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AP INTERVIEW: HOWELL LABORED OVER REMAP RULING
By BOB LEWISAssociated Press 02/06/2013House Speaker Bill Howell is the last guy to go looking for a fight. But when the state Senate's 20 Republicans used ambush tactics to muscle a wholesale rewrite of Virginia's 40 Senate districts past the Senate's 20 Democrats on a day when a black Democratic senator was attending President Barack Obama's inauguration, it started a fight that came looking for Howell.