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Steve Contorno

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Steve Contorno is the Virginia political correspondent for The Washington Examiner, covering state government and campaigns in a key battleground state. He joined the Examiner in 2011 after covering state politics and local government for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, winning statewide reporting awards. Prior to that, he interned for the Chicago Sun-Times in its statehouse bureau. Contorno holds a bachelor's degree in News-Editorial Journalism from the University of Illinois where he toiled at The Daily Illini for four years, and has a master's in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield.

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  • Va. officials formally nominate Cuccinelli for governor

    Steve Contorno

    Updated: 6 hr ago

    RICHMOND -- Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli officially accepted the Republican nomination for governor Saturday and immediately questioned whether his Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe, had the credentials needed to handle the state's top job. Thousands of diehard conservatives...

  • Jindal arrives in Virginia to boost Cuccinelli for governor

    Steve Contorno

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    RICHMOND, Va. – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal traveled to Virginia Friday to bolster the gubernatorial campaign of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and to introduce himself to voters in what is likely to be a critical swing state in the 2016 presidential election. Jindal was the keynote speaker...

  • Ken Cuccinelli rips President Obama's energy agenda

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli promised Thursday that battling President Obama over environmental policies would be a cornerstone of his energy agenda. Speaking at a power line manufacturer in the Virginia-Tennessee border town of Bristol, Cuccinelli...

  • Convention gives Virginia GOP chance to unite behind Ken Cuccinelli

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Republicans from across Virginia will gather in Richmond this weekend to officially anoint Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli as the party's nominee for governor and pick the rest of the ticket he will lead this fall. For Cuccinelli, the moment is more than a year and a half in the making, the...

  • Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling launches PAC to support 'mainstream' Republicans

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling announced plans on Wednesday to recruit and support "mainstream" Republicans to run for office in yet another move that undercuts his former rival, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Bolling, a one-time Republican candidate for governor, launched the Virginia...

  • Ken Cuccinelli won't represent Bob McDonnell in legal battle with ex-chef

    Steve Contorno

    Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli recused his office Wednesday from representing Gov. Bob McDonnell in the state's case against executive mansion chef Todd Schneider. In a letter sent Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General Ellen Porter appointed former state Attorney General Anthony...

  • Bob McDonnell approval dips, but Star Scientific scandal not a factor

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's approval rating is at it's lowest point in two years, but it's still at enviable heights, according to a new poll. More importantly for the Republican leader, an FBI investigation into his family's relationship with embattled Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams is...

  • Ken Cuccinelli touts jobs plan while Dems hit him on women's issues

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

    Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli visited a pair of Hampton Roads small businesses Tuesday to trumpet his new jobs plan -- a $1.4 billion income tax cut -- in the face of Democratic attacks against his record on women's health issues. Just days before the Republican nominating...

  • McDonnell wishes Boston bomber wasn't buried in Virginia

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

    Gov. Bob McDonnell said Monday he wished that one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing wasn't buried last week in a Virginia cemetery, but added there's nothing he can do about it. After a prolonged search to find a cemetery that would accept the remains of Tamerlan Tsarnaev,...

  • National Democrats target Virginia statehouse races

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    A handful of Northern Virginia House of Delegates races are being targeted by a national Democratic group as the starting point for its ambitious plans to win back state legislatures that are now in Republican hands. To bolster Republican chances in some of those races, former Gov. George...


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