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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: Sun, May 19, 2013

    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...



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