Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the putative Republican nominee for governor, will be the featured speaker at Virginia’s political rite of spring, the Shad Planking, on April 17.
Named for the bony, migratory fish that is slowly smoked on slabs of wood, the Shad Planking — in a stand of pine trees 4 miles outside of Wakefield — is more campaign event than cookout.
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This article first appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on March 19, 2013.