54% of Democratic lawmakers sponsored Kathy Tran’s late term abortion bill, in addition to Governor Ralph Northam, Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax, and Attorney General Mark Herring. The bill is supported by a majority of Virginia Democrats. Here’s the list.
Charging that he will work to reform Virginia’s criminal justice system, protect healthcare for those with pre-existing conditions, and battle against higher taxes and job-killing regulations, the former delegate from the 85th House District announces his campaign for his old seat.
Democrats are routing politically problematic corporate coal contributions to candidates through their caucus account, even as members tell their constituents they won’t take that money. This makes coal the caucus’s largest corporate donor of 2018.
A seasonal worker’s $500 paycheck was reduced to $14.52 after mandatory union dues deductions in a non-Right to Work state. Seasonal employees in Virginia would face the same predicament, if Democrats succeed in repealing Virginia’s Right to Work law.
Calls from freshmen Democrats Cheryl Turpin and Lee Carter signal a growing reversal from seventy years of bipartisan consensus on Virginia’s Right to Work law.
