<p>Adding to sabaray’s WashPost links: [Robert McCartney’s column](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-senate-leaders-message-to-helen-dragas-dont-mess-up-again/2013/01/16/9b52b22e-601a-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-senate-leaders-message-to-helen-dragas-dont-mess-up-again/2013/01/16/9b52b22e-601a-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html</a>) on Jan 16 has a good assessment of the business community’s support for Dragas toward the end of the article.</p>
<p>And I do not believe timing of the vote was coincidental: it was timed while students were distracted by returning from break & beginning the new semester.</p>