Anonymous
10/30/2021 15:42
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just saw a Youngkin ad that got me thinking. Youngkin is campaigning on cutting all kinds of taxes, but also claims he’s going to massively increase education funding. What funding is he planning to cut in order to pay for increased education funding while also slashing state tax revenues? I can’t find any explanation from the Youngkin campaign of how that math is supposed to work.
So you are ready to pay more taxes, more inflation, lower the standards of education, make the government bigger by voting for T Mac? That sounds like to believe in leftist ideology.
I’ll take that as a concession that you can’t make Youngkin’s math work either. Hint: if the math doesn’t work, he’s not going to do the things he claims he will.
I haven't seen the vouchers plan, but if the state is providing $10k per student to public schools, and $5k per student in vouchers, that leaves a chunk of money to spend on public schools.
That wasn’t the question. Try again.
Anonymous
10/30/2021 15:41
Subject: Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I, a DC resident who has voted blue since 2000 and will never vote for or support a republican again in my life, just received a text appeal from the Youngking campaign for money.
Oh, hell no. Talk about desperation.
Well I’m a former DC resident who left for VA. I’m ride or die with Youngkin. Having lived under one party rule in DC, no thanks!!!
That sounds like socialism.
Pretty much. High taxes, horrid schools, cars stolen off my street, 9 month waits for permits to do basic home repairs, rude government officials . . . And on and on. Already thrilled at being a new Virginia resident and will be even more thrilled if Youngkin can, by some miracle, win.
You all keep using the word socialism as a scare tactic but I don’t think you actually know what it means.
Anonymous
10/30/2021 15:41
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If Democrats really care about equity they will vote for McAuliffe. He’s serious about taking heat off local school boards by requiring boundary changes to get the right amount of socioeconomic and racial integration in schools. They will have to comply or accreditation and state funding goes bye-bye.
He is even going to make sure that affordable housing gets built where there is none now to help with this.
It’s bold, actually historic and when you read his plan you see he is serious!
These are all the reasons many Virginians will NOT vote for McAuliffe.
"Taking the heat off school boards" -- like the Loudoun County board that covered up and lied about a rape?
"Right amount of integration" -- Um, who decides what the "right amount" is? Do you recall the history of mandatory busing in this country?
The "you must comply" tone that the McAuliffe campaign has used throughout his campaign, particularly when talking to parents, is precisely what is most offensive to many voters.
To say nothing of this week's white supremacist cosplay stunt. . . .
This. PP is posting crap nobody cares about. What parents do care about? The school curriculum, school being in-person, mask mandates, and teacher retention as well as keeping school boards from shutting down for a year. Get out of your lala land.
Parents vote and they don't like what's going on in schools.
Anonymous
10/30/2021 15:40
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just saw a Youngkin ad that got me thinking. Youngkin is campaigning on cutting all kinds of taxes, but also claims he’s going to massively increase education funding. What funding is he planning to cut in order to pay for increased education funding while also slashing state tax revenues? I can’t find any explanation from the Youngkin campaign of how that math is supposed to work.
Grow the economy and you get more revenue. Eliminate wasteful spending.
One, virgin is in excellent shape financially. Why on earth would we mess without by slashing fairly low taxes?
Two, show me the wasteful downing in the Commonwealth. This is such a rote, automatic answer without any thought behind it.
Taxes were lower in Virginia fairly recently. They were raised by Governor Mark Warner. 3% income tax before that.
Anonymous
10/30/2021 15:37
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just saw a Youngkin ad that got me thinking. Youngkin is campaigning on cutting all kinds of taxes, but also claims he’s going to massively increase education funding. What funding is he planning to cut in order to pay for increased education funding while also slashing state tax revenues? I can’t find any explanation from the Youngkin campaign of how that math is supposed to work.
So you are ready to pay more taxes, more inflation, lower the standards of education, make the government bigger by voting for T Mac? That sounds like to believe in leftist ideology.
I’ll take that as a concession that you can’t make Youngkin’s math work either. Hint: if the math doesn’t work, he’s not going to do the things he claims he will.
I haven't seen the vouchers plan, but if the state is providing $10k per student to public schools, and $5k per student in vouchers, that leaves a chunk of money to spend on public schools.
Anonymous
10/30/2021 15:34
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Yea. And in NOVA no less. Meanwhile Terry’s rally in Alexandria yesterday consisted of 20 people standing in the rain. Until it was canceled, of course, as the candidate scrambled to deal with his latest self inflicted crisis
Much as Trump's rallies scared loyal Democrats into voting, I think these pictures will do the same. I know much of the crowd for the Alexandria rally this morning was young GOP/Hill staffers who were ordered by their bosses to go.
I thought it was too flooded there to hold rallies?
Anonymous
10/30/2021 15:34
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:
I think it was a poorly-done stunt. I get the message, but the delivery sucked. Windsor should stick to undercover videos.
At the same time, put blame where it’s due. This was the Lincoln Project and activists, not a political party.
No, it was the party.
There is an Olaf on Terry's team who gave it away with a Freudian slip. While they were still pretending it was real, he said the torches were a 'reference' to Charlottesville. Olaf knew it was his team making a reference to Charlottesville. You do not use that language if you think these were really white supremacists.
Anonymous
10/30/2021 15:21
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Youngkin def has the MO going into election day and will carry the votes down ticket. Dems going down big.
Anonymous
10/30/2021 15:11
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:
I honestly don't understand why people with media connections can be so stupid as to issue public statements like this. It seems like they ought to be savvy enough to want to make sure a story has been vouched first, but I guess the temptation to seek social media "likes" outweighs common sense.
Yep. They always want to be the first to pounce on a "story," especially if it embarrasses Republicans. How delicious that it completely backfired on everyone involved, including the idiot "reporters" who thought they had a gotcha moment. Little did they know...
They knew. That's why they were available to take the pictures.
Anonymous
10/30/2021 15:04
Subject: Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Terry McAuliffe is perpetual slime. He's done every cheat trick in the book, and then some. Just disgusting. Honest Democrats are ashamed of his ongoing behavior.
Don’t care. I’d literally vote for Satan himself even if he promised to eat my firstborn the next day before I’d vote for a republican.
That's awesome, comrade! We are relying on your!!!
Anonymous
10/30/2021 14:59
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous
10/30/2021 14:54
Subject: Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:Terry McAuliffe is perpetual slime. He's done every cheat trick in the book, and then some. Just disgusting. Honest Democrats are ashamed of his ongoing behavior.
Don’t care. I’d literally vote for Satan himself even if he promised to eat my firstborn the next day before I’d vote for a republican.
Anonymous
10/30/2021 14:51
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am going with teachers unions. Parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. I am so done with this era where everyone thinks they know more than experts.
Teachers' unions are not experts. Teachers unions are out to promote themselves--not the teachers and not the schools, and definitely not the students.
signed:
Experienced Teacher who learned this in my first year of teaching. Never saw anything over the years to change my mind.
Oh yeah? Where do you teach? In a public school system, or some kind of unaccredited bible-thumper private? I’m betting the latter based on your absurd post. It reads like typical anti-union trash talking points.
Union teachers are the only bulwark standing between society and the brainwashed spawn being raised and indoctrinated by their rightwing loon parents. If it weren’t for public school teachers offsetting all these idiot parents and their lunacy, we’d be up to our eyeballs in school age little fascists. Teachers are typically the only people exposing these kids to Progressive ideals and questioning the nonsense these children are being fed at home.
Assuming you aren't a troll, you are part of the problem. Many parents don't want teachers indoctrinating/pushing political ideologies in a public school classroom.
If you think teaching facts and kindness is a “political ideology” then private is probably a good choice for you.
Since when is it up to schools to “teach” kindness?
You must have missed Kindergarten.
Jee I don’t remember my kindergarten telling me that one the white kids in my class would grow up to be a corrupt cop and another a school shooter. If that’s your “kindness” lesson yeah let’s just stick to math.
Truth hurts, huh?
Anonymous
10/30/2021 14:50
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
And that right there is your problem as well as McAuliffe's. He's running a national campaign. Youngkin is running a local one.
Anonymous
10/30/2021 14:48
Subject: Re:Consolidated VA Elections Thread
Anonymous wrote:If Democrats really care about equity they will vote for McAuliffe. He’s serious about taking heat off local school boards by requiring boundary changes to get the right amount of socioeconomic and racial integration in schools. They will have to comply or accreditation and state funding goes bye-bye.
He is even going to make sure that affordable housing gets built where there is none now to help with this.
It’s bold, actually historic and when you read his plan you see he is serious!
I assume this is intended to scare people into voting for Youngkin.
What we’ve already seen from the Democrats is more prosaic. They will talk about equity for years rather than figure out where money needs to be spent to relieve school overcrowding, and then the most privileged will make sure boundary changes leave their own schools with next to no poverty. Or they’ll talk about the need for more affordable housing for years and then eventually some wealthy politicians will make sure that areas are upzoned for more multi-family with affordable housing set asides - again, not in their neighborhoods, but in someone else’s.
This is why some of is won’t support the Democrats now. It’s not that they have big plans; it’s that they prefer talk to action and the actions they do end up taking could not be any more hypocritical. Might as well have Republicans who’ll get things done quicker without all the vain, meaningless SJW posturing.