Jeff E. Schapiro
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JUST IN: Ex-US Sen. John Warner, five-term
#Va
Republican who backed
@HillaryClinton
over
@realDonaldTrump
in ‘16, breaks w/ party again, endorsing
@JoeBiden
: ‘We’re going from an untested president to a thoroughly tested president. We’re not taking a gamble as we did w/ Trump.’
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US Sen.
@MarkWarner
, D-
#Va
, introduces legislation banning future federal government shutdowns. The bill's name - no kidding - the Stop STUPIDITY Act. STUPIDITY is an acronym for Shutdowns Transferring Unnecessary Pain and Inflicting Damage In The Coming Years. That's a mouthful.
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JUST IN:
#Va
House, 57-41, votes to end death penalty, following the Senate’s lead and ensuring Virginia becomes first Southern state to abolish capital punishment.
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Per
@bluevirginia
, public school systems maintaining masking requirements:
•Arlington
•Montgomery
•Fairfax
•Loudoun
•Henrico
•Richmond
•Alexandria
•Prince William
•Roanoke
•Pulaski
•Charlottesville
•Albemarle
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JUST IN: A key Virginia GOP state senator says he is willing to break ranks and vote to expand Medicaid
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And who says Republicans haven’t the nerve to buck
@GovernorVA
?
W/ 61 votes - including those of a dozen or so Rs - GOP-controlled
#Va
House rejects Youngkin rewrites to Democrat bill easing bond requirements for the poor.
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RIP Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Virginian who had a foot in four centuries. Was grandson of 10th US president, one born in 1790 and who died in 1862. LG Tyler was born in 1925 and died 26 Sept. at 95.
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“Democrats seized on the string of errors to question the competence of the Elections Department under
@GovernorVa
… who won the office last year on promises to bring ‘election integrity’ and his executive skills to state government.”
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BREAKING:
@GovernorVA
rules out run for ‘24 GOP presidential nomination, announcing his decision in California rather than at home, where crucial legislative elections this fall will shape the final half of his term.
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JUST IN: On
@GovernorVa
’s watch,
#Va
falls from No. 1 to No. 3 in
@CNBC
best-state-for-business ranking.
GlennYoungkin always said
#Va
’s economy was a ditch.
Guess he’ll blame the Democrats who were in power when the state was No. 1.
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“Being a jerk about
@SpeakerPelosi
is not the only
@GovernorVA
action of late that betrays who he really is and what he is willing to do in service of his ambition.”
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Just-out
@WasonCenter
poll shows
#Va
Democrats leading for all statewide offices.
Gov: McAuliffe-Youngkin, 50-41%
LG: Ayala-Sears, 52-42%
AG: Herring-Miyares, 53-41%
800 registered, likely voters interviewed Aug. 15-23, via landline and mobile.
Margin of error +/-3.6%.
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“First, we were told there was no problem. Then we were told it was small, contained problem. Now we’re told it is a massive problem, with numbers large enough to swing control of the General Assembly.”
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Say this for
@timkaine
: When he drives in the shiv, he always does so with a smile on his face.
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School superintendents warn
@GovernorVa
his push to ban race-teaching will “set public education Virginia back many years.”
In a letter, 133 Virginia school superintendents chided Youngkin’s education department over its audit that broadly scrapped diversity resources offered by the state. They said the report could “set public education Virginia back many years,” protested not being consulted.
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In response to
#shutdown
, US Sen.
@MarkWarner
, D-VA, introduces legislation protecting federal employees from action by landlords, creditors to collect outstanding bills that workers can't pay because they're not being paid by the government.
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.
@TommyNorment
,
#Va
Senate leader, gives voice publicly to what Republican have said privately:
@GovernorVA
is distracted by presidential ambitions:
“I am hopeful he will intensify his focus on the commonwealth’s issues.”
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Ex-US Sen. John Warner, a Repub who has often broken w/ his party, endorses Democrat
@RepSpanberger
for second term in
#Rva
suburbs-anchored
#Va07
: ‘Like this old Senator did, Abigail Spanberger fights to seek bipartisan solutions and to always put Virginia's interests first.’
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.
@SenLouiseLucas
:
@GovernorVA
“overstepping his constitutional authority in an attempt to whitewash the history our children learn at school.”
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Republican ex-Sen John Warner, in statement relayed by Democratic successor
@MarkWarner
, favors witnesses in
#TrumpTrial
because, ‘I believe, as I am sure you do, that not only is the President on trial, but in many ways, so is the Senate itself.’
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.
@RepSpanberger
backed - again - by traditionally Republican business group whose support of Democrats enrages the GOP.
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“
@GovernorVA
’s inability to deliver two of the three competitive congressional races in his own state pokes holes in the notion that the governor appealed equally to Trump fans and suburban moderates.”
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RIP John W. Warner. Ex-US senator, contrarian centrist Republican, national security hawk and former husband of Liz Taylor died last night, per former and current Senate staffers. Warner, who represented
#Va
from 1979 until 2009, was 94.
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Another ‘brick’ in that wall
@SenLouiseLucas
says will stop
@GovernorVa
on abortion restrictions.
It’s official:
@AaronRouseVaBch
is sworn in and Dems have a 22-18 edge in Virginia Senate.
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But is campaign over for
@GovernorVA
?
He keeps playing to Fox, Sinclair & other conservative news outlets. He
he can’t even run for re-elex.
Plus, those consultants to whom Youngkin paid gazillions are amplifying his message du jour.
Maybe audience is beyond
#Va
’s borders.
Somebody wanna tell
@washingtonpost
that the
#VAgov
campaign is over and there is no longer political utility in furiously running a negative
@GlennYoungkin
op-ed and story every. single. day?
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“
@GovernorVA
has manufactured a crisis in K-12 education that does not exist. In this fictitious narrative, he is the hero, teachers and school boards are the villains, White children are the victims, and racist parents are his foot soldiers.”
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This from the guy who launched a snitch line to out supposedly woke teachers; suggested LGBTQ kids are a disruptive minority; pushed to rewrite
#Va
history b/c some it apparently made white people uncomfortable.
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“
@LarrySabato
’s tone has changed in recent years, he said in an interview Friday. There are two reasons why — Trump and the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, which he called a watershed moment in American history.”
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“Cyber bullying of the worst kind.”
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Maskless
@GovernorVA
ambushed on-camera in hostile territory - very blue Alexandria - by masked Northern Virginian.
While promoting his plan to eliminate grocery taxes, a customer strongly expressed disapproval over a maskless Youngkin.
"Governor, where is your mask?"
"We're all making choices today."
"Yeah, look around you governor, you're in Alexandria. Read the room buddy!"
@wusa
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Another reminder this is not your father’s - or grandfather’s -
#Va
: On 54-45 party-line vote, House approves collective bargaining for public employees.
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URGENT
@AGMarkHerring
expected, per D source, to demand
#Northam
quit as
@GovernorVA
. Herring, running for governor in 2021, will pledge 'complete support' to
@LGJustinFairfax
, should he become chief executive.
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More Trumpian alternative facts from
@GovernorVA
- this time, on schools?
“A WaPost analysis of the report, though, suggests its use of data is misleading, and shows
#Va
students performed at least as well as or better than students nationwide.”
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And
@GovernorVa
is supposed to be a classy guy?
Says of assault on
@SpeakerPelosi
's husband: “There’s no room for violence anywhere, but we’re gonna send her back to be with him in California. That’s what we’re going to go do.”
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This is practically an Olympic sport,
@ratemyskyperoom
. Perhaps I’m a contenda?
Good double bookcase set up. We are pro transom. Raise camera a fair amount. 8/10
@RTDSchapiro
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UPDATING: Proposed
#Glenn
-dome on indefinite hold - casualty of
@GovernorVa
’s shrill attack on Democrats,
@POTUS
.
Budget Cmte chair
@SenLouiseLucas
says
@GlennYoungkin
not operating in ‘good faith;’ that his plan ‘not ready for prime time.’
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More
@WasonCenter
poll, which shows
@GovernorVA
to right of many voters:
-63% favor race/teaching; 58% oppose CRT ban.
-56% say school mask ban should be driven by data, experts; 41% would let parents decide.
-66% say climate change should be high, medium priority for Youngkin.
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“To deny [people in the community] jobs because you're in last place in Republican presidential primaries [is] gubernatorial malpractice.”
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BREAKING In wake of health care vote in DC,
@GovernorVa
to seek authority to implement Medicaid-for-Obamacare. Requires tweak to
#Va
budget.
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Ex-
#Va
elex chief counters, “For the Governor to disparage the work of the previous administration to score political points & deflect from the responsibility of his own administration for this error is truly troubling, & I refuse to take it lying down.”
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“A
@GlennYoungkin
aide said later that the
@GovernorVA
wasn’t making a definitive commitment to serve his full term.”
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URGENT
#Va
Senate poised to approve Medicaid expansion, rejecting, 22-18, last-ditch bid by Republicans to adopt budget without largely federally financed health care fix. Three Republicans defect: Hanger, Wagner, Chafin.
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“The new poll suggests Virginia’s parents might be turning away from the message.”
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On
@maddow
,
#Va
’s
@MarkWarner
, ranking D on Senate Intel Cmte, repeats demand Barr w/draw as
@realDonaldTrump
AG nominee, citing Barr’s opposition to
#Mueller
investigation and memo he submitted to WH saying as much.
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A reminder this
#Va
governor - a conservative culture warrior comporting himself as a centrist problem-solver - practices politics as theater:
#TheGlennYoungkinShow
When Governor Youngkin promised to bring back the Spirit of Virginia, we didn't think he’d go this far…
#MarchMadness
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Mask requirement the
@GovernorVA
’s kids but not for yours?
Georgetown Prep requires masks, vaccinations, AND they went virtual for a week in December. They also require weekly testing of any unvaccinated students, as well as testing of any student returning to campus. Weird that
@GlennYoungkin
wants that for HIS kids, but not yours.
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“Before
@yestoyesli
” - a critic of
@POTUS
student-loan bailout - “decried ‘reckless’ spending, she had $96K in student loans, debts cleared in personal bankruptcy.”
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Editorial pages across
#Va
are troubled, if not angry, over
@GovernorVA
’s war on alleged wokeness in public schools.
But rather than retreat, Youngkin charges ahead, satiating the GOP base and interpreting criticism as confirmation he’s on the - ahem - right course.
Virginian-Pilot Editorial:
Putting the state in the role of policing history in the classroom is a deeply troubling prospect.
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JUST IN
@GovernorVA
vows to veto GOP-written House redistricting do-over, signaling that he wants federal court to redraw map it threw out in June as racially gerrymandered.
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.
@MarkHerringVa
joins nearly 20 AGs in federal lawsuit challenging
@realDonaldTrump
's 'heartless, lawless' decision to pull $ for O'care.
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.
@TheEconomist
on
#WHCA
dinner: "The only person owed an apology here is Ms Wolf, for being scolded by the very people who invited her to speak, and who purport to defend a “vigorous and free press'" via
@TheEconomist
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“It’s really kind of a punch in the gut… He’s supposedly for Virginians and their rights, but we’re not seeing it with this bill.”
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To some in the outside world,
@GovernorVA
is behaving as he signaled he wouldn’t:
“As w/ Trump five years ago, Youngkin has deliberately chosen to begin his tenure w/ a divisive tone. This should worry not only Virginians, but also Republicans.”
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Today’s birthday:
@SenLouiseLucas
- Portsmouth Democrat,
#Va
Senate president pro tempore,
@GovernorVA
tormentor.
Lucas is 79.
Best wishes, many happy returns of the day.
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.
@RepLizCheney
backs
@RepSpanberger
: “Abigail’s opponent is promoting conspiracy theories, denying election outcomes she disagrees with, and defending the indefensible. We need our elected leaders to be honest, serious, and responsible.”
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At
#Jamestown400
, historian Jon Meacham - in lead-in to
@realDonaldTrump
remarks - says, ‘We don’t tend to build monuments to people who build walls. We build monuments to people who open doors.’
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To right-leaning TV station,
@GovernorVA
says teachers should out gay, trans kids to their parents:
‘Parents should be informed on all aspects of their children's lives. And it's an obligation of our school system & teachers in order to do that.’
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“
@GovernorVA
has vetoed more bills in one year than any other modern Virginia governor vetoed in his four-year term.”
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Virginia is for lovers - of liberty, freedom, democracy, tolerance, diversity, justice…
A family evacuated from Afghanistan arrives at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
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Never mind 41 of them voted for the measure this winter:
All 52
#Va
House Rs vote to affirm
@GovernorVa
’s veto of Democrat-written medical-debt forgiveness legislation.
It passed the
#Va
Senate unanimously and was endorsed by GOP AG
@JasonMiyaresVA
.
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Could
@timkaine
be nudging
@GovernorVA
to resign? Describing racist picture of Northam as 'horrible,' Kaine says, 'I hope the governor... now takes the time to listen to those he has hurt and reflect on how to move forward.'
#Northam
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RIP Shawn Soares, 26 - clean energy advocate, former legislative and gubernatorial aide and
#Va
Democratic activist.
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.
@GovernorVa
- a ‘24 prez prospect narrowly elected as advocate for what he calls ‘parents rights’ - gets to tell natl audience what that means, including his alleged whitewash of
#Va
’s troubled racial history and his support of book banners.
JUST ANNOUNCED: CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent
@JakeTapper
will moderate an education-focused
@CNN
Town Hall with
@GovernorVA
in front of a live studio audience on Thursday, March 9 at 9pmET. More here:
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“
@GovernorVA
made broad assertions about the election he won by about 2 percentage points. For example, he again said that he ‘won the Latino vote’ and ‘won the Asian vote.’ Exit polls indicated that Democrat
@TerryMcAuliffe
carried both groups.”
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Would note
@GovernorVa
’s attack on racial-equity component of public school curricula comes amid polling that suggests Youngkin’s got it wrong.
Latest
@WasonCenter
survey shows 63% of
#Va
voters favor race-teaching, 58% oppose Youngkin’s declared ban on Critical Race Theory.
'The memo broadly rejects affirmative action, suggests historic discrimination in education may not be to blame for disparate outcomes among students of color, & rejects the idea white people might unwittingly benefit from systemic racism.'
via
@rtdnews
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“If national Republicans continue to show they won’t govern, why would Virginia Republicans be any different?"
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“I’m just dumbfounded that the governor would veto legislation carried by leaders in both chambers without a single no vote.”
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If this kid is fair game for
@GovernorVA
’s operatives for participating in politics, then isn’t Youngkin’s son for trying to participate in politics?
The underage lad attempted 2X to vote for his dad.
Youngkin howled about press coverage, saying his family left alone.
Statement from
@MattWolking
of
@AxiomStrategies
, who managed Youngkin’s campaign. Ethan says he’s volunteered for the Dem Party of Virgina and elected Dems (and is a current unpaid intern for Sen. Scott Surrovell) but has never been paid for the work. Says Tweets are his own.
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Funny thing:
@GovernorVa
doesn’t remind folks that on his watch at
@OneCarlyle
, the firm purchased the Chinese firm that runs TikTok. Nor does
@GlennYoungkin
talk about the seven-figure donation he took from one of the controversial digital platform’s biggest shareholders.
The Chinese Communist Party—America's number one enemy—would love nothing more than to continue brainwashing the minds of our children through apps like TikTok.
@GovernorVA
's move to shield minors from this harmful influence marks a vital step in safeguarding their well-being.
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Republican incumbent Siobhan Dunnavant concedes Henrico-anchored
#Va
Senate seat to Debra Rodman, giving Democrats 22 seats to 18 for GOP.
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.
@GovernorVa
pick for historic landmarks board: “This whole tragedy is that these statues were built to tell the true story of the American South to people 500 years from now.”
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So maybe we’re looking at a FOURTH major lawsuit against the rookie
@GovernorVa
- this one challenging his end run in the
#Va
FOIA?
FWIW, Jeff called this correctly a week ago.
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“Nearly half of
#Va
’s registered voters cast ballots Tuesday, a record for midterm elections without a U.S. Senate seat on the ballot.”
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Lifting the veil on the complex relationship between Jefferson, who enslaved more than 600 people, and John Hemings, the finish carpenter who carried out his enslaver’s wishes in walnut, poplar and pine.
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.
@devin_omalley
- comms guy for
#Va
Gov-elect
@GlennYoungkin
- ID’ed to congressional investigators as among Trump administration aides who blocked fedl health experts from updating public on
#covid19
threat.
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.
@GovernorVa
’s own Big Lie?
“Asked… whether it was wrong to say the Biden administration called parents terrorists, Youngkin seemed to double down on his criticism.
“‘I believe they did. I think the Department of Justice was investigating parents.’”
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“Cale Jaffe, director of the University of Virginia School of Law’s Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic, said Youngkin can’t do that by executive order because of the way state laws authorizing participation are written.”
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UPDATING
#Va
emergency worker tests positive for
#coronavirus
-
@GovernorVA
bans events over 100 people statewide
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Good Thursday morning! An
@RTDNEWS
front page that, most assuredly, qualifies as a first draft of history.
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So
@GovernorVa
, with his eye on something bigger than
#Rva
, finds time to mingle in
#DC
with the national press.
Barely spends any time back home with the ones who brung him.
And he doesn’t think anyone notices? Maybe he doesn’t care.
While I'm not in step with him politically, I met
@GlennYoungkin
at the
#WHCD
@whca
I'll tell you, he's good dude. Didn't have to say hi as we passed and thanked me for what I do. He didn't know me from Adam but he's not my enemy. Maybe this is how we get back to common ground!
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Meantime, IT problems at
@GovernorVa
-controlled election agency mean thousands of Virginians are getting letters directing them to the wrong voting stations.
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UPDATING: Democrat
@timkaine
announces for third term in US Senate in ‘24, declaring himself a ‘servant.’
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But
#Va
’s economy is in a ditch, insists GOP Gov-elect
@GlennYoungkin
.
🚨🎉 Virginia's unemployment rate is now 3.6%—the lowest in the mid-Atlantic and a full point lower than the national rate.
This is the result of careful fiscal management and our work to make Virginia a welcoming and open place. Let's keep it up.
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JUST IN: Citing McConnell Precedent,
@timkaine
, seeking second term, joins Senate Democrats in demanding delay on Kennedy SCOTUS pick until after 2018 election.
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.
@cavalierdaily
:
@GovernorVA
pick for
@UVA
oversight board organized - as a student in the 1970s - an appearance by a Nobel laureate who claimed Black people were intellectually inferior.
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JUST IN:
@GovernorVA
says he favors court-directed extension of voter-registration deadline because he hasn’t the authority to order one.
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Another sign
@GovernorVa
's pick of Trump EPA head Andrew Wheeler as nat res sec likely doomed:
Wheeler's been that by
@CreighDeeds
, head of Senate cmte that vets noms.
'I have spoken w/ him personally and advised him in simple terms that I expect his nomination to be defeated.'
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“Democrats need a strong showing from the party’s younger voters, said
@notlarrysabto
, adding, ‘If this is an election decided by senior citizens,
@GovernorVA
will take total control.’”
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Just out
@WasonCenter
poll: Democrats favored in four races that could decide control of
#Va
Senate, including Republican-held seats in Chesterfield, Henrico and open seats vacated by Republicans in Loudoun, Virginia Beach.
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‘That is baloney,’ says
@GoadGatsby
as
#RPD
arrest him for allegedly ‘obstructing free passage.’
Richmond police have arrested a local activist who is prominent for his role in documenting instances of police misconduct during protests. The officers in the video below say they had a warrant for his arrest for "obstructing free passage."
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Call it the
@GlennYoungkin
Effect: “This is about putting the fear of God into teachers and administrators.”
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