McAuilffe returns to heavy-handed approach on Medicaid expansion… before doing exactly what Speaker Howell and the General Assembly tells him to do.

Virginia's Public Square
Virginia's Public Square
McAuilffe returns to heavy-handed approach on Medicaid expansion… before doing exactly what Speaker Howell and the General Assembly tells him to do.
The clear message from this poll is that the fringe hate groups are very fringe hate groups, and almost all Americans have completely rejected and disavowed their hatred.
Northam’s position on Confederate iconoclasm has seen his handlers go from full-throated enthusiasm to a very rapid backtracking over the last few days
Being able to condemn extremism in whatever form it takes is not the practice of moral equivocation, but desperately needed moral consistency.
At least now Virginians know that Northam is willing to bargain with just about anything to become governor.
…and so the For Sale sign goes up on the Governor’s Mansion. Or at the very least, its policies.
Most significant? The Virginia PBA endorsed Herring over Cuccinelli in 2013 — a sea change in a Virginia environment supposedly leaning the Democrats way.
Embattled Democrat Ralph Northam continues to lose ground in the very constituencies that were supposed to make him a compelling candidate.
Republican nominee Ed Gillespie keeps his word and holds the line on Confederate war memorials in Virginia.
Something has to give, and if there’s a solution to be found? Start where folks are hurting the most — in the City of Richmond.