Posted on 05/10/2021 10:19:40 PM PDT by Az Joe
Youngkin, 54, campaigned as a conservative and defeated a field of seven candidates. Glenn Youngkin, a former CEO at the Carlyle Group, the private equity firm, won the GOP nomination for governor in Virginia on Monday in what will be a closely watched election since only two states are headed to the polls in 2021 to choose their governors.
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“Glenn Youngkin, a former CEO at the Carlyle Group,”
Isn’t that a Bush/Cheney outfit? Anybody know about this guy? Is he MAGA or GOPe?
“More than 30,000 delegates cast ballots Saturday at what the Republican Party of Virginia is calling an “unassembled convention” to choose their nominees for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.”
Oh, I get it now.
I don’t think a Republican will win like they did in 2009 when Obama was in his first year.
gope to the max. meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
My sister lives in Virginia and trusts Governor Northrom because he’s a doctor. When we were moving out of the country and I knew we couldn’t take any guns with us I gave them a nice air rifle to give to her son because he was going to grad school in upstate New York and it would be perfect for small game. I spoke to him on the phone a year later and he had no idea I left it for him. It turned out that my sister’s husband got rid of it because he didn’t want his 20-something son to have a dangerous weapon. The state used to be pretty conservative but now it’s full of people like them.
Sad
Too bad. The governor is already picked. The machines will do the rest.
Absolutely screams "Deep State". Not grass roots. The people of Virginia have had their government hijacked years ago with the John Warners et al.
Yes I know Glenn Youngkin and can attest that he’s a strong man of faith with a strong family, who has a rags to riches Life story. We belong to the same evangelical church. Politically I know he’s pro-life, pro-gun rights (Lifetime NRA), anti-BLM, strong on election integrity and very pro small business.
Also, I know he counts Ron deSantis and Ted Cruz as friends and advisors. Good man with a chance to fight and win the uphill battle in an increasingly Democrat commonwealth.
As for the Carlyle Group, yes like many / all? of those types of firms they operate globally and he’d likely leverage the best side of that, a la Trump, to lure Internatonal firms to locate all/part of the businesses in Virginia.
We have been flooded with Yankee peddlers and carpetbaggers from New York, Pa, and Maryland, plus some from New England. This was partially planned to bring in young, politically ignorant but well-paid millenials to take over local elected political positions and school boards, which they have successfully, and to set the stage for illegals voting, lowering the voting age for many political local elections, etc.
Then they brought in thug moneybagger McAuliffe to capture the state for the Clintons, which he did to some degree. Then we got Dr. Megele Northam, twice accused possible rapist Lt. Gov Fairfax (he’s black so he can’t be accused of anything, you know), and Soros-backed Marxist States Att. General Mark “Red” Herring.
The poison seeped down to the local level when a rich black covert Marxist named Stevens put millions into local elections and the Marxist Working Families Party came down to organize local Marxist affiliates, which they did (they call themselves “progressives” as in “Progressive Prosecutors of Virginia”. This latter group is doing to Virginia what the Leftists are doing in Washington State, Oregon, California, New York, etc. re no-bail release for charged criminals, lesser charges for serious crimes including murder, refusing to represent the State in some trials, and generally acting against law enforcement people.
I say this as a longtime (Yankee) Virginia resident who was a liberal until I saw the Democrats betray us in Vietnam and the failure of “the Great Society”, etc. first hand (Riots in Philadelphia, Baltimore and DC), and the rise in crime when top law enforcement leftists/people were picked to destroy successful “stop and frisk” (on probable cause) programs, arresting illegals such as MS-13, MS-18, LL, etc. who are now the major Fentanyl dealers in the State, and ignoring local corrupt officials.
I also worked in Congress and with federal law enforcement and have seen how corrupt both have become under the Clintons, Obama and now Biden/Harris. Crime is rising in the whole area and the bodies of mainly black people are getting piled high and wide. So much for helping to protect the law abiding citizen from the criminal instead of the policy now in protecting the criminal from law enforcement and a legally armed citizenry.
I don’t care if Youngkin is the top capitalist in the world, he’s better than anything the Marxist/crooked Democrats of Virginia can offer, dead or alive.
Man of faith is really nice. Jimmy Carter was a man of faith. Bill Barr and Mueller went to the same church every day.
He’s been at Carlyle for 25 years. That means friends with Cheney, Bush and the Saudis.
Carlyle owns Yunfeng Capital, a communist Chinese venture capital firm that owns Alibaba among other things. They own Booze Allen Hamilton. And wants to attract more foreign business to Virginia.
The globalists and CIA have their boy I see.
Sorry, he is the direction I am moving away from in my voting patterns.
Sounds like your sister is probably racist too
Yes, when FReepers rejoice over population loss in states like NY and CA they don’t realize that these people bring their values with them. I lived in 2 states, New Hampshire and Georgia, that used to be solidly Conservative. In fact in Georgia it wasn’t unusual for both candidates in an election, Dem and GOP, to have A or higher ratings from the NRA. Look at those states now.
It’s a common complaint from conservatives that leftists flee blue state s-holes and continue voting Democrat. There are a lot of patriots leaving those states too. There’s a car with California tags and a pro-life bumper sticker that moved my townhouse community here in VA.
That said, this Youngkin fellow has zero chance here. Too many leftists have moved in from other states and too many third world immigrants for any kind of Republican to have a chance.
So can you give me a couple of examples of states that turned more Conservative due to people moving in from states like NY, MA, NJ, Il, CA, etc.?
He will lose....
Nice turd polishing on your part.
anyone could be a delegate eligible to vote at the “convention” which was just a local polling location.
i don’t think he’’ll beat McAwful, although the black women running against McAwful are pretty pissed he is in the race.
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