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counties, Republican Senate can- didate Geary M. Higgins said his Democratic opponent, John J. Bell, “silenced these brave women and blocked a bipartisan, inde- pendent investigation” into the allegations. The state GOP repeated the message in a mailer that featured a white woman with a piece of tape over her mouth. Fairfax’s accusers are African American. Filler-Corn, the first woman to lead the Democratic caucus, has felt the emergence of women as a force in the General Assembly in Richmond, a Southern capital of- ten seen as an old boys’ club. When she was elected in 2010, she was the only mother in the House of Delegates with school- aged children. Today there is a nursing room, a parents caucus and at least one pregnant mem- ber, she said. At the fundraiser, one of the hosts, Bialos, stood under a tent between his wife, Kerman, and the three congresswoman, and said, “I have to say, I’m a little intimidated to be up here with these high-powered women.” “You’re right at home!” someone shouted over the laughter. Then he added, “And this is probably the future of elected politics.” [email protected]

Antonio Olivo and Scott Clement contributed to this report.

try and our district the place we want to live in and raise our children in,” she said. Spanberger, a former CIA agent, was working for an educa- tion nonprofit and had no plans to run for office in 2018. But she felt a sense of urgency to be part of the democratic process, she said, as Wexton interrupted and said, “For all good women to come to the aid of their country?” “Ha!” Spanberger laughed. Luria also carried a district that voted for Trump, and Wexton unseated Republican Barbara Comstock, a fixture in national GOP politics since the ’90s. The congresswomen have been campaigning for state candidates more than they might have if scandal had not weakened Northam, whose medical school yearbook page featured a racist photo, and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who was recently accused of sexual assault by two women who say the crimes took place in the early 2000s. (Fairfax says the encoun- ters were consensual.) Republicans are also targeting female voters. The GOP has been reminding voters that Democrats — including Wexton, Spanberger and Luria — called for Fairfax to resign but opposed calls from Republicans for the General As- sembly to hold public hearings into the sexual assault allegations. In an ad aimed at voters in Loudoun and Prince William

that Democrats flipped in the House that year, 11 were won by women who replaced men. Those women are all seeking reelection Tuesday. Asked what the president has to do with the historic gains Democrats have made, Spanberg- er said, “Nothing,” but she added that the 2016 presidential race motivated people to pay atten- tion. Wexton said women — and men — realized they could not count on politics to go their way without their participation. “This is our country and our lives, and we need take some ownership of it and step up and do everything to make our coun-

$137,000 from a newly created leadership committee. Their message is that Demo- crats can win, even in Republican districts. “Look, we did it,” said Span- berger, who unseated Rep. Dave Brat (R) in a suburban district outside Richmond that President Trump carried in 2016. “We’re tangible evidence when you want to make a change in your elected representation, no matter what the historic voting record is for your district, enough motivated people can make it happen.” In 2017, the first Virginia election after Trump’s election, a record 28 women were elected to the House of Delegates. Of 15 seats

ton Post-Schar School poll found
to be popular with female voters:
stricter gun laws, the Equal Rights
Amendment and a higher mini-
mum wage.
Luria, Spanberger and Wexton
were the main attraction at a
fundraiser earlier this week orga-
nized by House Minority Leader
Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax) to
boost candidates in the final days
of an “off-off year election,” when
turnout is typically lower than
elections featuring statewide or
presidential contests.
They arrived at the McLean
home of Leslie Kerman and Jeff
Bialos after late votes on Capitol
Hill and settled in for their first
joint interview since taking office
in January.
Spanberger wore a purple-and-
white scarf that traced the history
of women’s rights from the pas-
sage of the 19th Amendment,
which gave women the right to
vote, to the election of a historic
number of women to Congress.
The congresswomen have each
attended dozens of campaign
kickoffs, meet-and-greets and
fundraisers for legislative candi-
dates in their districts in recent
months.
Wexton, a former state senator
from Loudoun County, gave
$70,000 from her campaign cof-
fers to state and local candidates,
and Luria of Norfolk donated

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Passenger dies after crash in Woodbridge

An 85-year-old Woodbridge woman died after she was involved in a crash in Prince William County, officials said. The incident happened at about 8 a.m. Thursday near Minnieville Road and Fowke Lane in Woodbridge, according to Prince William County police. Maria Amparo Ruiz was a passenger in a Toyota Corolla when the driver of the car was crossing Minnieville Road and struck a pickup truck headed north. Ruiz was pronounced dead on the scene, and the drivers of both vehicles were hospitalized with serious injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation. — Dana Hedgpeth

MARYLAND

Quarantine issued on spotted lantern flies

Maryland’s Agriculture Department has issued a quarantine in an attempt to contain the spotted lantern fly in Cecil and Harford counties. The Baltimore Sun reported that the quarantine, announced Monday, restricts movement within the quarantine zone of regulated articles, such as construction waste or plants, that may contain the insect in any of its stages. An invasive species, spotted lantern flies feed on more than 70 types of plants and crops, from grapes and apples to oak and pine trees. — Associated Press

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BY OVETTA WIGGINS

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings,
the widow of Rep. Elijah E. Cum-
mings, said Thursday that she is
“thinking carefully” about wheth-
er she should run for the 7th
District seat her husband held for
more than two decades.
It is the first public comment
Rockeymoore Cummings has
made about her intentions since
Cummings (D-Md.) died Oct. 17.
“I love Baltimore City, the coun-
ties of the 7th Congressional Dis-
trict, and the state of Maryland,”
Rockeymoore Cummings said in a
text. “I’m deeply committed to
public service and I’m honored by
the widespread encouragement

I’ve received to continue Elijah’s amazing legacy. As I mourn the loss of my husband, I’m thinking carefully about the future and will make an announcement very soon.” A special election to select a successor to the congressman will be held in April. Rockeymoore Cummings is the chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party, serving in that role for nearly a year. In October 2017, she launched a bid for governor before dropping out of the race less than three months later. She cited “personal considerations.” At the time she ended her campaign, Elijah Cum- mings was being treated at Johns

Hopkins Hospital for a bacterial infection in his knee. Rockeymoore Cummings, a policy consultant, holds a doctorate in political science from Purdue Uni- versity and has more than two decades of experience working in the public and private sectors, including as chief of staff to then- Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), senior resident scholar for health and income security at the Nation- al Urban League, and vice president of research and programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. She started Global Policy Solutions, a social-change strategy firm, in 2005. Earlier this week, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) announced that the

primary election will be Feb. 4 and that a general election will be held April 28, the same day voters will head to polls to nominate candidates for the 2020 election. Del. Talmadge Branch (D-Balti- more City), the majority whip in the Maryland House of Delegates, said Thursday that he intends to run. Mark Gosnell, a Baltimore-ar- ea pulmonologist, has also announced he intends to run. At least eight other Democrats are considering candidacies, including both halves of the political- ly connected Mosby couple — Bal- timore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and Del. Nick J. Mosby (D-Baltimore City), close friends of the Cummingses.

Kweisi Mfume, a former head of the NAACP who held Cummings’s seat for a decade, plans to make an announcement Monday afternoon about his intentions. Other possible candidates in- clude former Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake; Del. Vanessa E. Atterbeary (D-How- ard), vice chair of the House Judici- ary Committee; and three Demo- cratic Baltimore state senators with years of community service: Sens. Jill P. Carter, Antonio L. Hayes and Cory V. McCray. Candidates have until Nov. 20 to file. [email protected]

Erin Cox contributed to this report.

Virginia Democrats pin hopes on suburban female voters

MARYLAND

Cummings’s widow ‘thinking carefully’ about seeking his seat

OLIVER CONTRERAS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.), seen at a Pride event in June, has given $70,000 from her campaign to state and local candidates.

BY DANA HEDGPETH

The video from a security cam-
era at a Maryland home shows
Jackson Champagne, 8, experienc-
ing a trick-or-treater’s worst Hal-
loween nightmare.
He goes onto the porch, ready to
help himself to a treat from the
homeowners’ self-serve candy
bowl. But there’s a problem: There
is no candy. Just an empty bowl.
“All gone,” the boy exclaims.
“There ain’t no more candy.”
The 24-second video shows
Jackson quickly reaching into his
own candy stash and pulling out
two handfuls of treats to put into
the bowl so that other trick-or-
treaters wouldn’t walk away emp-
ty-handed. His aunt responds:

“Awww. That was really nice, Jack- son.” Jackson’s Halloween kindness went viral after homeowner Leslie Hodges posted the clip from her security camera to Facebook, where it’s been viewed 4 million times. Jackson’s parents then reached out to Hodges on social media. Hodges said she put out the bowl because her husband, a Prince George’s County firefighter, had to work and she was taking their 3-year-old daughter out trick-or-treating. Her husband watched some of the live security camera footage and sent her a few cute videos of kids in costumes getting treats from their front porch.

Hodges said her husband sent her the video of Jackson and said, “You won’t believe this.” “He renewed the faith that there are still some good people out there,” Hodges said. Their daughter checked the bowl when she got back to their Gambrills home in Anne Arundel County to see whether there were any treats left. “Nope, someone got it,” she said of Jackson’s candy. Jackson’s dad, 27-year-old Ty Champagne, said no one knew what Jackson was doing in the moment, but he wasn’t surprised by his son’s good deed. “That’s the type of kid Jackson is. He’s always giving,” Champagne said. “He’s a very sweet, kind and soft-spoken kid. I’ve never seen a

moment where he acts out nega- tively toward humanity.” Hodges said she wanted Jack- son to “know how much he touched everyone.” After Jackson’s dad reached out on social media, she asked if they could give him candy, but his parents said it wasn’t necessary. Hodges then asked if they could buy him a gift card to his favorite store. The families plan to meet over the weekend so the Hodgeses can meet Jackson and give him a gift card to Target. Champagne said Jackson gives a box of his toys each year at the holidays to kids in need, and that Jackson and his dad had talked about giving more this season. Jackson enjoys Harry Potter, as

well as dancing and playing make- believe, his dad said. Friday morning, before Jackson went to school, Champagne told his son that some people might mention the video. His dad advised him to say thank you and not to “get a big head.” And if he felt like it, his dad advised, he could explain why he left his own candy in the empty bowl. Champagne said he asked his son why he did it, and Jackson responded, “For the kids after me.” Jackson was excited to go to school Friday after his new star- dom. “He’s a spotlight kid,” Cham- pagne said. “He’s meant for the camera.” [email protected]

MARYLAND

Empty candy bowl? A young trick-or-treater shares his own.

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