From Roanoke.com:

Democrat Jon Bowerbank of Russell County abruptly ended his campaign for lieutenant governor Friday and endorsed former state Secretary of Finance Jody Wagner, one of two remaining contenders in the party’s June 9 primary.

“Now simply wasn’t my time,” Bowerbank said in a statement announcing his withdrawal. “I resolutely believe, however, that my time will come. In the future I intend to again offer myself for public service. When that time comes, I will be prepared to run and to serve.”

Bowerbank, a businessman and member of the Russell County Board of Supervisors, had invested more than $900,000 of his own money in his campaign through the end of March. But, in pulling out of the race, he said obligations to his family and his business have become too great for him to continue.

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