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Written by Harry Minium for Virginian Pilot
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Sunday, 08 March 2009 00:00 |
She doesn’t plan =n making it a second career. Yet Sharon McDonald spent six weeks this winter as a lobbyist at the Virginia General Assembly and said she had a blast.
“I think I was pretty good at it,” McDonald said.
McDonald is Norfolk’s Commissioner of Revenue.
Her office assesses most local taxes, excluding real estate taxes, and helps residents file state income taxes.
But for the last two years, she’s also worked on behalf of the Commissioners of the Revenue Association of Virginia, trying to get more money for commissioners, who receive most of their funding from the state.
McDonald spent eight weeks in Richmond last year as the association’s president. She relinquished that title this year, but when Gov. Timothy M. Kaine proposed a 10 percent budget cut for all commissioners, the association asked McDonald to again lobby in Richmond.
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