Posted on 08/28/2020 8:51:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Virginia Senate passed a new bill that would weaken sentencing for assaulting a police officer, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
The bill would strike down Virginia's six-month mandatory minimum sentence for striking an officer and provide judges the discretion to lower charges to a misdemeanor in less severe cases.
Despite vehement opposition from Republicans, Democratic lawmakers fast-tracked the passage of the bill with a party-line vote. Republican members argued that the bill undercuts police officers who are confronting a nationwide crime wave.
The new legislation follows Virginia governor Ralph Northam's (D.) administration's recent decisions to grant parole to convicted murderers, including Vincent Martin, who was serving a life sentence for murdering a police officer.
"That the parole board would even consider Mr. Martin a suitable candidate for release is cause for serious concern," Republican lawmakers wrote to Northam earlier this year.
Northam also offered a series of policy proposals in January that decriminalized marijuana use and lessened penalties for theft.
"Doubling the amount you can steal from your neighbor without serious consequence is unfortunately a prime example of the Democrats' looming agenda on crime and criminals," said Virginia House of Delegates minority leader Todd Gilbert (R.).
I hope that TRUMP uses this in his ad campaign there. Also, should call out Biden during the debates on it.
how about making assaults on marxist politicians a misdemeanor too?
Bounty.................
I never saw it myself but heard the description that in states like Florida the pest control companies sometimes put a plastic bag over a house and fumigate it totally.
I heard the cockroaches run out in swarms from this or other types of large scale sprayings.
This is exactly how I picture the DC,NYC and CA Dems. They moan and shed crybaby tears over their useless Dem governments, then they swarm like other pests to a good place (NV,UT,ID,FL,VA,TX....) and infest and ruin it with the same leftist policies they hated before!
The Virginia governor, blackface mostly washed off, is a fool and a leftist tool. Their legislature is a BLM kissup virtue signaling mess. No mercy for them.
You get the Government you deserve. Let them live with it. Don’t care.
While conservatives slept, the entire public school system was brainwashing our children. Those children grew up and are running the country. Right into the ground.
If there is no law, there is no law.
The governor no longer has the protection of the law. It’s ok to maim the Chief Law enforcement officer in the state
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. The Virginia Democrats just publicly stated that assaulting a Democrat office holder (including judges) is a misdemeanor.
I live in Florida and I’ve seen it done.
But have not seen it in years.
There’s a new method now where they simply use HOT AIR and raise the inside temperature of the house to about 150°F and the bugs all die....................
Virginia is not holding any regular state legislative elections in 2020.
Undoubtedly true but they will vote for POTUS................
So they send the leftist news media panels down there to greatly increase the hot air levels? Smart. To Don Lemon and Jake Tapper: "Okay, okay, you guys can shut up now. Shut up."
Red Badger, normally I agree with much of what you say, but what you just posted that we “deserve” the miserable wretch of a gov. we have now is simply wrong! Check this link and the map I will post. The REAL VIRGINIANS are solidly behind Trump and the REAL American way of life as it was meant to be. The coastal areas, Richmond, and suburbs around DC where the liberals come to live while working in DC is the issue here. Please educate yourself about the fact before posting such things.
Oops. In my anger I see it was not Red Badger but some kook named guardian of liberty. Sorry to Badger, and all the rant to you instead the “guardian” whatever that means.
Take Montgomery Co. for instance. Hilary won over Trump by only 500 votes...yet it turned the entire county blue for it. Va Tech area is why that happened. Half the population of that county is right around the college.
I had powder post beetles (and another destructive beetle) in an old house that I had redone. The only way to get rid of them was to tent the whole house. It waa not a simple process. The fumigation team was out of FL - they started doing houses to the north as the temperature got warmer - too cold, & the gas liquifies. The fumigators were required to stay onsite for the entire fumigation process & they had to patrol around the house every 30 minutes = skull & crossbones (poison) signs were posted on the tenting every so many feet. They told me a story about a house fumigation where a petty thief snuck in under the tenting & tried to steal a TV - they found him dead when the tenting was removed & the house was being aired out. Anyway, my house was successfully fumigated - no more beetles ... or anything else for that matter (spiders, mice, anything living).
A “fumigation” of all Leftist areas is an apt description of what is called for, whether by city or state.
Who in their right mind would want to be a policeman in a Democrat controlled state or city?
That is correct and that is the plan.
All the good sane cops will leave for saner places, they standards will be lowered to facilitate the hiring of incompetents, thugs and idiots.
Then the TERROR really begins..................
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