Mark Warner will always have John Chichester, but Gilmore has former Democratic Governor Doug Wilder:
So let’s recap. Doug Wilder, a Democrat who as Governor appointed Warner to lead the DPVA in 1993, considered the 2004 tax hike to be “broken promises” which ensured that “the voice of the hardworking taxpayer is hardly being heard in Richmond,” and angered him so much that he said he wouldn’t have endorsed Warner if he knew of it ahead of time.
Of course, there’s that little dig that Wilder did beat Chichester in ’85 for Lt. Governor… but who’s counting that?