VA Governor Discussion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Voting Republican this time.
I want more focus on actual issues.
I used to like the fluffy democratic narrative but can't do it any more.

Which actual issues are you focused on? Making Virginia a safe space for racists?

Out with illegals to improve our schools, lower the tax burden,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Voting Republican this time.
I want more focus on actual issues.
I used to like the fluffy democratic narrative but can't do it any more.

Which actual issues are you focused on? Making Virginia a safe space for racists?

Your response is exhibit A of why people are sick of the Democrats.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The libs are destroying the state with high taxes and tolls

I know, isn't it crazy they think the state should provide us things like roads and schools and law enforcement? Nuts.

Don’t be dramatic.

That's all you have? No intelligent response?

Your response is moronic. The argument would be about the amount the level of taxation, not funding essential services. No Republican supports defunding law enforcement or eliminating roads or schools.

We're already lacking funds for road maintenance, schools systems across the state are struggling to keep up financially once they've tapped all they can from local revenues, and law enforcement salary increases at the state and local levels haven't kept up with COL/inflation for years. Where you do think the money is going to come from if you cut taxes and stop collecting tolls?

[Anonymous]

As the owner of a small business start-up (approx. two years old), I also disagree with Ed Gillespie's ideas of what's discouraging new business formation. Local taxes, which he harps on a lot, are pretty trivial for me. The bigger issue is licensing and regulation, Virginia is full of all kinds of protectionist regulation designed to discourage new competitors from entering certain industries. Even though I'm based in Virginia, it's easier for me to do many kinds of work for clients in Maryland, and I can't swear I won't eventually relocate my business there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A Northam vote is essential, for so many reasons. But the AG race is just as important.

The VA AG has exceptional power in state government and functions as a unitary chief legal officer. He can overrule Gov decisions on litigation (the Governor is required under state law house and rely on the state AG, and cannot appoint his own litigation counsel, even if there's a conflict as between the Gov and the AG). The AG also has the right of appearance in nearly all state Supreme Court judicial proceedings, even when the State isn't a party. And the AG's formal opinions are presumptively in evidence and are entitled to weight from any VA tribunal.

The AG, Mark Herring, is an extraordinary public official. He richly merits re-election. He'll be my first vote on the ticket, and the last one I make sure of before I scan the sheet.

His Rep opponent is basically a professional anti-abortion protestor with some ivy and no true government experience on his CV.

Sounds perfect to me. He's got my vote.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Northam up 14 in new poll. It’s game over, GOP. VA is rock rubbed D country now.

Sad it's destroyed like New Jersey

What poll has Northam up by 14 points

Quinnipiac.

That's an outlier. According to Real Clear Politics the average across 6 polls has Northam up and average of +5.8%, still a very close margin:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2017/governor/va/virginia_governor_gillespie_vs_northam-6197.html

Northam +7 (Fox News)
Northam +14 (Quinnipaic)
Northam -1 (Monmouth)
Northam +4 (Christopher Newport Univ)
Northam +6 (Roanoke College)
Northam +5 (Emerson)

Average Northam +5.8

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The libs are destroying the state with high taxes and tolls

I know, isn't it crazy they think the state should provide us things like roads and schools and law enforcement? Nuts.

Don’t be dramatic.

That's all you have? No intelligent response?

Your response is moronic. The argument would be about the amount the level of taxation, not funding essential services. No Republican supports defunding law enforcement or eliminating roads or schools.

We're already lacking funds for road maintenance, schools systems across the state are struggling to keep up financially once they've tapped all they can from local revenues, and law enforcement salary increases at the state and local levels haven't kept up with COL/inflation for years. Where you do think the money is going to come from if you cut taxes and stop collecting tolls?

So let’s raise the Dulles Toll Road toll more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northam up 14 in new poll. It’s game over, GOP. VA is rock rubbed D country now.

Sad it's destroyed like New Jersey

What poll has Northam up by 14 points

Quinnipiac.

That's an outlier. According to Real Clear Politics the average across 6 polls has Northam up and average of +5.8%, still a very close margin:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2017/governor/va/virginia_governor_gillespie_vs_northam-6197.html

Northam +7 (Fox News)
Northam +14 (Quinnipaic)
Northam -1 (Monmouth)
Northam +4 (Christopher Newport Univ)
Northam +6 (Roanoke College)
Northam +5 (Emerson)

Average Northam +5.8

That’s hardly a very close margin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northam up 14 in new poll. It’s game over, GOP. VA is rock rubbed D country now.

Sad it's destroyed like New Jersey

What poll has Northam up by 14 points

Quinnipiac.

That's an outlier. According to Real Clear Politics the average across 6 polls has Northam up and average of +5.8%, still a very close margin:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2017/governor/va/virginia_governor_gillespie_vs_northam-6197.html

Northam +7 (Fox News)
Northam +14 (Quinnipaic)
Northam -1 (Monmouth)
Northam +4 (Christopher Newport Univ)
Northam +6 (Roanoke College)
Northam +5 (Emerson)

Average Northam +5.8

That’s hardly a very close margin.

5-6 points can change pretty easily in the next 2.5 weeks. 14 like Quinnipiac shows would be very hard to catch in 2.5 weeks without a major news event.

2 weeks before the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton had a 6 point lead.

[Anonymous]

It is considered a close race because the polls have been off by five percent in the last 3 statewide elections

[Anonymous]

Why has Northam decided to remove Justin Fairfax from his campaign flyers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why has Northam decided to remove Justin Fairfax from his campaign flyers?

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Ralph Northam omitted any mention of Justin Fairfax, the party’s African American candidate for lieutenant governor, from about a thousand pieces of campaign literature, which Fairfax called a “mistake.” The incident has stoked tensions within the Democratic ticket, threatening to alienate African American voters three weeks before Election Day.

The palm cards with photos of Northam and Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) were produced for canvassers with the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA), which asked that Fairfax be excluded because it did not endorse him. Fairfax has spoken critically of two proposed natural gas pipelines that the union supports.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/reeks-of-subtle-racism-tensions-after-black-candidate-left-off-fliers-in-virginia/2017/10/18/de74c47a-b425-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.e3d7e605959e

So, is Northam a bigot or racist? Because, you can bet if he were Republican, he would be tagged with these labels.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, he is not. This is important for more than Va.

How so? The incumbent governor is a Democrat, and the state is solidly blue on the presidential level. I suppose that it would be significant if the RS lose their Assembly majority. I think it will be greatly reduced but they will cling to control.u

VA is "solidly blue"? Um, no. HRC won, but it was a tight race. Definitely a purple state.

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/virginia

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, he is not. This is important for more than Va.

How so? The incumbent governor is a Democrat, and the state is solidly blue on the presidential level. I suppose that it would be significant if the RS lose their Assembly majority. I think it will be greatly reduced but they will cling to control.u

The AG is utterly critical. The General Assembly, and the Gov, cannot and do not exercise the AG's constitutional authority. The Republican challenger is quite literally a Nazi sympathizer.

OMG. You don't realize how utterly moronic you sound, do you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The libs are destroying the state with high taxes and tolls

I know, isn't it crazy they think the state should provide us things like roads and schools and law enforcement? Nuts.

Don’t be dramatic.

That's all you have? No intelligent response?

Not the PP, but the response is far preferable to the usual liberal, "STFU." So intelligent.