John Reid had already been making it public for decades, but standing before a diner full of retirees earlier this month, the GOP nominee for Virginia lieutenant governor said it again.

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“I don’t want anybody to walk out of this room and think, ‘That guy was being deceptive,’” Reid, 54, told the crowd picking at their eggs and tater tots in Fairfax County last month. “I don’t think this is the number one thing about my candidacy, but everybody likes to talk behind my back.”

A former conservative talk-radio host and Capitol Hill aide, Reid says he would much rather focus on his long career in GOP politics or his hard-right stances on issues such as labor pol

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