Virginia and the Democratic agenda

[mystery-ak]

November 25, 2019
Virginia and the Democratic agenda
By James Stansbury

The Democrats may have turned Virginia blue, but the local media has reported little concerning the legislative agenda they will put forth in January 2020.  However, Victoria Cobb, President of the Virginia Family Foundation, is hot on the case.  Her November 18 email newsletter listed their first five bills:

    HJ 1 – Passage of the so-called “Equal Rights Amendment”
    HB 1 – Absentee voting for any reason in any election
    HB 2 – Restrictions on firearm purchases by law-abiding citizens
    HB 3 – Enshrining “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as specially protected classes in housing laws
    HB 4 – Legalizing full-scale casino gaming across Virginia

(Note that a state version of the Green New Deal was unnecessary because Gov. Ralph Northam already implemented one by Executive Order 43 this Sep. 16th.)

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[txradioguy]

It's the Californication of Virginia

[roamer_1]

HAHAHAHAHA!

My old eyes saw:

"Viagra and the Democratic agenda"

Old eyes are almost as much fun as old ears.

[Fishrrman]

You get the governance you vote for.
And Virginians are soon gonna get theirs -- good and hard.

[txradioguy]

You get the governance you vote for.
And Virginians are soon gonna get theirs -- good and hard.

It's a real shame that NOVA is going to ruing the state for the rest of the normal people that live there.

[sneakypete]

You get the governance you vote for.
And Virginians are soon gonna get theirs -- good and hard.

@Fishrrman

Not really true. The typical Virginian is conservative. The people you are talking about are refugees and immigrants from the left coast and the north east that now live in Virginia because it is closer to THEIR "Moscow",the "District of Comrades".

[jmyrlefuller]

In all fairness, the casino gambit is one that politicians on both sides of the aisle seem to support. They all look good when you see a topline number of jobs, but most of those jobs are terrible: minimum skill, minimum wage, no shift premium, nights, weekends, holidays. Certainly not the kind of jobs you need that make your community a better place. You'd have to be desperate to take that kind of work.

The casinos were a good idea when they were rare. Now everyone has one within 100 miles, it seems. The other problem is that most of the time, they decided to make them "resort casinos" with monopolies and no competition, meaning they have these huge facilities in the middle of nowhere. With the market nearing saturation, how much outside money are you going to draw anymore? People go to Vegas because there are dozens of resorts competing against each other. One singular, often race-based (in the case of Indian casinos) monopoly doesn't have that same draw.

I once was a believer in the casino idea. Then I wised up.

[Fishrrman]

Pete wrote:
"Not really true. The typical Virginian is conservative. The people you are talking about are refugees and immigrants from the left coast and the north east that now live in Virginia because it is closer to THEIR "Moscow",the "District of Comrades"."

Welcome to Illinois.
Welcome to New York State.
Perhaps similar to Washington State and Oregon, too (Seattle area and Portlandia).

In these places, a huge leftist-communist city/suburbia politically dominates the rest of the state.

The solution for Virginia:
Split off the northern part.
Merge it with Maryland.
Include d.c. as well.

Let southern Va. become the state of "Shenandoah".

[sneakypete]

Pete wrote:
"Not really true. The typical Virginian is conservative. The people you are talking about are refugees and immigrants from the left coast and the north east that now live in Virginia because it is closer to THEIR "Moscow",the "District of Comrades"."

Welcome to Illinois.
Welcome to New York State.
Perhaps similar to Washington State and Oregon, too (Seattle area and Portlandia).

In these places, a huge leftist-communist city/suburbia politically dominates the rest of the state.

The solution for Virginia:
Split off the northern part.
Merge it with Maryland.
Include d.c. as well.

Let southern Va. become the state of "Shenandoah".

@Fishrrman

I am guessing southern Virginia would be big fans of that suggestion,but all the federal dollars that come rolling into the Tidewater area in the form of military contracts and jobs,there is no way in hell the left is going to allow that to happen.