Regardless, as always, financing is set to become the main problem to improve traffic congestion on Interstate 95.
Virginia GOP, Fairfax NAACP To Protest Northam At Dave Marsden Fundraiser
Where Virginia Governor Ralph Northam goes, protesters shall follow.
2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates Begin To Make Their Way To Virginia
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is scheduled to make appearances all over Virginia next week as the Commonwealth becomes a 2020 battleground state.
Speaker Kirk Cox On The Honor of Public Service
Speaker Kirk Cox leads with this heartfelt ad that tells you precisely what is at his core and why he is a conservative in the first places — the honor of public service.
Pretty powerful ad.
One of the key things Cox touches on the advertisement is his elevation to Speaker of the House, a role he entered as Republican fortunes nosedived across Virginia.
Nevertheless, Cox has not only brought a steady hand to the wheel of government, but he has also shored up support back home — who need few reminders that Kirk is still working for them.
A textbook ad… but one that shows you how lucky Virginia is to have Speaker Kirk Cox behind the dais.
Terry McAuliffe May Use His Alligator Wrestling Skills Against Trump In 2020
Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) teased his intentions about jumping into the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary by using Twitter to go after President Donald Trump.
In a series of strange tweets, McAuliffe posted a meme of a crab on top of an alligator, which is supposed to represent Trump, for some reason. This would also imply that the crab represents McAuliffe, which is also interesting.
On Wednesday, McAuliffe, a man who will do anything for money, also told attendees at the North America’s Building Trades Union (NABTU) conference an amusing story about his alligator wrestling skills and how that would play into his 2020 bid for the White House.
“[Out] of all the candidates running, how many have actually wrestled a 280-pound, eight-foot alligator for a political contribution for $15,000?” he said. “If I can wrestle an alligator, I can sure as hell wrestle Donald Trump, boy, and that would be worth it. And you’d pay money to watch that debate.”
McAuliffe also posted a picture of himself on Twitter from 1980 in which he wrestled an alligator in exchange for a contribution to President Jimmy Carter’s campaign, which is juxtaposed with a picture of Trump.
McAuliffe’s comments about wrestling President Trump are not the first time he has spoken in an aggressive fashion about the commander in chief.
In January of last year, McAuliffe fantasized with fellow liberal Chris Matthews during an interview on MSNBC’s “Hardball” when Matthews asked the outgoing governor about what he would do if President Trump ever “got in his space.”
McAuliffe replied, “You would have to pick him up off the floor,” adding, “That would be the last time Donald Trump ever did that.”
Recently, McAuliffe told conservative radio host John Fredericks that he is “very close” to making his decision on whether or not he will run for president. If his pre-campaign teasers are any evidence of what he will do in the next 19 months, McAuliffe is set to campaign weird, quickly.
Amid Racial Scandal, Northam To Cast Shadow Over Dave Marsden Fundraiser
After calling for Governor Ralph Northam’s resignation following the release of a racist photo just two months ago, Fairfax’s Democratic State Senator Dave Marsden is now featuring him as the headliner of his fundraiser.
AG Barr Suggests That ‘Spying Did Occur’ On Trump’s Presidential Campaign
During a Wednesday Senate budget hearing, Attorney General William Barr’s testimony was riddled with inquires into the investigation regarding collusion between Russia and the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump and the release of White House Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly 400-page report. Though, one of the main takeaways from Barr’s responses was that he believes “spying did occur” on Trump’s presidential campaign, also suggesting the origins of the Russia investigation may have been mishandled.
Barr, however, did not specify what “spying” in particular had occurred, but may have implied about a situation regarding a surveillance warrant the FBI obtained on an associate of Trump’s campaign.
This news comes after Washington has been reacting to Barr’s four-page letter he sent to Congress detailing the findings of the Mueller report. After much contention with the news of the report through the attorney general, lawmakers demanded a release of the full report.
A redacted version of the special counsel’s investigation findings was said by Barr to be coming forth within one week.
Nevertheless, the attorney general is set to review the origins of the 675-day investigation, which stated Trump’s presidential campaign did not collude with the Russian government, and explained the evidence revealed in the investigation was “not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.”
Regardless, the tides may begin to shift in the president’s favor as the focus will now be on who spied on his 2016 campaign.
Barr told senators on Wednesday he believed the Trump campaign had been spied on, but “the question is whether it was adequately predicated,” AP reports. He says he believes that “spying on a political campaign is a big deal.”
The Justice Department’s inspector general has already been investigating the early days of the FBI’s Russia probe, but Barr said he is looking to pull together the different reviews underway within the DOJ and see if there are remaining questions that need to be addressed.
SCOTUS Ruling On Right-To-Work Shows Nearly All Workers Choose Not To Unionize
The Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME shows that right-to-work laws are not inherently union busting, but create an atmosphere wherein a union does not have to exist when workers are given freedom of choice.
Virginia’s Democrat-Led Executive Branch Suffers Hit In Approval Ratings After Scandals
Two months after the beginning of his racial scandal, Governor Ralph Northam has an approval rating of just 40 percent.
Trump, Pence Commit To Flipping Virginia Republican In 2020
The first push in flipping the Commonwealth red is the upcoming 2019 elections, with all 140 seats in the General Assembly on the ballot in November.