Centerfield

An Independent Republican

Charging RINO has the info on a Virginia centrist, Russ Potts

Potts, a four-term state senator and currently chairman of the Senate's Education and Health Committee, is a moderate Republican who supports womens' right to choose and has long decried what he calls the GOP's "drift to the right." In various newspaper articles he has been described as "irascible," a "prickly populist," "candid," "colorful and cantakerous" ... and he's running for governor.

Dissatisfied with the presumed GOP frontrunner, Jerry Kilgore, and Democrat Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine, Potts announced on February 25 that he would enter the campaign as an "Independent Republican." His announcement speech, available here, is a wonderful expression of a truly centrist agenda that transcends party lines in the name of good government and common sense policy.