Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is trying to ride a familiar Republican campaign slogan to victory in the governor’s race: no car tax.
Nearly 30 years after former Attorney General Jim Gilmore, a Republican, used the slogan to reach the Executive Mansion, Earle-Sears resurrected it in a brief speech to cheering volunteers before a campaign training session in Fairfax County last week.
Spanberger, who stepped down from Congress after three terms to run for governor, said through a campaign spokesman on Thursday that she, too, would like to get rid of the car tax by finding a bipartisan way to get it done.
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