The bill from Delegate Margaret Ransone (R-Westmoreland) would direct the State Board of Elections to appoint a commissioner that oversees the Department of Elections, eliminate two additional senior-level political appointees made by the governor, establishing a one full-time director of operations, and increase the term lengths for board members from four to six years.
“Look at two years, look at what has happened in two years with the United States on foreign policy. Now the United States is respected. Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do. They know that if we’re going to do something, we follow it through, and the President proved that,” U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said in the Oval Office following President Donald Trump’s announcement that she will resign at the end of 2018.
“I didn’t know Rod before,” President Donald Trump said Monday leaving the White House. “I’ve gotten to know him, and I get along very well with him.” He added at a previous press conference, “My preference would be to keep him and to let him finish up.”
“Six years ago, a national group of liberal donors began a systematic effort to attack the bipartisan redistricting plan adopted by the House, despite pre-approval by President Barack Obama’s Justice Department and overwhelming support from the African American members of the House. This coordinated, partisan effort cost taxpayers millions of dollars and is culminating with an overt attempt to install a court-drawn plan more politically favorable to Democrats than any politically-neutral plan that might emerge from a legislative compromise,” said Speaker of the House Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights).
“Economic development. As a socialist elected to public office, no other phrase gives me more heartburn,” said the Virginia House of Delegates representative from Manassas. Subservience to the state brings booming economies, Delegate Lee Carter believes.
The balance now stands 51-49 in favor of the Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh after weeks of allegations of decades-old sexual assault and an unprecedented agenda from Democrats to derail the confirmation hearings. Though, if either Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), or Joe Manchin (D-WV) decide to change their vote for Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence would cast the first ever tiebreaker vote, sending Trump’s pick to the high court.
“The facts were not the point after all, we get that now,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY said during a speech Friday morning. McConnell wants Republicans, after this debacle of a bitterly divided confirmation hearing process to, “send a message to the American people…facts matter, fairness matters, the presumption of innocence is sacrosanct.”
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta forecasts GDP growth at 4.1 percent in Q3 as chairman of the U.S. central bank Jerome Powell said at a conference that more economic growth is in store after half century-low jobless claims and a target goal of two percent inflation.
As Virginia’s $25 billion tourism industry is now the fifth largest employer, big production companies like Netflix and looking to make the Commonwealth their next home for their expansive production plans.
Following Governor Ralph Northam’s call to veto the GOP plan for legislative redistricting, Speaker of the House of Delegates Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights) said, “After weeks of feigning interest, the governor has admitted at last that he wants federal judges appointed by President Obama to draw a redistricting map to deliver a Democratic majority in the House of Delegates.”
