Denver Riggleman

Denver Riggleman, the Republican nominee for the 5th Congressional District, will visit Appomattox County businesses Friday.

This visit comes on the heels of a previous impromptu visit to Appomattox on July 21.

According to his campaign, Riggleman will be in Appomattox by 11 a.m. and will conduct a small business walking tour of downtown Appomattox.

Planned stops on the tour are Appomattox True Value Hardware, Appomattox Outdoor Equipment, Appomattox Glass and Auto-Mattox.

When the campaign was asked if Riggleman will be available to meet the public, it was revealed that he will be eating lunch at Bull Daddy’s Restaurant at 11 a.m.

The meet and greet held July 21 was at Rail Yard Restaurant.

John Hinkle, chairman of the Appomattox Republican Party, said about a dozen people showed up to the short-notice meeting. Riggleman had dinner and answered questions about his position on various topics. One of the issues discussed was the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Hinkle said that although Riggleman is pro-Trump on business, he’s anti-pipeline because of the eminent domain situation. The proposed pipeline was going to run through his 50-acre distillery property in Nelson County.

“Denver’s position is why do we need to take private property when we already have all these public right of ways that we can use for the pipeline,” Hinkle said.

According to Hinkle, they also talked about the Oct. 13 Appomattox Railroad Festival, where he and Corey Stewart, the Virginia Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, have promised to be.

Riggleman is visiting areas in the fifth district as part of his campaign for the November election, where he will face Democrat Leslie Cockburn in November.