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« on: January 20, 2026, 01:37:12 pm »
 'Moderate' Abigail Spanberger Appoints Two Qatari Lobbyists To Serve on George Mason University Board
Former Reps. James Moran and Tom Davis lobbied lawmakers about ‘Qatar's higher education funding,’ foreign agent disclosures reveal

Chuck Ross
January 19, 2026

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D., Va.) has appointed two Qatari lobbyists to serve on George Mason University’s board of visitors, a Washington Free Beacon review has found.

Spanberger, who was sworn into office on Saturday, tapped former Reps. James Moran (D., Va.) and Tom Davis (R., Va.) to serve on George Mason’s 16-person board of visitors, which advises the school on "policy-making and oversight." After retiring from Congress in 2015, Moran launched Moran Global Strategies, which registered as a foreign agent of the Qatari embassy in April 2023. Davis, who resigned from Congress in 2008, is a lobbyist at Holland & Knight, which subcontracts with Moran’s firm on its Qatari lobbying contract.

Qatar, an oil-rich Gulf monarchy that harbors Hamas, has paid Moran’s firm $2.3 million through August 2025 to advance "bilateral relations" with the United States, according to foreign agent disclosures. Moran Global Strategies has, in turn, paid Holland & Knight $35,000 per month for its lobbying services. Davis is listed as Moran’s "principal point of contact" in the Qatari lobbying contract, records show.

The appointments are a sharp departure from the "moderate" image Spanberger presented to the public during the campaign.

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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2026, 01:37:55 pm »
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New Virginia Governor, Spanberger, moving at high speed to permanently radicalize and change the state. She campaigned as a moderate and lied through her teeth. Here, she appoints two Qatari lobbyists to George Mason board.
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2026, 02:11:49 pm »
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Screw any and all of you who lied to low information voters and sold Abigail Spanberger as some kind of moderate.

She’s been in office like 6 hours and is already trying to turn Virginia into Minneapolis.
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2026, 02:28:24 pm »
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Good job Virginia, do you think things are going to be more affordable now?

Democrats now control the legislature and Governor's office in Virginia.

Here are just a few of the bills they've introduced

- New 4.3% sales tax on Uber Eats, Amazon, etc deliveries.
- New sales tax on admissions to a wide variety of businesses.
- Create two new higher tax brackets of 8% and 10% on people making over $600K.
- A new 10% tax bracket for anyone making over $1M.
- 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes.
- Raise the hotel tax.
- New personal property tax on landscaping equipment.
- Ban gas powered leaf blowers.
- Guarantee illegal aliens free education.
- Make it illegal to approach somebody at an abortion clinic.
- Extend the time absentee ballots can be received after election day to three days
- Allow people to cast their votes electronically through the internet.
- Expand ranked-choice voting.
- Extend the deadline for ballot curing to one week after election day.
- Redact the addresses of political candidates from FOIAs.
- Add Virginia to the National Popular Vote Compact for presidential electors.
- Make it illegal to hand count ballots.
- "Assault weapons" and large capacity magazine ban.
- 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition.
- Prohibit outdoor shooting of a firearm on land less than 5 acres.
- Lower the criminal penalties for robbery.
- Ban the arrest of illegal aliens in courthouses.
- Remove mandatory minimum sentences.
- Allow localities to install speed cameras.
- Replace Columbus Day with "Indigenous Peoples Day."
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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2026, 02:55:49 pm »
GMU used to have an outstanding reputation among public universities. I suspect those days are over.
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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2026, 02:56:43 pm »
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« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2026, 02:58:21 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 20, 2026, 02:55:49 pm
GMU used to have an outstanding reputation among public universities. I suspect those days are over.

It's still a good school - my daughter is earning her Master's degree there.

But there's nothing good that the Left won't try to ruin.
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