You were never middle of the road. You can lie to yourself and to other Trumpers all you like, but we know. You centrists are not moderates. You’re conservatives. Republicans. Own it. |
Says the extreme LWNJ who was never in his/her life "middle of the road." DP |
| Herring was actually a really decent guy and a good AG. Losing the AG race was a more ridiculous byproduct of nonsensical school closing + racist BS dogwhistles about CRT than the Governorship. At least the Governor controls those issues & the Dem candidate sucked. Not at all true of the incumbent AG. |
You can blame the irrational voters who voted for him. They are fully responsible for their own vile actions. |
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No. You need to face reality. Youngkin was elected directly because of the unnecessary and deeply harmful school closures, which lie directly at the feet of the Democratic power structure. The sooner that the Democrats recognize this truth, the better. You can continue to insult his voters all you want. But the people who really elected Youngkin are the many reliable Democrats who stayed home because they were so disgusted by the school closures. Youngkin won because people were angry at the fact that their kids weren’t educated for 18 months. Democrats used to be seen as the party of education, and they aren’t any more. It’s a foundational shift, and I worry it is going to turn the entire country over to the Republicans. People used to put up with Democrats because they trusted them to educate their kids. But that trust is lost, possibly permanently. |
You were mad at local school administrators and school boards because they took a global pandemic seriously. Youngkin won’t fix any of that. |
If you’re going to lie, at least fact check first. The 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial was actually the highest turnout in history including 2017, 2013, 2009, and 2005. 2021 - 3.2 million voters 2017 - 2.5 million voters 2013 - 2.1 million voters 2009 - 1.9 million voters |
I hope you enjoy the Republican dictatorship you and your kind are going to throw the door wide open for. |
Not as much as I will enjoy you squirming and screaming under the alleged Republican dictatorship. |
Uh, that makes no sense? Honestly it’s like the Democrats want to lose. |
No. That has nothing to do with anonymous comments on a mommy site. Some dumb voters believed GOP propaganda and/or were voting out of spite. Those voters should own it. They are adults. They shouldn’t blame others for their own bad actions. |
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I hope state workers enjoy what they apparently voted for. They need to get their resumes together.
Every Republican governor elected since 1970 has cut state jobs. If you don't think this is a big deal try going to the DMV right now. They are already down 30% of their workers. The state has a budget surplus so there is no need to cut jobs. George Allen cut 9% of state workers. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2011/sep/03/george-allen/allen-says-he-substantially-cut-state-government-w/ Gilmore promised to cut car tax but we still pay it, he failed, cut the state's IT, and threw those functions as well as a lot of VDOT function to private contractors. Bob McDonnell privatized more state functions and promoted off shore drilling. He also proposed auctioning off state liquor stores which employ 4k workers. He was not successful. Of course his administration was over shadowed by his indictment. " On January 21, 2014, McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were indicted on federal corruption charges for receiving improper gifts and loans from a Virginia businessman. They were convicted on most counts by a federal jury on September 4, 2014. McDonnell, the first Virginia governor to be indicted or convicted of a felony, was sentenced on January 6, 2015, to two years in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. However, he was free on bond during the subsequent appeals process.[8] On June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously overturned[9] McDonnell's conviction and remanded the case back to a lower court.[10] Less than three months later, the Justice Department announced that they would not prosecute the case again and moved to dismiss the charges against the former governor and his wife.[11] The case cost McDonnell over $27 million in legal bills" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_McDonnell I'm betting Youngkin will try to bring back off shore drilling and he will be bad for public space and resources. Those damn state parks aren't producing revenue and it will probably bother him. He's a corporate raider and his specialty is stripping assets and selling them off piece by piece. Enjoy. |
Is that a typo? Who did he hire - every law firm in the country? |
| You do realize that the premise of the thread is incorrect? The new AG fired 2 of the the 12 Civil Rights Division employees... |