Republican and Democratic General Assembly leaders found civility amid the acerbic political landscape created by Virginia’s mid-decade redistricting effort in Roanoke on Friday during Cardinal News’ third annual Cardinal Way: Civility Rules luncheon.
The good-natured and bipartisan exchange on a variety of topics between House of Delegates Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, and Minority Leader Terry Kilgore, R-Scott County, turned partisan only toward the end of the hourlong conversation, when a question about redistricting was posed.
Cardinal News’ founding editor Dwayne Yancey moderated the discussion as a room of about 120 attendees listened and joined in at times, over soup, salad and desserts at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke…