The way this is going to be enforced by the Governor is through state funding provided to localities, and most particularly, to fund a portion of each locality’s compensation costs for the elected Sheriff and his deputies.
You unfortunately have it right: money talks, BS walks.
The powerlines to Richmond can be cut until such funding is restored. There are ways to give Richmond back the pain they are dishing back. Counties can defer construction on their part of critical county and state connecting roads.
I imagine in households in which voting has been split between the husbands and wives over “Trump” and Republicans the conversations must be heating up in Virginia. A hunting husband is going to be very mad at his squishy middle of the road wife who may not be fully liberal but wanted a woman delegate in just because even if the delegate was Democrat. It didn’t help that many delegate districts, about 25 or so had only one party represented....still we ended up 9 shy of the Democrats in the house of Delegates and 2 shy in the Senate. The voters in Va are passive and will only vote reactively when some of their sacred cows are touched. Guns are their sacred cows. Wrong move by the Dem politicians but it will be two years before we can vote to kick the suckers out. In the mean time I expect there will be multiple candidates for each delegate seat next time.
The powerlines to Richmond can be cut until such funding is restored. There are ways to give Richmond back the pain they are dishing back. Counties can defer construction on their part of critical county and state connecting roads.
I imagine in households in which voting has been split between the husbands and wives over “Trump” and Republicans the conversations must be heating up in Virginia. A hunting husband is going to be very mad at his squishy middle of the road wife who may not be fully liberal but wanted a woman delegate in just because even if the delegate was Democrat. It didn’t help that many delegate districts, about 25 or so had only one party represented....still we ended up 9 shy of the Democrats in the house of Delegates and 2 shy in the Senate. The voters in Va are passive and will only vote reactively when some of their sacred cows are touched. Guns are their sacred cows. Wrong move by the Dem politicians but it will be two years before we can vote to kick the suckers out. In the mean time I expect there will be multiple candidates for each delegate seat next time.
Another thought...if they cut funding to the sheriffs, then they have no one that even can enforce any law in the areas not served by county police systems. Active Militias will rise to take the sheriffs’ places and they won’t be kind to any active drug gangs or criminals that have secret relationships with Democrats; vigilantism will get out of control. Those 2100 state police? Not all of them are active road patrol officers but many are administrative. National Guard?...Trump will federalize them and tell Virginia Democrats to get their own army. Futile gesture on part of the state.