Thirteen candidates who signed a pledge refusing to accept campaign cash from Virginia’s two big utilities won seats in the House of Delegates on Tuesday. Seven of those support prohibiting Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power from making political donations.
The pledge, signed by nearly 60 mostly Democratic House of Delegates candidates, made headlines earlier this year.
And in the traditionally business-friendly General Assembly, where no corporate concern has held more sway of late than Dominion, the state’s largest utility, an influx of Democratic lawmakers who see the company’s clout as excessive could augur a shift in debate on major issues during the legislative session next year.
