Northam: Gun Control Proposals Would Not Have Stopped Beach Shooting

Someone finally asked Governor Northam the question he’s been unwilling to answer, and it wasn’t a reporter or a legislator. It was a teenager at Boy’s State who asked: How would the raft of gun control measures put forward by Northam and his fellow Democrats have stopped the tragedy inVirginia Beach? Northam didn’t have a […]

House Democrats Blocking Hearings to Protect Preferred 2021 Nominee?

If nothing else, the timing is certainly suspect. Just days after House Democrats once again blocked a bipartisan hearing into the sexual assault allegations against Democratic Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax, Fairfax told the Richmond Times Dispatch he was considering a run for governor. Fairfax has been under fire since February, when two women came forward […]

House Democrats: What Part of No Don’t You Understand?

Virginia House Democrats are starting to sound a lot like a Meghan Trainor song. NO. House Minority Leader Eileen Filler-Corn shot down yet another effort by House Republicans to hold bipartisan hearings on allegations against Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax this week. Calling a the attempt to give two alleged victims of sexual assault a “partisan […]

Herring Slams Kaine Actions Post VA Tech: “Nothing has changed”

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring had harsh words for former Virginia Governor now Sen. Tim Kaine on Tuesday. Speaking to the Roanoke Times, Herring lamented what he called inaction on the part of the General Assembly and Congress since the massacre in Blacksburg in 2007. “Twelve years ago, after the horrific shooting at Virginia Tech, […]

Mark Herring Has Convenient Epiphany on Marijuana Legalization

Attorney General Mark Herring jumped on the marijuana bandwagon this week, calling for legislators to end prosecution for simple possession of small amounts of the drug. Writing in an op-ed in the Daily Press, Herring argued that Virginia’s current system isn’t working. “It is needlessly creating criminals and burdening Virginians with convictions,” he wrote. “…And […]

Democrats Cheer Court Ruling Overturning Districts Democrats Supported

It didn’t take long for Virginia Democrats to begin moralizing after Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The 5-to-4 ruling held that the House of Delegates had no standing to appeal a court ruling that required a number of districts to be redrawn due to how the House and Senate handled issues of race. “When we […]