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Virginia is now an abortion rights sanctuary. With your help, I’ll do everything within my power to keep it that way
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The session was a failure - we didn’t get the work done because a rookie Governor drove a divided General Assembly further apart rather than bringing legislators together. There, I said it
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This moment on the floor was amazing
“I don’t think there is a tip line set up for Black parents when our children’s feelings are hurt or they are harassed, or they are bullied about the texture of their hair or the color of their skin, the size of their nose, the size of their lips or where they live.”
-
@JeionWard
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To be fair, I may have watched it at least 100,000 times myself
Wow, 3.2 MILLION views already on this video of a woman telling Youngkin to "read the room buddy!" h/t
@LarrySabato
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What if there was a bill *called* the Supreme Court Security Act that protected Supreme Court Justices by banning assault rifles, raising the age to purchase firearms to 21, enhanced universal background checks, & provided uniform nationwide red flag laws - could we get a vote?
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Virginians strongly support access to safe and legal abortion. I am 100% committed to protecting abortion access in the Commonwealth. Democrats can and will ensure Virginia remains a safe haven in the south.
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Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms demanding action to end gun violence. Happy to work with you all to bring common sense gun safety legislation to Virginia.
@shannonrwatts
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No enthusiasm deficit in cobalt blue Fairfax County
The rain isn’t stopping these early voters! More than 1,700 voters have cast their ballots so far today with another 6 hours of
#earlyvoting
to go.
#VAGov
#GOTV
#VoteEarly
#EarlyVoting
#GOTV
#VirginiaElection
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With House Committees on hiatus while we wait for Speaker
@cToddGilbert
to refer Senate Bills, I had a little extra time on my hands this afternoon-
#Freadom
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Do your job America
If Trump cannot tell his supporters this is unacceptable & the GOP leadership will not tell him this is unacceptable then it’s up to the voters on November 6 to tell them all its unacceptable.
#Vote
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Please stop calling him a moderate. The
@GovernorVA
is a far right culture warrior intent on destroying public education so he can privatize it. The proof is in the appointments
.
@GovernorVa
reaches to Tennessee - a deep-red state and front line in the culture wars - for his second schools chief since taking office 14 months ago.
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Governor just asked the General Assembly to come together to ban abortion this session. Thank goodness for yesterday's special election results. There will be no bans in 2023. Virginia will remain a sanctuary in the south for abortion access and abortion rights.
#valeg
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Jason Miyares broke the law - either by accepting donations after the deadline or failing to report them when he received them. Anyone remember what happened to Crystal Mason when she tried to register vote because she thought she could?
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To understand what
@GovernorVA
is up to that the Board of Ed keeps stopping, understand that at his core he doesn’t believe in public ed & would privatize all of it. So it’s like having a pyromaniac in charge of the fire department-they’re happy to stand by and watch it all burn.
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Beginning July 1st prosecutors and police in Virginia won’t be able to take your stuff by alleging it was used in furtherance of or is the spoils of your criminal conduct unless they can actually convict you of a crime.
@GovernorVA
signed my HB1522 into law on Thursday!
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Big loss in court for
@GovernorVA
and
@JasonMiyaresVA
- as was obvious to many of us from
#Day1
, Court finds EO2 so obviously illegal it issues an injunction against enforcing oxymoronic “optional mandate”
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I have a bill to ban 3D printed and other “ghost” guns in Virginia. It’s up in subcommittee tomorrow morning . Sign up to speak or leave your written testimony here.
Happening right now in Richmond, Virginia, near the State Capitol.
This is why legislatures across the country must prohibit all firearms at state capitols, capitol grounds, polling and vote-counting facilities, and demonstrations on public property.
#valeg
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Heard
@GovernorVA
blaming localities’ policies for housing shortage yesterday. Maybe he’ll take his 7 parcels in Fairfax County out of “farm” use - start paying taxes on them and build houses on them - he can have as many houses as Dr. Oz.
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The Virginia House of Delegates just passed no excuse in person absentee voting.
#HB1
@C_Herring
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Waiting for my “conservative” colleagues to remember they hate executive overreach and start calling the new Governor “King Glenn” for legislating via EO- but not holding my breath
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You couldn’t even go one day, could you?
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What people forget or never got was SB1303 was introduced for the express purpose of limiting the Governor’s authority to make decisions for schools by EO. At the time it was the authority to close schools. Instead we left it to school boards as long as they follow CDC guidelines
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Virginians take note of what’s happening in Congress right now. This is what Republican rule looks like. If the GOP takes full control they’ll be completely beholden to the MAGA faction that wants to defund public schools and ban all abortions.
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Democrats have to be willing to use their power as ruthlessly and effectively as Republicans have over the last 50 years in Congress and state legislatures going forward
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Already receiving reports of voters showing up at wrong polling place as misdirected by
@GlennYoungkin
‘s Dept of Elex or showing up to find they don’t appear in poll book - despite receiving a letter saying they were registered. 844-482-8683 is
@vademocrats
Voter protect hotline
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Hanging out behind the stage at the
@TerryMcAuliffe
final rally with
@MomsDemand
founder
@shannonrwatts
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Needed this reunion at the end of this weekend. Ruby’s best friend has been away touring Europe for 10 weeks! He’s Back
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Moms Demand > NRA
@shannonrwatts
>
@DanaLoesh
In Virginia,
@JenniferWexton
beat one of the NRAs highest funded member congress by double digits and thanked
@MomsDemand
first thing.
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Starting a Civilian Potato Defense Force - who's with me?
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Virginia is and must remain a safe haven for abortion access in the south.
Virginia is one of 23 states allowing abortion via telehealth. Patients can consult with prescribers virtually and receive pills by mail
@pewtrusts
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Wow, I’ve been saying a for a while Gov Youngkin wasn’t ready for Prime Time, but didn’t expect him to literally prove me correct on the first workday of his tenure by holding his 1st State of the Commonwealth at 4 p.m.
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For someone who is 6’7”
@GovernorVA
turns out to be a really small person- judging by his actions at the deadline to deal with bills
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At over 16k comments in 24hrs we don't need to wait 29 days to know the politically-motivated, illegal new model policies for the treatment of trans kids
@GovernorVA
's hacks at the Dept of Ed sent down aren't going to fly. I call on the Governor to withdraw the new policies now
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Hearing
@GovernorVA
inability to
#ReadTheRoom
has him underwater in polls 1 month into his term. Anecdotally, my neighbors were telling me this weekend they were surprised he wasn’t governing from the center- thought he’d be “different” once he was elected. Lots of voter remorse
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Virginia DOES NOT SIGNATURE MATCH- don’t let this concern deter you from voting safely and early
@marcussimon
I voted early in person, since I don't trust my 20 year old signature to match my current signature. But after election, will go update and plan to vote by mail in future.
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As I’ve said-Youngkin has been a huge disappointment- moderate voters have massive buyers remorse & are abandoning GOP candidates after being victims of a bait and switch where they got a book-banning, kid-bullying, history-rewriting, snitch-line-making, FOX Newsy, MAGA Governor
Here's another way to frame this question: All 3 GOP candidates under-performed Youngkin. The question is: Which one under-performed the least?
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The
@GovernorVA
’s administration’s defense: “We aren’t evil, we’re just really bad at our job.”
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Does this mean the Governor will move to Richmond?
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I’ve been waiting for this one! Biggest of the
#curseoftheredvest
call of all
@KariLake
-
@GlennYoungkin
will be hoping we all forget how hard he went to bat for Trumpy MAGA election deniers like Lake in
#Valeg
elections this year. Will we will let him?
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The replies are extra ugly and vulgar today.
@GlennYoungkin
supporters in a very bad mood this weekend for some reason. They are coming off the jubilation of inaugural weekend like a bunch of over sugared toddlers after a raucous birthday party.
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This is why I can’t be in Jamestown. I can’t let the President define the significance of my presence in his company. Here he seems to be saying “see, I can’t be a racist. If I were, why would all these Inner City [sic] Pastors be willing to meet with me?”
Looking forward to my meeting at 2:00 P.M. with wonderful Inner City Pastors!
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Trying to have a relaxing day at the beach but
@GovernorVA
keeps saying stupid stuff 🤦🏻♂️
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Glad to have joined
@CNN
‘s
@evamckend
for an interview yesterday, (part of which aired on
@jaketapper
The Lead tonight) talking about
@GovernorVA
‘s awful start and Orwellian authoritarian “tip line” to snitch on teachers
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This is an infuriatingly lazy take by DC types who aren't paying attention. Dems already outlawed gerrymandering this session. When has any part ever taken control of a state legislature and then immediately made it illegal to draw districts to their own political advantage?
Do Democrats go for bipartisan redistricting, or stick it to GOP as GOP previously stuck it to them?
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Today many Virginians will, for the 1st time ever, have the opportunity to vote on Sunday- thanks to legislation passed by
@VAHouseDems
, championed by the
@VaBlackCaucus
& sponsored by chair
@delegatebagby
- if you haven’t yet voted, consider being part of history & vote today
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Radical Terrorists
Here's another thread documenting plans for violence by the alt-right "free speech" crew.
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Can’t seem to turn away from the news in Ukraine 🇺🇦- I’m both in awe of their bravery and patriotic commitment to protect their Democracy and heartbroken for them as I contemplate the dark days that lay ahead
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Believe it or not, Virginia has never had a law making it explicitly illegal for police to have sex with someone in custody. That finally changes effective today thanks to
@KarrieKDelaney
‘s bill from the 2020 Special Session
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@shannonrwatts
The
@vahousegop
tried to stop is from making it a felony to recklessly leave a loaded gun where a child has easy access to it this week. When they claimed we didn’t know what the bill did, I snapped
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Obviously the Governor-elect is struggling to fill out his cabinet- way behind his predecessors with only weeks to go before he takes office- but scraping Trump's EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler from the bottom of the barrel is completely unacceptable. He cannot be confirmed
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If you find yourself staring at that absentee ballot you stuck to the front of the fridge this morning but forgot to mail back - do not put it in mailbox- return it to a Dropbox- every polling place will have one today. Skip the line and drop it in
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It’s a really good thing we have same day voter registration in Virginia this year. If you go to check your registration & can’t find it for some reason (Youngkin’s Dept of Elex has screws things up royally) you should still show up & vote on 11/8 - we can fix it on the spot now
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Why can’t the Youngkin Admin tell the truth? “A Washington Post 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 over the past several years.”
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Looks like a great night for
@AaronRouseVaBch
&
@HollySeiboldVA
& another no-good-very-bad night for
@GlennYoungkin
and his cursed red vest. Congratulations to the candidates, campaign staff and volunteers who worked so hard.
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This is simply false. 49% of Virginia voters rejected him and his divisive campaign rhetoric. The fact that the Governor is behaving as if he won by a landslide and is ignoring (unless he’s trolling) Virginians who didn’t vote for him is a huge part of his problem
In our interview,
@GovernorVA
pushes back against accusations of excessive partisanship:
“I know change is hard, I get that,” he said, “but voters came together in a way they haven’t done in a long, long time.”
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Who could have predicted we wouldn’t get our work done by the end of session? Maybe If the Governor had spent less time celebrating and more time working with legislators. . .
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Every polling place in Virginia has a drop box for completed absentee ballots. If you received one in the mail but didn’t want to mail it back you can drop it off before the polls close at 7
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Overhead outside my GA office just now as a group of elementary school kids and an adult happen upon my banned book library.
Kid: “Why is this book banned?”
Adult: “Because it has two same gender penguins”
Kid: “Well that’s stupid.”
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Daniel Snyder doesn’t deserve the sweetheart deal Virginia lawmakers want to give him
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The Supreme Court of Virginia has selected Bernard Grofman and Sean Trende as Special Masters to work together to draw new maps for Virginia's House of Delegates, State Senate, and Congressional districts.
#redistricting
#VaGov
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I stand with the members of the Fairfax County & Falls Church School Boards who are suing to set aside the Governor's illegal and unconstitutional EO. I hear from parents every day who say they want their kids in school. Masking helps keep them there. Let's listen to the parents.
Today, our School Board joins with
@acpsk12
@APSVirginia
@RPS_Schools
@FCCPS
@HamptonCSchools
@PWCSNews
to take legal action to affirm local constitutional authority & protect the health & well-being of all our students & staff.
See our joint statement:
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This is a really embarrassing setback for
@GovernorVA
-Even the Board of Ed he stacked with GOP allies by having the
@vahousegop
refuse to confirm Northam’s picks at the 11th hour rejected his proposed changes to K-12 history standards.
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I think
@GlennYoungkin
‘s ads about how his hard work and hours of practice got him a basketball scholarship while not mentioning that he’s also 6’7” is a metaphor for the GOP’s “if only you worked harder” world view
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In a truly cowardly move the
@vahousegop
just killed a Constitutional amendment to allow returning citizens who have served their time the right to vote after they’ve served their sentences at a 7 am subcommittee- a resolution w/ plenty of support to pass on the floor w GOP votes
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Out for a neighborhood walk with the dog in our matching patriotic outfits.
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I’m opposed to a national abortion ban. I’m opposed to state abortion bans. I am for safe, legal abortion access.
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Some pretty amazing things are happening in Virginia House of Delegates. A bunch of things happened just this week that I’d have thought would take years to a accomplish
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Really? Unlike anything you’ve ever seen? How about adjourning a special session without hearing a single bill until the Monday after the election only to cancel it all together because you lost the election?
The actions I witnessed today by the Speaker and Democratic Majority were an unprecedented and unjustified power grab unlike anything I have seen during my 31-years as a Delegate.
Please see my statement regarding today’s events below.
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How does a guy who loudly set up then quietly closed a teacher snitch line, just had his incompetent hire for superintendent abruptly & mysteriously resign, whose Ed dept attacks trans kids & leaves MLK out of social studies curriculum- land this? Is this a what not to do?
@CNN
THURSDAY: CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent
@JakeTapper
will moderate an education-focused
@CNN
Town Hall with
@GovernorVA
in front of a live studio audience at 9pmET.
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Priorities
House and Senate are negotiating which bills to do tonight.
House wants action on minimum wage and collective bargaining.
Senate wants action on casinos
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Can you imagine the reaction to a Veterans Community Center for Dem Veterans only?
One of the things I loved most about my military service was the way military families looked out for one another- no one ever asked “what party are you?” -that shouldn’t change once you’re a vet
THANK YOU to
@JasonMiyaresVA
,
@ReElectWittman
,
@JenKiggans
,
@HungCaoCongress
, & tons of Republican warriors who joined us in Va Beach for the opening of the country‘s first-ever
@GOP
Veterans Community Center! Let’s replicate
@GlennYoungkin
‘s fantastic standing among VA veterans!
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ActBlue is an online payment portal Dems use to solicit small donors. You use your credit card to make a donation. Once a week ActBlue cuts a check to your campaign committee for all the money you raised online. Brat knows this. He is lying.
Spanberger cannot hide from the fact that her campaign is funded by far-left special interests: $2.2 mil from Act Blue, $337k from House Victory Project, and $562k from House Majority PAC.
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So tired of waking up to the news of still another mass shooting. Chesapeake friends, sending you love and strength. Fellow policy makers, let’s not pretend we’re helpless to do anything about gun violence- there must be solutions, we can’t keep living and dying like this.
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Popped down to Virginia Beach this weekend to knock a packet for
@ElaineLuriaVA
! She’s making us all proud with her work on the
#January6thHearings
it’s the least we could do to help
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Presenting my safe storage bill to House Public Safety Subcommittee shortly- brought a biometric safe I picked up on Amazon for < $60 to show how easy it would be to comply & prevent firearms from getting into the hands of children
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The Governor choosing to tweet out this video demonizing Democrats this Crossover weekend, when the fate of so many of his priorities are in the hands of a Democratic legislature is a stunning case of political malpractice …
Governor’s Arena Bill is not on the Senate Finance and Appropriations docket because his proposal is not ready for prime time. This is what happens when Executive Branch doesn’t operate in good faith and doesn’t have respect for the Legislative Branch.
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Don’t mail these back Fairfax County Residents- the envelope is addressed to the city registrar - not Fairfax County! They are different- DO go to … and apply for an absentee ballot online!
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This is the team that pulled Virginia out of ERIC because "how hard could it be?" to do list maintenance ourselves?
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Just a reminder that it is 2022 and Republicans are trying to repeal employment protections for lgbtq Virginians
.
@SenatorHashmi
reminds Del Adams that the Senate patron of this piece of garbage bigoted bill (HB753 allowing discrimination if your religion says so) stated clearly, and asks do you agree that the whole point is to legalize discrimination against LGBTQ+ people?
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As a communications professional I’m surprised you haven’t yet deleted this tweet.
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Congressman
@RepDonBeyer
@GerryConnolly
trying to get access to inspections office now to see detainees
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Tonight at midnight is the deadline for
@GovernorVA
to sign or veto many bills that passed both houses with broad bipartisan support that he attempted to amend. As of 10 am we’ve seen none. Think he’s waiting until after 5 on Memorial Day weekend Friday to break the bad news? 🐓
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Trolling moms (with inaccurate dishonest tweet) who have dedicated their advocacy efforts to working to keep their kids (all of ours too) safe from never ending mass shootings and gun violence 🤦🏻♂️
this from the so-called party of parents, y’all
Mom's Demand Action are now buying old hunting rifles for $150. Someone needs to tell them 1) it's more likely someone uses a knife to commit a violent act than one of these and 2) they could probably buy some of these rifles for less at a pawn shop.
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Fairfax County parent here (who actually sends my kid to public school) I trust the duly elected school board to run our schools here. I’ll bet if you released the emails you received on your snitch- err “Tip Line” they’d show the vast majority of my fellow parents agree with me.
We consistently see the left-liberal progressives try to inject themselves between parents and their children. It's wrong and we're not going to let it happen in Virginia.
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Michigan has a Dem trifecta thanks to an all citizen non-partisan redistricting process that undid a GOP Gerrymander. This is exactly what many of us proposed as a superior alternative to our godawful disaster of a redistricting amendment in Va that cost us a Congressional seat
BREAKING: Democrats flip both chambers of the Michigan Legislature, will have a trifecta in Lansing for the first time in 40 years with control of the House, Senate and Gov.
@GretchenWhitmer
.
#ElectionDay
#Election2022
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The hyper partisan
@GovernorVA
is so anxious to own the libs he vetoed a perfectly innocuous local control bill to bring transparency and accountability to policing and couldn’t be bothered to proofread it before putting it out
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Apparently the new office will be an arm of
#TrumpWorld
as it requires state agencies to direct Virginians to Donald Trump’s website to track the progress of regulations- I kid you not . . . Try typing the URL into your browser - but don’t sign up for the newsletter
INBOX: Youngkin issues an executive order to create an Office of Regulatory Management led by former EPA admin Andrew Wheeler, with an aim of carrying out a 25% reduction in regulatory requirements
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These new policies are cruel and not at all evidence based - they don’t come close to complying with the letter or the spirit of the law I sponsored with
@JenniferBoysko
in 2020. If enacted these policies will harm Virginia children. Stop bullying kids to score political points
“With the publication of these 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools (the “2022 Model Policies”), the Department hereby withdraws the 2021 Model Policies, which shall have no further force and effect.”
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Why in the world would you go into business with this team on a stadium deal? They are stonewalling Congress on the investigation into their toxic culture of sexual harassment & now we can’t trust their books? Time to nix the stadium authority bill!
BREAKING: Congressional investigators have received info that the Commanders and owner Dan Snyder kept "two books" to paint different pictures of team finances.
Congress will now expand its probe into the team's toxic workplace to include finances.
Exclusive from
@byajperez
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If the Governor were serious about implementing the policies in his budget amendments he could send us bills. The Procedural resolution says any bill he sends down is in order. He’s attempting to legislate in the budget because he’s only interested in scoring a FoxNews hit
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