Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney is a 2016 candidate for mayor of Richmond.
Stoney was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth in 2014 by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. He resigned the post in April 2016 to run for mayor. Prior to that, he served as executive director of the Virginia Democratic Party and worked in a number of campaigns.
Stoney was born in 1981 in New York and later moved to Yorktown, Va. He graduated from James Madison University in 2004, where he was president of the student government.
Levar Stoney
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“I don’t get involved in the hiring and firing of police chiefs.”
“In Virginia, Black people are eight times (8X) more likely than white people to die of gun homicide.”
On conducting a national search for a new Richmond police chief.
Virginia has “lagged behind other states when it comes to (covid-19) testing.”
"Richmond was one of the only cities in the state that did not (increase) their real estate tax to those pre-recession rates."
On tax increases.
"Jack Berry voted for a plan to cut $23.8 million from our schools."
As executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia there were "300 people on my payroll in 2008."
Virginia’s banning of felons from voting is a "Jim Crow-era law."