Prince William Board Chairman Corey Stewart says he’s interested in running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim Webb.
In an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Republican says immigration and lowering government spending will be key issues in any senate campaign he would mount.
Representing the more than 400,000 residents in Prince William has also prepared him for the challenge, he said.
If Stewart runs, he would face former Republican Senator and Virginia Governor George Allen.
During the last senate election in 2006, Allen lost to Webb in Prince William County by 6,000 votes, and Stewart said he won his seat as chairman in a special Board of Supervisors election that same day by about the same number of votes –– proving his popularity with county residents, he said.
If he was selected as the Republican nominee, he would face another former Virginia governor, Timothy M. Kaine, who has spent the past two years as the head of the Democratic National Committee chairman.
Stewart told the Times-Dispatch he was not impressed with Kaine, and that voters would be “hard pressed” to find an accomplishment of Kaine’s from the time he was governor and during his time at DNC chairman.
Stewart is a trade lawyer who works in Washington and lives in Woodbridge.
He was elected to Prince William’s Board of County Supervisors as the Occoquan representative in 2003. Re-elected in 2007, Stewart quickly gained some national attention as he took the immigration fight to the streets of the county.
That year, the Board passed a resolution that allowed police to ask for the legal presence ID from anyone they suspected to be an illegal immigrant.
That policy was later amended weeks later to avoid possible racial profiling lawsuits, and now police are allowed to check immigration statues of only those who are arrested.
Stewart is also running for reelection to the County Board of Supervisor’s chairman’s seat.
Babur Lafeef, a Democrat and doctor from Woodbridge, is running against him.
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