Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour could put 3.7 million Americans out of work, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. That didn’t stop all seven of Virginia’s Democrat Representatives from voting for a bill that would do just that earlier this week. “You know there’s not a a city or county in […]
A lawsuit brought by a former legislative aide to Del. Dawn Adams against the delegate alleges that Adams required her, a state employee, to work for her personal business without separate pay. Maureen Hains, who served as Adams’ campaign manager in 2017 before joining her legislative staff, alleges in a lawsuit that Adams required her […]
Wachsmann looks to bring fresh ideas and new leadership to an area of Virginia that has continued to see high poverty rates and unemployment.
Virginia Republicans have finally crossed the line: they’ve disappointed Democrat Governor Ralph Northam with their behavior. Writing in the Washington Post, Northam expressed his disdain for legislative Republicans who, instead of passing a raft of gun control and confiscation bills, send all pending legislation to the Virginia Crime Commission for study before a November vote. […]
Remember when Democrats used to say they supported reasonable gun restrictions, and “no one wants to take away your guns”? That time is over. Governor Northam wants to take away your guns, and House and Senate Democrats want to help him do it. A total of 24 Democrats in the House of Delegates and 17 […]
Republicans find new energy as national rankings make Virginia the best place to do business.
House Democrats made their priorities clear early in this week’s special legislative session on gun control — block aid to the City of Virginia Beach and victims of the May 31 shooting. It was quite literally the first thing they did. During the opening moments of the session on Tuesday, House Republicans introduced a resolution […]
It’s called a Pyrrhic victory: a win, but a win that so badly harms the winner that it may have well been a battle lost. For example, the situation now faced by Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring. With his “win” on a redistricting case at the U.S. Supreme Court, he may have sunk the whole […]
Less than 24 hours before a special session on gun control is set to gavel in, Governor Northam and his team still haven’t settled on a reason for calling it. Northam called legislators back to Richmond following the massacre in Virginia Beach on May 31, where 12 people were killed by a single gunman. The […]
The grassroots ain’t what they used to be, at least for Virginia Democrats. Del. Chris Hurst, D-Montgomery, took to Twitter on Monday to thank Democrats for their patience with his begging — a necessary evil, since they lack big donors. “To all of you who endure endless fundraising emails and tweets from Dems because we […]
