The entire Civil Rights division for Virginia is gone

[Anonymous]

Watching Youngkin’s campaign and seeing what he’s done his first day in office, I took momentary solace and satisfaction in our family’s decision to live in MD rather than VA. However, this GOP will use lies and rig the system in their favor across the country, and it impacts us all.

They seem to believe the promise of this country only exists for them — according to their terms even though they and their viewpoints represent the minority. They don’t believe the blessings of liberty should be extended to anyone who doesn’t look or think like them. They bathe themselves in red, white, and blue and call themselves “patriots” when they are exactly the opposite.

[Anonymous]

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Until this moment I have never heard of the “conviction integrity unit” and I bet 99% of all
posters in DCUM were in the same boat
unfortunate name - reminds me of a govt agency name The Simpsons would use
It also makes me think this is a smaller unit that has work that could be done by a larger department
anyway I do feel bad for employees who were let go bc losing a job sucks

The CIU is in charge of investigating claims of innocence, with an eye toward truth seeking rather than litigation based on procedural barriers to those claims. Those barriers are huge in Virginia, and the CIU was doing really important work. It should be considered important from a law and order perspective, too, but I don’t get the sense that it will be.

[Anonymous]

Trumpkin is a racist liar. Now there is a fox in the hen house.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“Opening VA back up and telling the slackers to go back to work”

What are you talking about? Virginia isn’t closed and people are already working?

+1 The current Virginia unemployment rate is 3.4%, you wackos.

Virginia's GDP has taken a nose dive. It's not going to recover by itself.

Really? That’s interesting since BEA shows Virginians GDP increasing meaningfully each of the first three quarters of 2021, more than the drop for all of 2020. Four quarter numbers aren’t in yet, but given how much revenues exceeded projections through December, it seems unlikely GDP will drop in the fourth quarter.

We will see. If there was any recovery, it was at the expense of small business and almost certainly centered on Northern Virginia thanks to the enormous subsidy that is the federal government.

You will need to show your work for that, because it sounds like you are making up facts to support a false narrative.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-small-businesses-covid/72977

Virginia does fairly poorly by any metric.

Your only source is a nine-month-old prediction from WalletHub about how small businesses might fare in the pandemic based on very limited metrics? In other words, you have nothing to support your claims that GDP has taken a nosedive (which is demonstrably false) or that small businesses are feeling the brunt of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Watching Youngkin’s campaign and seeing what he’s done his first day in office, I took momentary solace and satisfaction in our family’s decision to live in MD rather than VA. However, this GOP will use lies and rig the system in their favor across the country, and it impacts us all.

They seem to believe the promise of this country only exists for them — according to their terms even though they and their viewpoints represent the minority. They don’t believe the blessings of liberty should be extended to anyone who doesn’t look or think like them. They bathe themselves in red, white, and blue and call themselves “patriots” when they are exactly the opposite.

Well of course, they're fascists. We've seen what that orange idiot tried to do and these people don't care at all. They want things their way even if they have to do illegal things to get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Watching Youngkin’s campaign and seeing what he’s done his first day in office, I took momentary solace and satisfaction in our family’s decision to live in MD rather than VA. However, this GOP will use lies and rig the system in their favor across the country, and it impacts us all.

They seem to believe the promise of this country only exists for them — according to their terms even though they and their viewpoints represent the minority. They don’t believe the blessings of liberty should be extended to anyone who doesn’t look or think like them. They bathe themselves in red, white, and blue and call themselves “patriots” when they are exactly the opposite.

Very well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this legal under federal law? I’ve never heard of such an extreme action.

Democrats do it all the time. This is from back in 2018:

https://6abc.com/philadelphia-news-district-attorney-larry-krasner-prosecutors-fired/2867602/

[Anonymous]

This thread is so laughable. It seems like most dems are completely and utterly out of touch with the working class. I don’t vote republican because their policies are even worse for the working class and worsen social inequity. But JFC how much do you think the average person who is struggling cares about a couple of state level lawyers (read, people who make more $$$ than most and have more opportunity to land on their feet) and the fate of some housing discrimination lawsuits?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so laughable. It seems like most dems are completely and utterly out of touch with the working class. I don’t vote republican because their policies are even worse for the working class and worsen social inequity. But JFC how much do you think the average person who is struggling cares about a couple of state level lawyers (read, people who make more $$$ than most and have more opportunity to land on their feet) and the fate of some housing discrimination lawsuits?

You are right that a lot of people don’t understand the significance of this, if they are even aware that it happened. That’s why those of who are aware and do understand should fight back against it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is so laughable. It seems like most dems are completely and utterly out of touch with the working class. I don’t vote republican because their policies are even worse for the working class and worsen social inequity. But JFC how much do you think the average person who is struggling cares about a couple of state level lawyers (read, people who make more $$$ than most and have more opportunity to land on their feet) and the fate of some housing discrimination lawsuits?

You are right that a lot of people don’t understand the significance of this, if they are even aware that it happened. That’s why those of who are aware and do understand should fight back against it.

Sure, but asking if those that voted for Youngkin have learned their lesson yet is just ridiculous. No, obviously they haven’t. They don’t care about this. They aren’t spending a second’s thought about this.

[Anonymous]

No one cares about the civil rights division or the office of diversity and inclusion, they won't be missed. What people see is Youngkin giving POC leadership roles with important job duties and titles.

[Anonymous]

So is the ENTIRE DIVISION GONE or just 2 people?

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Until this moment I have never heard of the “conviction integrity unit” and I bet 99% of all
posters in DCUM were in the same boat
unfortunate name - reminds me of a govt agency name The Simpsons would use
It also makes me think this is a smaller unit that has work that could be done by a larger department
anyway I do feel bad for employees who were let go bc losing a job sucks

So because you hadn’t heard of it, it must not be important?

+1 Do you have any idea how many wrongfully convicted Virginians there have been?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one cares about the civil rights division or the office of diversity and inclusion, they won't be missed. What people see is Youngkin giving POC leadership roles with important job duties and titles.

Two black people in an otherwise all-white thirteen-person cabinet is not exactly groundbreaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one cares about the civil rights division or the office of diversity and inclusion, they won't be missed. What people see is Youngkin giving POC leadership roles with important job duties and titles.

EXACTLY.