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🚨🚨 Tomorrow (Wednesday) we will be releasing our annual SCORECARD! 🎉 Who do you think will come out on top in the House? One of these past winners, or someone new?!
3-time winner Simon
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2020 winner Hope
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I don’t have words right now for this rage. Senate just killed Medicaid expansion on a party-line vote. Virginia voters—your votes have been completely disrespected. Republicans still don’t care if you get sick and die in poverty.
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I’m so proud to be a Virginian today!
With over 13,000 comments in just the first day, & Virginians opposing Youngkin’s hateful & unlawful proposed transgender student policy by at least a 5:1 margin, Virginia says loud & clear that we will protect our transgender kids’ rights!
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Crazy how he’s willing to “face the nation,” yet he’s not willing to face the local Virginia press, so everything on his schedule is marked “Closed Press.”
SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE: Gov. Glenn Youngkin talks with
@costareports
on
@FaceTheNation
. Tune in at 10:30a E.T.
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Senator Howell tells Finance Secretary “In 30 years, I can count on one hand the number of complaints I’ve gotten about Virginia taxes. I get calls on a daily basis—every day—pleas for more and better government services.”
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Is this site broken, or has Youngkin actually still not said a word about a Richmond public school burning down?
I mean, I know he wants the public school *system* to burn to the ground, I just wouldn’t have thought he actually wanted the buildings themselves to burn down.
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Don’t let yourself forget for one second that these GOP legislators standing up over and over talking about the costs of groceries and gas and how hard it is on low-income people are the same GOP legislators who have for YEARS voted against raising minimum wages, paid leave, etc.
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Continuing the ableist trend today (R) Delegate Scott justifying his HB1040 to allow sub-minimum wage employment at small firms says: “Maybe someone with Down’s Syndrome just wants to get a job sweeping floors.”
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“Ethan’s mother, Karen Lynne, told Virginia Scope on Sunday afternoon that she has not heard anything from the Youngkin administration about the tweet, but she says she would like an apology.”
Sorry, “listen to parents” is just a gimmicky catch phrase, not his actual policy.
Mother responds to Youngkin’s campaign Twitter attack on her son
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In response to Dunnavant saying public school kids leaving for charter schools lowers class size at public school they left & raises performance there.
@SenLouiseLucas
says I have been here for 30 years. The problem has *always* been a lack of funding for reducing class sizes.
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Rachel Sutphin, whose father Corporal Eric Sutphin, was murdered by the last man executed in Virginia, William Morva, testifies on
@ssurovell
bill to repeal the death penalty: “The state would better spend their time and resources helping my family than killing another person.”
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I mean, if his wife emails him, sure, that’s private. But when he announced on the radio an email address for the public to send “tips” to, that is absolutely and obviously public and subject to FOIA.
If
@GlennYoungkin
wants to treat email to him as private letters than he shouldn’t hold public office.
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Literally the only thing worthwhile about Youngkin's State of the Commonwealth is watching
@SenLouiseLucas
's face throughout. (He's saying absolutely nothing of any substance, because that's exactly what he's accomplished in two years as Governor and all he'll do the next two.)
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@carterforva
says on House floor: “For thousands of Virginians, police are a source of violence in their lives, a constant source of violence in their lives, and *unpredictable* source of violence in their lives.”
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@SenLouiseLucas
opens Finance mtg saying she is NOT docketing the "half-baked Glenn dome," bc it places too much risk on the VA. "The more we use the reputation of the Commonwealth to finance billionaires' projects, the more we risk not being able to finance our own projects."
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Bill that would have allowed AG's office to usurp power from local prosecutors, taking over cases against their wishes, killed in Senate Judiciary:
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Senate says--with a bipartisan vote--no more tax breaks for the Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Trifecta for
@carterforva
in Senate today: 25-14 passage of worker cooperative bill. Tipped employee minimum wage bill passes 23-17. Insulin co-pay passes, after being amended in Senate to $50/month 24-16.
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By 52-47 vote, House votes to take away absentee ballot drop-boxes. These were incredibly useful throughout COVID and the USPS crises.
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🚨 🚨 The Public Comment period opened today for people to respond to Youngkin’s unlawful proposed policy for the treatment of transgender students Comments so far (by around 20:1) oppose. PLEASE make your voice heard!
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Senate Judiciary passes by indefinitely an attempt to bring back the death penalty in Virginia. Thank you
@VASenateDems
for being that brick wall! We are
#NotGoingBack
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I think
@carterforva
just passed his very first bill—to exempt from the definition of tipped employees those who cannot be tipped by federal laws. Congrats, Lee! 🎉
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If you’re scared of CRT, and the word “equity,” and books by Toni Morrison, and even just renaming streets, then you do not have the credibility to quote MLK Jr.—not today, not any day.
#ActionsSpeakLouder
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@JennMcClellanVA
speaking in opposition to SB739 which now allows any parent to opt their child out of mask rules, says “Our children and public health decisions have become political footballs. And we all lose.”
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For reference, .024% (that’s less than one quarter of one percent) of Virginians work in the coal industry. 100% of Virginians live on earth, breathe her air, experience her heat, her storms, her flooding and fires. 2% of Virginians are at risk *today* of coastal flooding.
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@DickSaslaw
to Finance Secretary: “I didn’t know there was anyone on the PLANET who still believed gasoline prices were determined by taxes, you must be the last one. The only thing affecting prices is what’s going on the Middle East.”
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Left
@SenLouiseLucas
a little special something. 😇
A place to store all the anti-abortion and anti-public education and racist and sexist and anti-LGBTQ+ bills her GOP peers keep sending her way.
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Woman testifying at House Ed committee on SB739: “As a nurse, I am *horrified* that a medical professional is carrying this bill. It is a threat to public safety.” Others also testify that it’s shocking an OB/gyn is here misrepresenting epidemiological data.
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HB1779 (
@carterforva
), filed today, would
#AbolishTheDeathPenalty
in Virginia. On the Senate side, matching SB449 (
@ssurovell
) was continued from last session.
Are we ready, Virginia?
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“No matter who you voted for, I pledge to be your advocate, your voice, your governor. We’ve… witnessed a rise in divisiveness…and distrust of public figures…Our politics have become too toxic.”
These words from your inaugural address ring empty, Gov. Youngkin.
Apologize.
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@CandiKingForHD2
speaks on House floor re: Youngkin’s anti-masking executive order, saying her own 11 yo daughter fights sickle-cell disease, and COVID could be a death sentence. “He claims to stand with parents, and yet ignores the pleas of parents all over the Commonwealth.”
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This is what happens when you elect a completely incompetent 🤡 who has no idea how to run a government. Is there a governing school somewhere we can send him to?
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In a few years, these amazing kids probably won’t remember most of what they learned in civics class. But they will always remember what they’re learning right now about how their government works, and how advocacy and civic engagement works.
"How can he stand there and say he loves this country and loves this state if he wants to hurt us?" --Casey Calabia, 17, a non-binary senior at McLean High School to
@GovernorVA
@mclean_gsa
@PrideLiberation
@wusa9
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Former Marine
@carterforva
says of claims MRAPs nec. for flood rescue “MRAPs have a very niche use: to roll over a land mine wo being killed. They’re not mobile, they’re incredibly expensive to keep running. Any time they tried to go over rough terrain, they would roll over.”
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Yikes! I’m hearing there was quite the kerfuffle at the Pocahontas Bldg this morning, as a swarm of those red-coated GOP “ladies” got their panties in a bunch over
@marcussimon
’s Little Banned Books Library, and harassed his administrative assistant!!
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“…I urge everyone to love your neighbor, listen to school principals…”
Psst! The Governor is gaslighting us. Pass it on!
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I feel like if a pandemic doesn’t merit drawing from Virginia’s “rainy day fund,” perhaps we should rename it the “bond rating protection fund?”
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I see y’all tweeting how excited you are that today is the day Virginia elects its first Black woman to Congress,
@JennMcClellanVA
. 😃🎉
But.
For those of us obsessively focused on the General Assembly, today is also the day we lose one of the smartest & best legislators. 😢🥃
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@SenLouiseLucas
, who chairs the committee that hears ANY abortion-related bills says on Senate floor today: "I hope this isn't the last anniversary of Roe v Wade. But know, for the majority of Virginians who want safe and legal access to abortions, that I have your back!"
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Not sure what happened, but there were at least 50 people testifying against SB739 (forcing in-person schooling and ending madk mandates at schools), but the only testimony in support of SB739 in House Education committee was from the Gov’s office.
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There are a stunning number of proposed budget amendments to spend taxpayer dollars on “education” to train workers for very specific jobs needed by very specific companies. Did you know that once upon a time companies actually spent their own profits to train their own workers?
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New VA School Superintendent Ballow comes to Senate Public Education subcommittee to testify for Kiggans “divisive concepts” teaching ban. Calls it a critical part of Youngkin’s Day One Plan.
That Day One Plan just ran into the Senate Dems brick wall. Rec PBI 2-1
#NotGoingBack
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HB153 from
@carterforva
would repeal Virginia's Right to Work law. Right to Work laws prevent union shop employers from requiring all employees join the union and pay dues, even though these employees are represented in collective bargaining by the union.
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@SenLouiseLucas
is standing in for LG Sears, who had a coughing fit and had to step out. She's without a mic, and has really only had to do this a handful of times throughout the last five years, but she's easily better at it, runs the floor much more smoothly, than Sears.
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DANG! Mother with heartbreaking tragic gun story tearfully testifying in support of
@VVforDelegate
HB590 to make it a crime to keep handguns unsecured around minors CALLS OUT Delegate March for not listening to her while she was testifying.
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When you look up the definition of petty in the dictionary, you see a picture of Youngkin vetoing a
@PriceForDel95
high school student athlete name, image, snd likeness bill that passed 96-0 in the House and 39-0 in the Senate.
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It's crazy how many thoughts and ideas someone has about how to run public schools when his kids attend private schools.
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Gas prices in Virginia down about $0.40 this week. Must be that gas tax holid—oh wait, no it’s totally not that, we didn’t pass that; it’s just the markets being the markets!
#Economics
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On 6-2 vote, House Crim Sub. votes to
#AbolishTheDeathPenalty
. On to full committee (perhaps later today)! Thank you patrons
@mikemullin4VA
and
@carterforva
for patroning this!
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GOP rejects every HB787 amendment that would ensure accurate history—the good & the bad—can be taught, despite claiming they want accurate history to be taught. This
@VVforDelegate
amndmt guarantees teachers can teach about Jim Crow laws. Wonder why people think they’re racist?
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@Lopez4VA
House floor speech: How can you teach why Mildred & Richard Loving couldn’t get married w/o being divisive? What do you do if folks don’t even see the problem? We can’t sugarcoat the sin of racism but we also can’t ignore the systemic racism is real & still felt today.
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“We are not overtaxed when we still have kids catching rain in schools with buckets.”
@SallyLHudson
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.
@carterforva
faces a Senate committee for the first time in his career. After a little light-hearted razzing, comes away with two successes in Senate P&E: 12-2 on HB88 and 12-0 on HB1421. (I feel like a proud mom! 😂)
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OOH! YES!
@VAHouseDems
asking for some accountability & transparency on Gov Youngkin's divisive concepts "snitch line," with a budget amendment making the "tips" they've received subject to disclosure through FOIA law, & one ensuring no taxpayer money is spent on such nonsense.
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This is VERY BAD. Reckless and dangerous.
BREAKING: Virginia Safety & Health Board voted to repeal the COVID workplace safety standards that have saved countless lives.
This comes after House GOP blocked reappointments to get an anti-worker, corporate-friendly board.
No way to sugarcoat this: people will die.
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Alternate title: AG admits he’s incapable of doing the job
(Maybe if he hadn’t engaged in mass firing of the entire office, there wouldn’t be so many brand new people starting from scratch trying to get to work, and they wouldn’t be falling behind?)
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Partisan 9-5 vote on
@AdamEbbin
bill to make it a crime to sell or possess a firearm whose serial number was filed off (no legitimate reason for that). This bill was even supported by VCDL and the NRA. How extreme do you have to be to vote against a bill THAT widely supported?!
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@C_Herring
says on House floor that Youngkin’s 30-day interim report (identifying for eliminations educational programs focusing on equity) was “a manifesto without any evidence; and the Superintendents thought so too.”
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Y’all.
Del Mark Cole used to CHAIR the House Privileges & Elections! He’s responsible for killing all good elections & campaign fin reform, & most of the voting restrictions & bad redistricting law we’ve worked to undo!
And he was just REMOVED from that committee assignment!!
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The notion that our perpetually underfunded public schools, where teachers not only have to buy supplies out of their underpaid salaries but sometimes toilet paper when the school runs out, just need COMPETITION from private schools to be better is the most insulting thing ever.
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@carterforva
takes dramatic step to move to discharge from committee (where it’s been held without docketing) his bill HB1755 (repealing “right to work”) to be taken up on the floor.
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But like, thank a REAL farmer, not just some millionaire who asks the County to have his “horse farm” designated as an agricultural district to avoid paying taxes on his 31+ acre Great Falls property.
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@carterforva
presents "Right to Work" repeal in House Labor & Commerce subcommittee. Says it has racist origins, and results in lower wages, higher workplace accidents. Long, long queue of people ready to speak in support.
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“He’s my governor too, I get to say what I want,” she says as she’s being manhandled by someone trying to shut her up.
#PowerToThePeople
Are Virginians no longer allowed to speak to their Governor in public without being accosted?
Unclear if that's state police or Governor's staff with the lady, but very inappropriate of them.
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@SenLouiseLucas
is doing an excellent job keeping a poker face during this State of the Commonwealth, which frankly sounds more like a high school valedictorian speech, but whatever.
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It’s laughable how often we have to discuss whether or not Critical Race Theory is or has ever been taught in Virginia schools while ALSO discussing the (allegedly universally-agreed on) importance of teaching kids critical thinking and hearing ideas that make them uncomfortable.
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@JennMcClellanVA
adds: What I hear is a desperate cry for fully funding k-12, which is one of the things businesses look at when deciding to come here. We have to consider: Are we meeting the healthcare and education needs of our families?
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FINALLY someone mentions this!
.
@JennMcClellanVA
: “The kids aren’t the only ones in the building. The kids may not be affected, but they are spreaders, and live in communities of vulnerable, at risk people.” Points out schools were already overcrowded, underfunded before COVID!
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@SallyLHudson
asks LaRock for practical advice on HB787: how he would answer—without being divisive of course—a student’s question about why nearly half of all incarcerated people are Black when they make up only 20% of the population. The little coward declines to answer.
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Senate kills
@DelegateMark
bill requiring law enforcement officers to report a fellow law enforcement officer who commits any crime while on duty, calling it too broad (including crimes not related to policing). 10-3
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Congratulations to
@SalimVASenate
on getting his first bill--and a difficult bill--passed in the Senate today, to change misdemeanor sentences to 364 days from a year to avoid potential deportation consequences!
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By comparison, here is Nancy Pelosi’s statement when GOP Congressman Scalise was wounded in 2017: “On days like today, there are no Democrats or Republicans, only Americans united in our hopes and prayers for the wounded.”
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“It’s way too complicated for us to write it into law,” says one of only three states NOT writing it into law. 🙄🙄
Virginia lawmakers still won't ban themselves from spending campaign cash on personal expenses, even though it's outlawed almost everywhere else in the country.
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LET’S GO!
This is actually a VERY important special election, a chance to flip a Virginia Senate seat. Important to pad the Dem majority, because we can’t always count on Sen Morrissey’s vote on abortion, and on a couple of other Dem. senators on other issues.
I’m excited to announce my campaign today for the Special Election in Virginia’s 7th Senate District. Are you ready to get to work to win this race? Join
#TeamRouse
today!
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@CandiKingForHD2
: “I’m speaking out for kids with sickle cell, with cancer. You are *lucky* if your child can come home & complain about her teacher wearing a mask. Enjoy your celebration, I pray that you’re right, if not the blood will be on your hands, of teachers & students.”
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@carterforva
after testimony against repealing "Right to Work": "Now that we've heard from EVERY corporate interest that has a lobbyist here..."
@delegatebagby
quips, "Oh, wait, there are a couple more behind you." Reports to Appropriations on 5-3 vote.
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🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️Actually, an executive order does not CODIFY anything. It's the legislature that codifies things by passing laws that alter the *code* of Virginia. Unbelievable that almost three years in this governor still needs more civics lessons.
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Student Nick DaSilva testifies for
@carterforva
bill, as a student how frustrating it is to know that the university he attends purchases goods made using incarcerated slave labor.
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Amazing to watch these Republicans who go on and on about stolen elections, and voter fraud and yadda yadda pushing for the Governor to literally undo the results of a fair and free election to elect Loudoun School Board members to a four-year term in 2019 in changes to HB1138.
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Does he have any planned stops in Virginia?
Asking for his 8 1/2 million constituents.
New Mexico, Oregon, Kansas, Nevada, Georgia - all planned stops for
@GovernorVA
in his continuing Republican presidential strip tease.
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My heart is with the House of Delegates today, as they are going through a whole lot of pain and sadness. Yesterday one of their family,
@mikemullin4VA
had a terrible loss of his baby. There are no words. 💔 Know that we love you and are holding you and your family in our hearts.
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Why give people second chances, parole, pardons, and restore voting rights?
@DonScott757
served a sentence for felony drug charges, had his voting rights restored by Republican Gov McDonnell, and now serves his community as Delegate and will serve Virginia as House Speaker.
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.
@carterforva
agrees to roll his bill abolishing the death penalty into
@mikemullin4VA
’s nearly identical bill. So HB2263 will be the one moving forward.
#AbolishTheDeathPenalty
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Sen Dunnavant moves to report, says “There is no reason that every woman would not know by twenty weeks that their baby had a catastrophic gestational anomaly.” (Despite a woman JUST testifying otherwise.)
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It may turn out to be really fortunate that
@VAHouseDems
&
@VASenateDems
passed same-day voter registration, enacted this election. Who’d have thought the Youngkin Admin might have a “glitch” in registering voters when around the country angry women are registering on mass? 🧐
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Despicable that Youngkin and Miyares did this. And I hope every person who voted for them understands that their *word* is worthless. They will reneg on any deal, go back on any promise.
20 yrs I watched in awe of the AMAZING father my husband is thru prison walls. Last Father's Day we celebrated the fact that he EARNED A 2ND CHANCE 2 be 18 mo's closer 2 being that father in PERSON. Today,he is still THAT amazing Dad, but
@GovernorVA
STOLE those 18 mos from him!
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Sen Morrissey says re: Governor making changes to HB1138 to shorten the terms of duly-elected Loudoun County School Board members: “The issue is not ‘let the voters decide’—they *did* decide! They decided on four-year terms.”
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“Let parents do our job, we know our children best,” testifies a mom in support of a bill to be notified by the school when a child identifies as a different gender. If you knew you child best, wouldn’t you already know this?
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And that’s what this has always been about. Don’t let yourself think this was about our communities’ health or welfare or our children’s’ safety or the quality of our public education system.
This was always about the political gain Republicans could get from a health crisis.
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Exactly!
@BarbaraFavola
makes the BEST argument why the decision on masking NEEDS to be left up to local school boards, not a statewide decision. For schools that DON’T have mitigation factors like ventilation etc, they need the flexibility to make a decision to keep masks.
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Secretary Gudera says we don’t need masks in schools because there are all sorts of mitigation tools like air filtration etc. Which is laughable to anyone who has ever seen the school infrastructure report that shows how many schools don’t even have A/C systems.
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Make no mistake—this is a declaration of WAR on women.
Virginia is ONE flipped Senate seat away from these passing. The time is yesterday to start caring about state politics, & putting in the work to make sure Democrats do not lose control of the General Assembly next year.
From
@ProChoice_VA
@PPAVirginia
@ProgressVA
: Virginia Republicans File Multiple Anti-Abortion Bills Leading Up to the 49th and Likely Final Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
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Surprising "wow" in the room as
@SenLouiseLucas
bill to prevent marijuana possession or use from being used (absent other conduct) to show child abuse or neglect reports unanimously in Senate Courts.
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Whoever voted to reneg on the earned sentence credit deal we made with these people in prison needs to go tell their families to their faces.
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Lesson in Youngkin’s ❄️ Virginia:
Student: Why hadn’t any Black kids been to public school in Alabama before 1963?
Teacher: I can’t tell you. Because someone is worried that if I told you, you might feel bad.
Student: Ok, I’ll just Google it on this cell phone my parents gave me.
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I see the GOP is moving forward with the war on women?
And a woman can be shamed and dragged through the mud by Republican peeping Toms for her own choices relating to her body?
Grab your red hooded capes, my friends. The GOP *will* tell you what you *may* do with your body.
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