Senate Candidate Dunnavant (VA-12) DENIES McEachin’s Story Says Janis and McEachin Working Together Against Her.

Dear lord. This is better than a Soap Opera. If you don’t listen to the John Fredericks radio show, you missed it.

Yesterday VaRight! wrote about a story where State Senator Donald McEachin claimed that Republican Candidate for the 12th Senatorial District Siobhan Stolle Dunnavant met with Don along with Democratic Senator Dick Saslaw and a third unnamed Democrat Senator. According to McEachin, Dunnavant was exploring a possible run in the 12th as a Democrat. McEachin claims that they discussed Dunnavant’s support for expanding Medicaid under the Marketplace Virginia rouse hammered together by several liberal state senators to expand Medicaid. Pretty much lipstick on a pig. So while Dunnavant supported a Medicaid expansion, she was pro life (according to McEachin). Don said they could live with that.

Dunnavant appeared on the John Fredericks show this morning and admitted she attended the meeting, but said it was a “courtesy” to the Democrats, not, as McEachin put it a “nomination seeking” meeting. She had no answer when asked by Fredericks why she would even have a courtesy meeting other than to say her brother and Va Beach sheriff Ken Stolle set it up.

But Dunnavant denied ever seeking the Democratic nomination, denied McEachin’s assertion that they even discussed committee assignments should she win.

But when asked by Fredericks if McEachin was lying, she refused to say that, saying he was mistaken.

And then she said the real story is that fellow candidate for the Republican nomination Bill Janis was working with Donald McEachin to torpedo her candidacy. And that was the story that should be reported.

Dunnavant also said that retiring Senator Walter Stosch had asked her to run. Stosch, you may recall, was a strong proponent of expanding Medicaid (and tax hikes over his career).

And the dust has not settled in this soap opera yet, and John Fredericks promised to get to the bottom of it.

(Cue the violins)

Is Donald McEachin lying about the subject of the meeting?

Will Dick Saslaw or the mysterious and yet unnamed third Democratic state senator confirm McEachin’s account? Or will they back Dunnavant?

Is Dunnavant falsely accusing Bill Janis of working with Donald McEachin? Or will either party admit an alliance.

And if there is an alliance between Janis and McEachin, would Republican Primary voters shun Janis?

Would Walter Stosch hand pick and endorse Dunnavant if she were not as squishy as Stosch has been?

All I can say is I’ll be tuning in to John Frederick’s show to find the answers to these and other important questions!

This saga has more twists and turns than an establishment Republican cover story.