Virginia's Public Square
Virginia's Public Square
“They need to be heard, but we need to get to the truth,” Virginia Governor Ralph Northam said on the sexual assault scandal surrounding Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax. Well, House Speaker Kirk Cox said yesterday that Republicans “stand ready to proceed.”
This is in stark contrast from what Senator Mark Warner said in early February after Governor Ralph Northam’s extraordinarily odd press conference, which included an attempt to moonwalk.
Pro-life advocates will convene on Bank Street when the General Assembly gets back to business this week to “reject abortion extremism,” and show their disgust of those who supported the highly controversial late-term abortion bill and Governor Ralph Northam’s “infanticide” comments.
Governor Ralph Northam is proposing increases in tractor-trailer registration fees and gas taxes statewide to put funding into the Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Plan and other roadway projects throughout Virginia.
Approximately 10,000 Virginians with autism will now have increased access to healthcare coverage, regardless of their age.
Considering the waning use of the death penalty in the Commonwealth, a stay on executions may not even be needed.
Governor Ralph Northam vetoed bills set to curb the creation of sanctuary cities in Virginia and require correctional facilities officials to notify federal immigration authorities when undocumented immigrants are released from custody.
It is quite interesting that while the calls for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax to resign are continuing, the protests that have blanketed Gov. Ralph Northam’s reputation for racist photos have been absent for Fairfax’s sexual assault and rape allegations.
It is unlikely the Republican-controlled General Assembly will gather the two-thirds vote necessary to override Governor Northam’s veto.
“The Republican Party of Virginia is seeking further evidence of Mark Herring’s blackface and the witnesses to his racist past,” their statement reads.