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Posted on 02/03/2019 7:03:11 AM PST by Moseley
LORTON, VIRGINIA (February 2, 2019) — On very short notice, an estimated 750 to 1,000 Pro-Life citizens turned out to protest the legislative “town hall” scheduled by Virginia State Delegate Kathy Tran (D-VA-42). A large Catholic turn-out was joined by Northern Virginia Republicans determined to win back Tran’s seat later this year.
Tran is the freshman Delegate who sponsored a bill in the Virginia General Assembly to allow the killing of an unborn baby up to the moment of birth. Tran’s halting, defensive explanation of the bill she sponsored before the Virginia state House of Delegates committee went viral and has created a firestorm nationally in the wake of New York passing a similar bill into law.
Governor Ralph Northam (D-Virginia) created a second, bigger firestorm when he tried to explain away Tran’s bill, but instead suggested that it would allow the murder of a baby even after the moment of birth, as well as justifying abortions shortly before birth. Tran’s uncertain explanation of her own bill suggested to this author that Tran may have been talked into sponsoring the bill.
Delegate Tran’s district is mostly within Fairfax County, Virginia. She scheduled a “town hall” to meet with constituents at 1:00 PM today at the South County High School in Lorton, Virginia. But in the last 24 to 48 hours, word spread rapidly that opponents of abortion would show up at Tran’s town hall. The Susan B. Anthony List sponsored the protest, and a series of conservative leaders spoke, including Penny Nance, head of Concerned Women for America and Alison Centofante of Live Action.
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However, as word spread, Tran cancelled her townhall. The purpose of the event of course was to hear from her Northern Virginia constituents. Tran ducked them instead. Tran was also scheduled to hold a joint town hall with Senator Scott Surovell (D-VA-36) at the “Workhouse Arts Center” on the Lorton border with Woodbridge. Tran went ahead with the second town hall, but getting the counter-demonstrating crowd to relocate was too difficult to attempt.
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LORTON, VIRGINIA (February 2, 2019) — On very short notice, an estimated 750 to 1,000 Pro-Life citizens turned out to protest the legislative “town hall” scheduled by Virginia State Delegate Kathy Tran (D-VA-42). A large Catholic turn-out was joined by Northern Virginia Republicans determined to win back Tran’s seat later this year.
Tran is the freshman Delegate who sponsored a bill in the Virginia General Assembly to allow the killing of an unborn baby up to the moment of birth. Tran’s halting, defensive explanation of the bill she sponsored before the Virginia state House of Delegates committee went viral and has created a firestorm nationally in the wake of New York passing a similar bill into law.
Governor Ralph Northam (D-Virginia) created a second, bigger firestorm when he tried to explain away Tran’s bill, but instead suggested that it would allow the murder of a baby even after the moment of birth, as well as justifying abortions shortly before birth. Tran’s uncertain explanation of her own bill suggested to this author that Tran may have been talked into sponsoring the bill.
Delegate Tran’s district is mostly within Fairfax County, Virginia. She scheduled a “town hall” to meet with constituents at 1:00 PM today at the South County High School in Lorton, Virginia. But in the last 24 to 48 hours, word spread rapidly that opponents of abortion would show up at Tran’s town hall. The Susan B. Anthony List sponsored the protest, and a series of conservative leaders spoke, including Penny Nance, head of Concerned Women for America and Alison Centofante of Live Action.
In January, as in late December, all or nearly all members of the Virginia General Assembly are sponsoring “legislative town halls” across their districts to meet with their voters, listen to ideas about legislation voters want to see worked on, listen to support or opposition to pending bills, and hear what priorities their constituents have.
However, as word spread, Tran cancelled her townhall. The purpose of the event of course was to hear from her Northern Virginia constituents. Tran ducked them instead. Tran was also scheduled to hold a joint town hall with Senator Scott Surovell (D-VA-36) at the “Workhouse Arts Center” on the Lorton border with Woodbridge. Tran went ahead with the second town hall, but getting the counter-demonstrating crowd to relocate was too difficult to attempt.
[Update: The writer is reminded by many Virginia conservatives who had planned to attend that when Delegate Tran’s townhall meeting was cancelled, most conservatives thought the entire event was cancelled. The event was originally billed as going to confront Delegate Tran as she met with voters. Moving the event out to the sidewalk required organizers to get out the word late Friday afternoon and evening that their event was still happening. Turn-out might have been in the thousands without the confusion.]
Because the townhall was cancelled, the protestors were not allowed into the school auditorium. The event spilled over onto the nearby intersection of major streets. Attendees filled all four corners of the intersection as well as the median strips in between.
[Update: Ron Wilcox responds that he thinks the attendance was easily 800+ if considering people arriving and leaving at different times during the event. Many others are estimating the crowd size as around 1,000. ]
Vietnamese right? Democrats sold her country down the river.
I wonder if she’ll claim she was assaulted by people wearing MAGA hats, with no video corroboration.
It's a shame the majority of gop politicos have not the backbone these citizens possess.
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Take her seat back ! The co- sponsor won in a close election. She backpeddled because of the heat. We can flip her seat too !
Rand Paul’s Strategist Offers to Run Free Campaign to Unseat VA Democrat Kathy Tran: ‘Taking Applications Now’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3724620/posts?page=1
“Anyone in Springfield Va area HD 42 want to run against this infanticide promoter and liar — DM me, I’ll run your race for free,” tweeted Doug Stafford, who serves as Sen. Rand Paul’s chief strategist.
He’s serious about this.
Awesome ! We can do this.
What bothers me the most about this is the fact that the Rats have successfully moved the line of what is tolerated.
Every one is saying well the bill was shelved, not rejected just shelved. So okay we aren’t going to allow you to kill a baby moments after its born. But anything up to that moment goes now and almost no one is screaming about that.
And the evil punk Governor may be driven from office not because he defended murdering a newborn but because he triggered people with college pictures. Who would blame the Lord if turned us all into piles of salt.
“For my parents, America has always embodied hope, opportunity and freedom,” Tran says.”
Hope unless you are a fetus.
I totally agree with you. He should be driven from office because he is morally unfit, not because of pictures; however, the Dems can’t drive him from office on the infanticide and he has GOT to go. They need him to go badly, so the pictures are a convenient tool.
“however, the Dems can’t drive him from office on the infanticide”
Well there you are. The Rats have slid so far down they cannot remove someone who defended murdering birthed babies but for political expedience they must find another excuse to dump him. This party just took the house and have at least a 50/50 shot at getting it all in less than 2 years.
Pray my brothers and sisters.
All of these moveon.org supported reps are baby murderers.
JoMa
Exactly - spot on summary.
Pray my brothers and sisters.
Amen. I do every day, fervently.
I hope the protesters were wearing clothes covered in black baby doll parts Black Genocide is alive and thriving in the Democrat Party.
This issue is tearing the country apart (no pun intended).
None of this crap happened prior to Roe vs Wade.
How can this woman be a baby killing leftist and Socialist knowing what her parents escaped from and Vietnam went through as a society?
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