Original sentence: After campaigning as a pragmatist, McDonnell was elected as the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, defeating state Senator Creigh Deeds by a seventeen point margin in the 2009 general election.However, McDonnell signed the bill into law notwithstanding those requests.In April 2010, McDonnell drew criticism from civil rights advocates when a draft policy proposal was mistakenly sent to 200 felons, informing them of his decision to make the restoration of their voting rights difficult by requiring a written essay from each applicant seeking to have those rights restored
Edited sentence: "   Abraham Foxman, the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League called the attacks against Malek unwarranted stating that "The Anti-Defamation League strongly believes that one mistake does not an anti-Semite make." The use of common performance standards counted for 20 points out of a possible 500 total points.After making the withdrawal announcement, McDonnell told reporters, "We can't go back.All the education leaders have a comfort level with those.However, McDonnell signed the bill into law.In April 2010, McDonnell drew criticism from prisoners rights advocates when a draft policy proposal was mistakenly sent to 200 felons, informing them of his decision to make the restoration of their voting rights difficult by requiring a written essay from each applicant seeking to have those rights restored.McDonnell did not believe that Virginia should apply for the second round because doing so would require the use  of multi-state education performance standards instead of Virginia's current standards.McDonnell was elected as the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, defeating state Senator Creigh Deeds by a seventeen point margin in the 2009 general election.McDonnell's camp solicited an endorsement from California Senator Diane Feinstein calling Malek "a man of high principle" who "has no bias of any kind whatsoever.On May 26, 2010, McDonnell withdrew Virginia from the second round of "Race to the Top" federal education funding.Our standards are much superior.So once again, a federal mandate to adopt a federal common core standard is just not something I can accept.They're validated.They're well accepted.Virginia had finished a "disappointing" 31st out of 41 states in the first round.We've been working on this for 15 years