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Newly empowered Virginia Democrats promise 'action'
AP ^ | January 8, 2020 | Staff

Posted on 01/08/2020 2:40:55 AM PST by C19fan

A historically diverse Virginia General Assembly is set to convene Wednesday, led for the first time in more than two decades by Democrats who are promising to enact a litany of changes.

“Voters demanded action, and they have called for a legislature that works for them. And this session, they will get exactly that," House Speaker-elect Eileen Filler-Corn said at a press conference Tuesday with Gov. Ralph Northam and other legislative leaders. In the weeks since Democrats retook control of the state House and Senate, they have laid out an ambitious agenda. It includes high-profile issues Republicans thwarted for years, including gun control measures and criminal justice reforms. They also have pledged to ease restrictions on abortion access, raise the minimum wage, prohibit discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community and make Virginia the next state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: left; va
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Freepers have been on top of all proposed gun grabbing bills floating around Richmond. The other bills are a wish list of Leftist social causes from abortion, ratification of ERA, minimal wage increase, subverting the Electoral College, and LGBT stuff. The one thing I have not noticed so far is any tax increases and like. All the focus is on social issues. We shall see when the state budget comes out.
1 posted on 01/08/2020 2:40:55 AM PST by C19fan
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Northam wants a higher gas tax and one other progressive socialist proposal is integration of single family urban neighborhoods with multi housing since single family housing is racist. Virginia is a test case and whatever socialists can get away with here will be done in other states.


2 posted on 01/08/2020 2:50:51 AM PST by spirited irish
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A historically diverse Virginia General Assembly...

Somebody tell me why diversity is good!!

I still haven’t gotten a straight answer from anyone.

If by diversity it means throwing some southerners in my neighborhood so we can get some Real BBQ, great.

Throw in Midwesterners so someone can help me grow my vegetables and fruits right.

But a male couple? A moon god worshiper? Someone who doesn’t understand English?

No. No. And no.


3 posted on 01/08/2020 2:53:33 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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Time to show these Communo-Nazi totalitarian pigs where they can get off. Viva la Virginia Revolucion !


4 posted on 01/08/2020 2:57:45 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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Because this has worked soooo well in NYS, CA, IL...


5 posted on 01/08/2020 3:02:00 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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What an agenda.

- Sexual Perversion

- Violation of Constitutional Rights

- Letting Murderers, Thieves, and Rapists Out of Prison Early, and Allowing Them to Vote

- Radical Feminism

- The Murder of the Innocent Unborn (and the Born)

- Marxism

Oh well Virginians, you cannot mock California, New York, and New Jersey any more.

Welcome to Hell.




6 posted on 01/08/2020 3:02:09 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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The one thing I have not noticed so far is any tax increases and like.

Trust me, they're coming.

These agents of Soros may be evil, but they are not stupid.

Taxes increases are coming, but they won't shout them from the rooftops.

You will simply wake up one morning and read about them in the news.

The odious Car Tax will seem mild by comparison.

7 posted on 01/08/2020 3:05:19 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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The action the Virginia Bloomberg Demoncraps promise is the violation of the Constitution of the United States, specifically the 2nd amendment.

Every citizen has the rightto preserve and enforce the Constitution, whether the Virginia liberal fascist AG recognizes that fact or not.

The action they speak of is to establish a raod to tyranny, a pathway to the totalitarian state.

This will NOT STAND.

And the Government of the State of Virginia is aboyt to declare war on the People. Such initiatives are illegal and unconstitutional, and the action THEY get in return will define what happens everywhere in the United States, when a government uses false issue to disguise the condemnation of any right of The People under that Constitution.

Tyranny will not stand in Virginia.That’s the “ACTION.”

COME AND TAKE IT!


8 posted on 01/08/2020 3:05:48 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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If they don’t successfully cause any conservative to make any big mistake, then they’ve overstepped and will lose. Let some cases go to the Supreme Court, and let all in Virginia who see their freedoms being threatened wake up and vote conservative.


9 posted on 01/08/2020 3:09:12 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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Let some cases go to the Supreme Court

That's a fool's errand.

Citizens in California, Maryland, Colorado, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have been waiting for decades for the courts to defend and restore their rights.

It simply never transpires.

10 posted on 01/08/2020 3:17:38 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Filler-Corn ... a bar sinister means born a bastard. Look it up!


11 posted on 01/08/2020 3:26:23 AM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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Virginia CALIFORNIA is a test case...

...and the test failed miserably.

12 posted on 01/08/2020 3:31:03 AM PST by Avalon Memories (Politics is all about quid pro quos. Donate to me! Vote for me! I'll give you "free" stuff)
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<>"Somebody tell me why diversity is good!!"<>

"DIVERSITY IS UNITY" just as FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, WAR IS PEACE, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Orwell just forgot that one.

13 posted on 01/08/2020 3:35:57 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Politicians don't seek solutions, they seek problems.)
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“Throw in Midwesterners so someone can help me grow my vegetables and fruits right.”

Ummmm would that be Filler-Corn?


14 posted on 01/08/2020 3:47:51 AM PST by DaiHuy (May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not! Millard Fillmore)
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Now the Democrats can turn it into the shithole of the east. They are happy with one state at a time but shitholes they will be


15 posted on 01/08/2020 4:05:05 AM PST by okie 54
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The Associated Press can hardly contain its glee.


16 posted on 01/08/2020 4:12:35 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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I have just registered to vote.Let us see how long democratic rule lasts here.We,the many refuse to be ruled by the few!


17 posted on 01/08/2020 4:50:08 AM PST by MidniteRyder
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Republicans refused to vote in the legislative elections of 2019, and these are the consequences.


18 posted on 01/08/2020 4:54:24 AM PST by Theodore R.
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I’m thinking the price of renting a U-Haul from Virginia to Texas, is going to be pretty high. In fact, I’d say that NY, Jersey, Virginia, Illinois, and California will continue to see a decline in population. Please don’t bring liberals, let them stay in the socialist hell hole they have created.


19 posted on 01/08/2020 4:54:40 AM PST by King_Corey (Buy American - https://madeinamericastore.com/)
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This is the effect of the spill over money pouring into DC. All the a hole libs who moved there from the north east have infested the moderately conservative portion of that state. Just walk around Alexandria or Arlington and listen. Bunch of government funded slugs. Nanny state nimrods.


20 posted on 01/08/2020 5:09:31 AM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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