forces women to undergo unnecessary ultrasounds (and yes, it could have even included "electronic rape" had the internal ultrasound measure passed). Republicans also champion religious liberty, as long as the religion in question looks suspiciously like right-wing fundamentalism (all other religions need not apply). Politicians like Marshall are stuck in the 1950's, and should realize that the majority of people have moved on and are willing to be much more tolerant of individual differences. I, for one, am not ever going to vote Republican as long as the right wing fundamentalists remain in control.

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T Ailshire

7:35 am on Thursday, June 7, 2012

Politicians like Bob Marshall are the reason so many who used to be Republicans are now eschewing both parties.

joe brewer

12:09 pm on Thursday, June 7, 2012

The gay prosecutor in question broke his sworn oath and that is enough reason to disqualify him in my book. What he does behind closed doors is his business and I Could care less but he should have been given a dishonable discharge! Tracy Thorne-Begland's unfit to be judge

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T Ailshire

12:38 pm on Thursday, June 7, 2012

But you didn't block the nomination. Bob Marshall didn't say "I blocked the nomination of a judge who broke a sworn oath." Instead, he takes great pride in saying he blocked the nomination of a gay judge.

He wants to be elected to federal office, where discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has been ruled discriminatory. We need federal legislators who understand the intrinsic worth of all types of people.

joe brewer

1:33 pm on Thursday, June 7, 2012

Call it what you will,Tracy was never a judge that I know of. Because he cannot be trusted with a sworn oath he has proven unfit to sit in judgement of others!

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Gary Jacobsen

10:07 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013

To learn about Bob Marshall, go to www.VirginiaHouseofDelegates.info on the Internet. Click on District 13. Then pass this link to your friends, especially women.

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joe brewer

10:37 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The loonies on the right that do not support gay marriage and a women's right to choose are part of the reason for the downfall of the GOP.
Tracy blew it and should not be a judge.

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Skip Endale

10:39 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013

"people now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things... you would be giving off more CO2 if you are riding a bike than driving in a car...i think the right approach is to accept this horribly created--in the sense of rape--but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you...rape victims should make the best of a bad situation...if its a legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting that whole thing down...when a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body. that's a big thing. Thats a big surgery. You don't have any other organs in your body that are bigger than that... feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society... America has to import so many workers because for the last 35 years we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce"
Quotes from the Party of NO.

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