Abigail Spanberger

[Anonymous]

VA legislator about to pass and Spanberger will sign a bill requiring communities to enter into collective bargaining with public service employee unions. This will be a large unfunded indirect tax increase for local communities and will lead to property and other local tax increases across the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VA legislator about to pass and Spanberger will sign a bill requiring communities to enter into collective bargaining with public service employee unions. This will be a large unfunded indirect tax increase for local communities and will lead to property and other local tax increases across the state.

Hmmm...can't decide what's worse, this, or ICE murdering civilians. Tough one.

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Anonymous wrote:I just hope she’s able to push through the redistricting. If not, republicans might win again one day.

It's not going to matter. Republicans will need about 40 seats. And even the "red" districts they created in Texas might not pan out the way they'd hoped.

Don’t get overconfident. I’m not going to feel safe until we’ve literally passed laws to ensure they cannot ever win again.

So, no more democracy? Or was this sarcasm?

Seriously. Such a telling comment.

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Anonymous wrote:Really regretting my vote…

I'm not. I lean conservative and voted for Youngkin in 2021. However, I'm staunchly anti-Trump, and anti-MAGA, so Youngkin turned out to be a disappointment, and Winsome Earle-Sears would have been worse.

In 2025, I voted straight "D" at the top of the ticket, basically a vote against all the MAGA candidates. We need to rid politics of this pestilence and I'm glad to start the process in Virginia.

So, no regrets.

I'm not buying this shill post at all.

I'm the PP you're replying to, and my post is 100% true. You have no idea the damage Trump has done to the Republican Party.

The GOP hates their base. The party can die off.

We need a new rightwing party that puts the interests of their voters before their donors.

Interests like jobs programs, elder care, and help with drug addiction and medical debt? I know a party that is interested in that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just hope she’s able to push through the redistricting. If not, republicans might win again one day.

It's not going to matter. Republicans will need about 40 seats. And even the "red" districts they created in Texas might not pan out the way they'd hoped.

Don’t get overconfident. I’m not going to feel safe until we’ve literally passed laws to ensure they cannot ever win again.

I would say we need much stronger protections from corruption and abuses of power.

Individuals who abused their office should be held accountable and unable to hold government office in the future.

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Anonymous wrote:The $15 minimum wage won’t help anyone in Fairfax County because literally the only people making less than that are teenage part time workers and summer lifeguards at neighborhood pools. Not people who need “financial stability to support their families” - this is pretty much just feel-good virtue signaling.

In poorer parts of Virginia, it will depress job creation especially for young people trying to get on the ladder.

I’d be interested in seeing statistics about people making less than $15 right now in Virginia. Where are those jobs? Who is working them? How will the increase to $15 impact these businesses and creation of jobs? How much cost will be transferred onto the customer? Our pool dues will go up. Not a problem for me, but could potentially hit some families on a tight budget. And unnecessary because our pool already has a surplus of teens wanting to work there for 12.77 an hour.

Fortunately, there are likely very few full time adult workers making less than 15 right now, so probably not much impact compared to 20 or 25.

I also voted for a “moderate” am I am sick of the swinging back and forth between extremes. Youngkin, for his faults, was not extreme and seemed to have an understanding of the value of keeping things on an even keel and listening to voters. He did not try and reinvent the wheel, at least where things were already working pretty well. It is too bad that he wasn’t able to distance himself from Trump just a little more.

It is a mistake for Dems in general to engage in the kind of power grabbing they are attempting with the redistricting. We need to fight against the consolidation of power to one political party.

Dem extremism got us Trump. Trump’s extremism will lead to the pendulum swinging back. The swings are becoming too wide and causing too much instability. Rather than power grabbing and instituting your most extreme policies, why not actually listen to opposing views and work to find solutions that the great majority in the middle can live with?

Youngkin was definitely extreme. Supported The Big Lie and all of the other extreme MAGA policies. The guy would have banned abortion.

Do you not know how governments work? Spanberger isn't the entire VA government. She alone does not control legislation. There is also the GA (and Supreme Court). Just because bills are being introduced doesn't mean they're being passed.

So much RW hysterics over nothing.

So, exactly like the LW hysterics when Youngkin was elected governor? Like that?
DP

Democrats work off of facts and know how the government works. They alap aren’t constantly shoveling out bullcrap hysterics.

Well, that made me laugh out loud. You really have zero self-awareness. The bolded is your stock in trade, 24/7. Shall we pull up one of the dozens of hysterical anti-Youngkin threads?

You mean like when Democrats were concerned about Project 2025 and the Republicans pretended like it didn't exist only to turn around and implement a shit ton of it within the first few months of the orange shitstain's return?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Really regretting my vote…

I'm not. I lean conservative and voted for Youngkin in 2021. However, I'm staunchly anti-Trump, and anti-MAGA, so Youngkin turned out to be a disappointment, and Winsome Earle-Sears would have been worse.

In 2025, I voted straight "D" at the top of the ticket, basically a vote against all the MAGA candidates. We need to rid politics of this pestilence and I'm glad to start the process in Virginia.

So, no regrets.

I'm not buying this shill post at all.

I'm the PP you're replying to, and my post is 100% true. You have no idea the damage Trump has done to the Republican Party.

The GOP hates their base. The party can die off.

We need a new rightwing party that puts the interests of their voters before their donors.

Interests like jobs programs, elder care, and help with drug addiction and medical debt? I know a party that is interested in that.

Well, that party helps Black people and poor people, so PP clearly can't ever vote for them.

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Anonymous wrote:The $15 minimum wage won’t help anyone in Fairfax County because literally the only people making less than that are teenage part time workers and summer lifeguards at neighborhood pools. Not people who need “financial stability to support their families” - this is pretty much just feel-good virtue signaling.

In poorer parts of Virginia, it will depress job creation especially for young people trying to get on the ladder.

I’d be interested in seeing statistics about people making less than $15 right now in Virginia. Where are those jobs? Who is working them? How will the increase to $15 impact these businesses and creation of jobs? How much cost will be transferred onto the customer? Our pool dues will go up. Not a problem for me, but could potentially hit some families on a tight budget. And unnecessary because our pool already has a surplus of teens wanting to work there for 12.77 an hour.

Fortunately, there are likely very few full time adult workers making less than 15 right now, so probably not much impact compared to 20 or 25.

I also voted for a “moderate” am I am sick of the swinging back and forth between extremes. Youngkin, for his faults, was not extreme and seemed to have an understanding of the value of keeping things on an even keel and listening to voters. He did not try and reinvent the wheel, at least where things were already working pretty well. It is too bad that he wasn’t able to distance himself from Trump just a little more.

It is a mistake for Dems in general to engage in the kind of power grabbing they are attempting with the redistricting. We need to fight against the consolidation of power to one political party.

Dem extremism got us Trump. Trump’s extremism will lead to the pendulum swinging back. The swings are becoming too wide and causing too much instability. Rather than power grabbing and instituting your most extreme policies, why not actually listen to opposing views and work to find solutions that the great majority in the middle can live with?

Youngkin was definitely extreme. Supported The Big Lie and all of the other extreme MAGA policies. The guy would have banned abortion.

Do you not know how governments work? Spanberger isn't the entire VA government. She alone does not control legislation. There is also the GA (and Supreme Court). Just because bills are being introduced doesn't mean they're being passed.

So much RW hysterics over nothing.

So, exactly like the LW hysterics when Youngkin was elected governor? Like that?
DP

Democrats work off of facts and know how the government works. They alap aren’t constantly shoveling out bullcrap hysterics.

Well, that made me laugh out loud. You really have zero self-awareness. The bolded is your stock in trade, 24/7. Shall we pull up one of the dozens of hysterical anti-Youngkin threads?

You mean like when Democrats were concerned about Project 2025 and the Republicans pretended like it didn't exist only to turn around and implement a shit ton of it within the first few months of the orange shitstain's return?

No, you dolt. We're talking about Youngkin and Democrats' hysterical reaction to him when he was elected and for the entire four years of his governorship. Do try to stay on topic.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/285/977627.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/585/920148.page#20348476
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/989583.page#20493612
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1006336.page#21014075 (my personal favorite)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:VA legislator about to pass and Spanberger will sign a bill requiring communities to enter into collective bargaining with public service employee unions. This will be a large unfunded indirect tax increase for local communities and will lead to property and other local tax increases across the state.

Hmmm...can't decide what's worse, this, or ICE murdering civilians. Tough one.

Tragic incidents in Minneapolis to be sure, but so is the institutionalization of wealth transfer as an indirect result of repaying the union money that got Dems elected state-wide. Most insidious part is that most people don’t even see the consequence of this legislation so support it until the tax bills start to add up.

It’s going to similar to not paying attention to all of the data centers until people start to notice their electric bill is now twice what it was a year or two ago.

[Anonymous]

She has been selected to give the Democratic response to the State of the Union.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The $15 minimum wage won’t help anyone in Fairfax County because literally the only people making less than that are teenage part time workers and summer lifeguards at neighborhood pools. Not people who need “financial stability to support their families” - this is pretty much just feel-good virtue signaling.

In poorer parts of Virginia, it will depress job creation especially for young people trying to get on the ladder.

I’d be interested in seeing statistics about people making less than $15 right now in Virginia. Where are those jobs? Who is working them? How will the increase to $15 impact these businesses and creation of jobs? How much cost will be transferred onto the customer? Our pool dues will go up. Not a problem for me, but could potentially hit some families on a tight budget. And unnecessary because our pool already has a surplus of teens wanting to work there for 12.77 an hour.

Fortunately, there are likely very few full time adult workers making less than 15 right now, so probably not much impact compared to 20 or 25.

I also voted for a “moderate” am I am sick of the swinging back and forth between extremes. Youngkin, for his faults, was not extreme and seemed to have an understanding of the value of keeping things on an even keel and listening to voters. He did not try and reinvent the wheel, at least where things were already working pretty well. It is too bad that he wasn’t able to distance himself from Trump just a little more.

It is a mistake for Dems in general to engage in the kind of power grabbing they are attempting with the redistricting. We need to fight against the consolidation of power to one political party.

Dem extremism got us Trump. Trump’s extremism will lead to the pendulum swinging back. The swings are becoming too wide and causing too much instability. Rather than power grabbing and instituting your most extreme policies, why not actually listen to opposing views and work to find solutions that the great majority in the middle can live with?

Youngkin was definitely extreme. Supported The Big Lie and all of the other extreme MAGA policies. The guy would have banned abortion.

Do you not know how governments work? Spanberger isn't the entire VA government. She alone does not control legislation. There is also the GA (and Supreme Court). Just because bills are being introduced doesn't mean they're being passed.

So much RW hysterics over nothing.

So, exactly like the LW hysterics when Youngkin was elected governor? Like that?
DP

Democrats work off of facts and know how the government works. They alap aren’t constantly shoveling out bullcrap hysterics.

Well, that made me laugh out loud. You really have zero self-awareness. The bolded is your stock in trade, 24/7. Shall we pull up one of the dozens of hysterical anti-Youngkin threads?

You mean like when Democrats were concerned about Project 2025 and the Republicans pretended like it didn't exist only to turn around and implement a shit ton of it within the first few months of the orange shitstain's return?

No, you dolt. We're talking about Youngkin and Democrats' hysterical reaction to him when he was elected and for the entire four years of his governorship. Do try to stay on topic.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/285/977627.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/585/920148.page#20348476
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/989583.page#20493612
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1006336.page#21014075 (my personal favorite)

Your neighbors probably do hate you if you had a Youngkin sign up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She has been selected to give the Democratic response to the State of the Union.

Good. I hope she rips him a new one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The $15 minimum wage won’t help anyone in Fairfax County because literally the only people making less than that are teenage part time workers and summer lifeguards at neighborhood pools. Not people who need “financial stability to support their families” - this is pretty much just feel-good virtue signaling.

In poorer parts of Virginia, it will depress job creation especially for young people trying to get on the ladder.

I’d be interested in seeing statistics about people making less than $15 right now in Virginia. Where are those jobs? Who is working them? How will the increase to $15 impact these businesses and creation of jobs? How much cost will be transferred onto the customer? Our pool dues will go up. Not a problem for me, but could potentially hit some families on a tight budget. And unnecessary because our pool already has a surplus of teens wanting to work there for 12.77 an hour.

Fortunately, there are likely very few full time adult workers making less than 15 right now, so probably not much impact compared to 20 or 25.

I also voted for a “moderate” am I am sick of the swinging back and forth between extremes. Youngkin, for his faults, was not extreme and seemed to have an understanding of the value of keeping things on an even keel and listening to voters. He did not try and reinvent the wheel, at least where things were already working pretty well. It is too bad that he wasn’t able to distance himself from Trump just a little more.

It is a mistake for Dems in general to engage in the kind of power grabbing they are attempting with the redistricting. We need to fight against the consolidation of power to one political party.

Dem extremism got us Trump. Trump’s extremism will lead to the pendulum swinging back. The swings are becoming too wide and causing too much instability. Rather than power grabbing and instituting your most extreme policies, why not actually listen to opposing views and work to find solutions that the great majority in the middle can live with?

Youngkin was definitely extreme. Supported The Big Lie and all of the other extreme MAGA policies. The guy would have banned abortion.

Do you not know how governments work? Spanberger isn't the entire VA government. She alone does not control legislation. There is also the GA (and Supreme Court). Just because bills are being introduced doesn't mean they're being passed.

So much RW hysterics over nothing.

So, exactly like the LW hysterics when Youngkin was elected governor? Like that?
DP

Democrats work off of facts and know how the government works. They alap aren’t constantly shoveling out bullcrap hysterics.

Well, that made me laugh out loud. You really have zero self-awareness. The bolded is your stock in trade, 24/7. Shall we pull up one of the dozens of hysterical anti-Youngkin threads?

You mean like when Democrats were concerned about Project 2025 and the Republicans pretended like it didn't exist only to turn around and implement a shit ton of it within the first few months of the orange shitstain's return?

No, you dolt. We're talking about Youngkin and Democrats' hysterical reaction to him when he was elected and for the entire four years of his governorship. Do try to stay on topic.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/285/977627.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/585/920148.page#20348476
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/989583.page#20493612
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1006336.page#21014075 (my personal favorite)

Your neighbors probably do hate you if you had a Youngkin sign up.

DP. People like you are why Democrats are widely loathed.

[Anonymous]

Which persona of Spanberger shows up after the State of the Union, the pretend moderate or the far left liberal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VA legislator about to pass and Spanberger will sign a bill requiring communities to enter into collective bargaining with public service employee unions. This will be a large unfunded indirect tax increase for local communities and will lead to property and other local tax increases across the state.

Great! More revenue that can be used to finance much needed programs to help those in need of assistance.