“It has been one of the highest honors of my life to serve the citizens of the Commonwealth. I want to thank the citizens of Virginia Beach and Norfolk for giving me that privilege,” Wagner said.
Even though this is the second time Congress has voted to condemn anti-Semitism as a rebuke of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s (MN-5) “wrong and hurtful” comments against Israel, she was not named in the recent resolution, neither was she named in the first.
After 18 years in the Virginia General Assembly, Republican State Senator Bill Carrico announced his retirement, saying he has been “thankful” to serve Southwest Virginia.
Cody Weddle, a 29-year-old Virginia native working as a freelance reporter in Caracas, Venezuela, has been detained by Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorial regime for his coverage of opposition leader and interim president Juan Guaidó.
As the first-ever veto from President Trump will strike down the border wall rebuke, it could set up the first-ever Supreme Court case directly dealing with the formalization of the emergency powers of the commander in chief under the National Emergencies Act.
“The Republican Party of Virginia is seeking further evidence of Mark Herring’s blackface and the witnesses to his racist past,” their statement reads.
“Dinesh D’Souza and the rest of that group are an embarrassment to America. We can’t wait for them to exit our Commonwealth,” said a Virginia Democratic Party spokesman as “Blexit” came to Richmond over the weekend.
At a press conference this afternoon, Republican Delegate Steve Landes is set to announce his retirement from the Virginia legislature and announce his candidacy for the Augusta County Circuit Court Clerk.