#Governor Terry McAuliffe

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Virginia Governor DILFs

Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Ralph Northam, Chuck Robb, Terry McAuliffe, Douglas Wilder, Bob McDonnell, Colgate Darden, Gerald Baliles, Jim Gilmore, Westmoreland Davis, John N. Dalton, J. Lindsay Almond, Albertis Harrison, John S. Battle, William M. Tuck, James Hubert Price, George Allen, Thomas B. Stanley, Linwood Holton, Mills Godwin, Glenn Youngkin

[beardedmrbean]

As the battle over parental rights and protections for LGBT students heats up in Virginia, one state delegate said she will introduce a bill in the legislature's next session that would make it a crime for a parent or guardian not to affirm their child's sexual orientation or gender identity. 

The move is in response to Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's updated "model policies" on transgender students, which require students to use bathrooms and join sports teams based on their sex at birth, as opposed to their gender identity. 

Democratic Virginia Delegate Elizabeth Guzman told WJLA on Thursday she will introduce a bill that will expand the state's definition of child abuse and neglect to include parents and guardian who do not affirm their LGBT children. 

FORMER EDUCATION SEC. BETSY DEVOS SOUNDS OFF ON RUMORED BIDEN TITLE IX CHANGES: ‘A BRIDGE TOO FAR’

"The day that Governor Youngkin wanted to implement this policy, I immediately texted the policy lead of that committee and said, this is how we're going to push back," Guzman told the local news outlet. 

"It could be a felony, it could be a misdemeanor, but we know that CPS charge could harm your employment, could harm their education, because nowadays many people do a CPS database search before offering employment."

Guzman did not respond to questions from Fox News Digital about the details of her legislation. 

In her interview with WJLA, Guzman did not explain what she meant by affirming LGBT children. 

Youngkin's embrace of parental rights helped propel him to an upset victory over former democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe last year. 

The Virginia Department of Education's new "model policies" that were announced last month argued that the guidelines under the previous administration "disregarded the rights of parents and ignored other legal and constitutional principles that significantly impact how schools educate students, including transgender students." 

"This is about restoring power to parents," Youngkin told Fox News last month. 

"And let's just be clear, children do not belong to the state. They belong to families. And when a child is wrestling with this kind of decision, a parent should absolutely be the primary counselor adviser and help her in wrestling with this decision."

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Ex-governor questions Trump's brain: 'That elevator's not going to the top floor anymore' - Raw Story

[rjhamster]

Tonight: Restoring the Right to Vote in Virginia

Thursday, May 18 at 5 pm PT| 8 pm ET   Did you know that Virginia is one of only three states whose constitution does not automatically restore the right to vote to former felons?   In 2016 Governor Terry McAuliffe instituted automatic restoration of rights upon release from prison; Governor Northam continued the same practice, and more than 200,000 returning citizens had their rights restored.…

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Out-of-touch Dems are limping into Tuesday like a wounded dog wagged by its' woke tail: JOSH HAMMER

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Out-of-touch Dems are limping into Tuesday like a wounded dog wagged by its' woke tail: JOSH HAMMER

Josh Hammer is host of ‘The Josh Hammer Show,’ and a research fellow at the Edmund Burke Foundation

The fundamental problem for the Democrats is that they have quite simply gotten very bad at politics.

If that sounds like a sweeping statement, that’s because it is.

But how else to explain the fact that as voters consistently tell pollsters they care most about crime, inflation, the economy, and immigration, the Democrats obstinately refuse to abandon their dog-eared playbook of pro-abortion maximalism, ‘Orange Man Bad’-style January 6 fearmongering, and trite warnings about the purported threats to ‘our democracy’ if the opposition party wins a free and fair election.

The Democratic Party is, at this point, best described as a wounded dog wagged by an intersectional, woke-besotted tail.

It seems that the voters have finally had enough. In fact, Americans just can’t take it anymore.

The red wave did not materialize out of nowhere – it’s been building for months. And if the terminally out-of-touch Democrats hadn’t been no deaf, dumb and blind to the pleas of their own constituents, maybe they could have headed off the disaster.

Case in point: last November, Republican Glenn Youngkin stunned the nation by capturing the Virginia governorship, proving that the Old Dominion—which had gone for President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election by over 10 points, and hadn’t gone statewide for the GOP in any election since 2009—is still very much up for grabs.

The dominating issue in that race – the right of parents to control what their children learn in public schools.

Youngkin pledged to rid the state’s education system of critical race theory, the perverse idea that skin color – nearly above all else – determines an individual’s fate in America.

For his part, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe declared: ‘I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.’

The Democratic Party is, at this point, best described as a wounded dog wagged by an intersectional, woke-besotted tail. (Above: Left to Right) Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator John Fetterman, former President Barack Obama, Democratic candidate for Governor Josh Shapiro, and President Joe Biden on November 5, 2022 in Philadelphia

And that was all she wrote.

White women, who broke for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, voted overwhelmingly for Youngkin.

The media and political establishment were shocked. But the cable news carnival barkers said they knew why it happened.

Virginians are ‘racist’ they declared, despite the fact that Youngkin’s lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears, is a black woman and his attorney general, Jason Miyares, is a Latino man.

‘I can assure you,’ declared MSNBC’s (now-former) host Tiffany Cross. ‘This is about the fact that a good chunk of voters out there are OK with White supremacy. Let’s call a thing a thing. Actually, scratch that. They are more than OK.’

Ever since, politicos have been debating whether the results that evening were aberrant, or whether they would prove prescient for the breadth and depth of Republican pickups—that is, the scale of the red wave—during the 2022 midterm elections.

As we finally enter the campaign’s final days, the answer is increasingly clear: very prescient. The red wave is very real, and Democrats should prepare accordingly for heavy losses Tuesday evening.

True, a quick glance at some of the polling numbers might give a somewhat different impression.

In the increasingly Trump-y and quintessential Rust Belt state of Ohio, Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance has struggled to put away Democratic candidate Rep. Tim Ryan. Incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has served two previous terms, is nursing a similarly small polling lead in the Badger State. Meanwhile, the Senate races in the ‘big four’ states this cycle of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada all appear to be nail-biters.

But the situation is more complicated than that. To start, some of the other polling numbers right now are indeed remarkable.

In the reliably Democrat state of New York, gubernatorial challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is within clear striking distance of incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY); indeed, Trafalgar Group, one of the nation’s most accurate pollsters the past three election cycles, had Zeldin narrowly ahead in one recent poll.

In Oregon, a once-purple state that has become a liberal bastion over the past 15-20 years, Republican gubernatorial nominee Christine Drazan is poised for a huge upset victory.

In the Granite State, Republican challenger Don Bolduc—once dismissed as a ‘far-right’ gadfly—now runs even with vulnerable incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and has all the momentum on his side.

Some of the polling cross-tabs are also incredibly bullish for the GOP; as The Wall Street Journal reported this week, the all-important white suburban woman voting bloc has swung toward Republicans by an astonishing 27 points just since August, reminiscent of the pro-Youngkin surge in Virginia.

As the Journal explained, this ‘suggests that the topic of abortion rights has faded in importance after Democrats saw energy on that issue this summer in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.’

Put another way, the ‘post-Dobbs backlash,’ which we saw most clearly in Kansas in early August, when pro-choice voters mobilized to defeat a pro-life amendment to the state constitution, is no more.

White women, who broke for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, voted overwhelmingly for Youngkin (above) in November 2021.

The fundamental problem for the Democrats is that they have quite simply gotten very bad at politics.

There is also increasing evidence other voting groups once thought to be loyal Democratic voters are shifting.

This may finally be the electoral cycle where Hispanic voters, even if they do not become a majority-Republican national voting bloc, will move decisively toward the GOP.

Hispanics are also sick of being called ‘Latinx’ by clueless liberals, who decided that they need a name change.

Mexican-born Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) shocked the world in June with her special election victory in Texas’s 34th congressional district, an 85% Hispanic district.

Flores’ victory corroborates the tremendous Republican gains in Texas’s heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley region, which President Donald Trump closely contested in 2020 in such overwhelmingly Hispanic counties as Starr County (which he narrowly lost) and Zapata County (which he won).

In Nevada, Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo are closely competing for the Silver State’s crucial Hispanic voting bloc.

In my own state of Florida, where all signs point to election night romps for Republican incumbents Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio, the only two questions are whether the two men will outright win the statewide Hispanic vote and whether they will win the state’s most populous county, 70% Hispanic Miami-Dade County.

A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Florida has not won Miami-Dade County since Jeb Bush—who speaks fluent Spanish and whose wife is Mexican—in 2002.

Finally, follow the campaign money, instead of just the horse-race numbers.

Democrats are now scrambling to shore up Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney, who is in serious jeopardy of losing his Hudson Valley, New York-area seat.

At the U.S. House level, the DCCC is sacrificing what should be toss-up races in no less an iconic blue state than California to secure reelection for embattled incumbents competing in congressional districts Biden won by double digits in 2020.

Mexican-born Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) shocked the world in June with her special election victory in Texas’s 34th congressional district, an 85% Hispanic district.

All signs point to election night romps for Republican incumbents Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio, the only two questions are whether the two men will outright win the statewide Hispanic vote and whether they will win the state’s most populous county, 70% Hispanic Miami-Dade County. (Above) DeSantis on November 6, 2022 in Sun City Center, Florida

And at the U.S. Senate level, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has deployed money to no less a liberal enclave than Washington State, where incumbent Sen. Patty Murray is facing an inspired challenger in the form of Republican Tiffany Smiley.

The red wave, of course, will not lift every single candidate in a close race.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) is set to trounce inveterate election-denier challenger Stacey Abrams, but that does not necessarily mean Kemp’s coattails will drag controversial Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker across the finish line in his bid to dethrone incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA). (I do predict a Walker victory.)

In Arizona, Republican Kari Lake appears poised for a gubernatorial victory (and future national political superstardom), but it is yet unclear whether she can help Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters beat incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ). (I do predict a Masters victory.)

And finally, even as late-breaking Keystone State voters may tip the scales to Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz following John Fetterman’s indescribably disastrous recent debate performance, it is unlikely Republican candidate Doug Mastriano can beat Democrat Josh Shapiro in the gubernatorial race.

In the final count, I predict Republicans nab a 54-46 Senate majority.

All close races will break their way; such is the nature of a wave year.

Republicans will also increase their partisan share of the nation’s governor mansions, and will likely net out with 31 governors (with upward of 34 seats possible).

Democrats will be forced to ponder what went wrong. Perhaps next time around, they might consider focusing just a little bit on what voters actually want to hear.

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Barack Obama to Campaign for Democrats in Three Key Swing States

Barack Obama to Campaign for Democrats in Three Key Swing States

Days after it was reported he was avoiding campaigning in this year’s midterm elections, it was announced Saturday that Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail in three key swing states next weekend. Obama campaigned for but could not save Terry McAuliffe in last fall’s Virginia governor race. File screen image. Obama is set to rally in Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Obama’s campaign swing…

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Glenn Youngkin Defends Endorsing Election Denier Kari Lake For Arizona Governor

Glenn Youngkin Defends Endorsing Election Denier Kari Lake For Arizona Governor

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on Sunday defended his decision to endorse Kari Lake, a far-right election denier, for governor of Arizona, and to campaign with her later this month. Speaking to CNN’s “State of the Union,” Youngkin said he won his race against former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe in November 2021, becoming the first Republican to win the office since 2009, by building a broad…

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When Republicans lose power, they spend their lame duck session changing the laws to neuter their successors. Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania all have Democratic governors but Republicans control the legislatures, so they stripped the governor of any real power before they were sworn in and could veto the changes. Same thing in Kansas and Louisiana and Kentucky; they can't appoint senators anymore, the legislature does. And in Arizona the Secretary of State has been stripped of her power to oversee elections because Republicans want to fuck around without oversight. Now the locals can do whatever they want without a big bad Democrat looking over their shoulder to prevent them from doing the very shit they cry foul of from 2020 (which didn't exist them but will exist in the future thanks to them). In Florida, the only statewide Democrat is the commissioner of agriculture, which may as well be the assistant vice lieutenant co-manager of the underwater basket weaver committee for all she's allowed to do.

What I'm saying is that the outgoing Democrats in Virginia have a chance to fuck over Youngkin and the incoming Republicans if they so desired. They have 2 months to pass whatever legislation they want to neuter his power, and they have so many examples to choose from thanks to their colleagues across the aisle. Follow the Republican example. Don't let your opponents hold a scrap of power. Do everything you can to hold them back. If they don't like it, they have no one to blame but themselves; they're the ones who did it in the first place, so they don't get to complain when their tactics are used against them.

But who am I kidding? Democrats will never do that. They'd never be ALLOWED to do that, even if they wanted to. The public expects more from the Democrats, they're always held accountable where Republicans are allowed to do whatever they want with no remorse, so public opinion would switch against them in ways it never switches against the Republicans. On top of that, the courts wouldn't let them do it either. The courts consistently let the Republicans get away with this kind of shit, but that's because the Republicans have spent the last decade packing the courts with right wing judges to get favorable rulings, so of course they wouldn't let the Democrats do the same thing. The inconsistency is the point. They don't want long-standing precedent, they want everything to be decided on a case by case basis so they can put their thumbs on the scale every time. They want a dynamic judiciary that they can manipulate, one that will change their minds whenever it's no longer advantageous to them. That's the goal. They want two systems, political apartheid, "one set of rules for us, one set for everyone else."

Until Democrats come to terms with that, all of their victories will be short term and meaningless, and all their failures will be tragic and avoidable.

[tomorrowusa]

Virginians will get a second chance in a year to vote against Donald Trump.

The state is holding an off-off-year election for governor and Republicans have nominated a Trump clone for the office.

His name is Glenn Youngkin (AKA: Trumpkin). He’s like a Donald Trump who has graduated from charm school. He holds the same anti-democratic and reactionary views as Trump but voices them in a more highfalutin way.

Trumpkin is running against former Gov. Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe restored voting rights to 173,611 ex-felons when he was previously governor. Under Virginia law, he had to do so by signing 173,611 individual documents by hand. Terry is the direct opposite of voter-suppressing Republicans who would restrict voting to white Fox News viewers if they could.

We know how important state government can be. Gov. Greg Abbott is desperately trying to force misogynistic restrictions on abortions in Texas. Gov. Ron DeSantis wants everybody in Florida to get COVID-19 to please a campaign contributor who has a stake in a pharmaceutical company which claims to have a treatment for the virus.

So if you’re in Virginia, vote for Terry McAuliffe on November 2nd. If you know anybody in Virginia, remind them to vote. We can no longer take democracy for granted; the states as a whole are as important as the federal government.

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Reminder that tomorrow November 2, 2021 is Election Day for:

Colorado

Maine

New Jersey

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Texas

Virginia

Washington state

And Election Day for Louisiana is November 13.

Get your ballots turned in ASAP if you haven't already.

[instntnoodle]

the mess that is charlottesville shakes me to my core.

this is not the virginia i know and love. this is not the place i call home. now that these nazis have reared their ugly heads to the light, i want to burn them all to dust. 

i’m so grateful to governor mcauliffe for having the nerve to call them what they are - nazis, bigots, white supremacists, for telling them that there’s no place for them in virginia or in our country, for calling trump out on his hate speech and and for truly doing the best he can while he and the rest of us are in so much pain.  i’m grateful for cville police and medical staff who are working bravely and tirelessly. i’m grateful for everyone who’s still out there, not backing down from the intimidation of these disgusting people. i’m grateful to heather heyer for sacrificing her own life to fight against the pure evil that still exists in this country.

out here in nyc hearing people talk about virginia, how this is what we look like, hurts me. be angry. be angry about the whole situation, about the greater problem this speaks to. but don’t let this become your image of virginia - this is not what virginia looks like. 

virginia is better than this, and there are people out there trying to prove it right now.

[rjhamster]

Restoring the Right to Vote in Virginia, May 18

Thursday, May 18 at 5 pm PT| 8 pm ET   Did you know that Virginia is one of only three states whose constitution does not automatically restore the right to vote to former felons?   In 2016 Governor Terry McAuliffe instituted automatic restoration of rights upon release from prison; Governor Northam continued the same practice, and more than 200,000 returning citizens had their rights restored.…