The lawmakers along with Northam are expected to push forward on priorities such as strengthening gun control laws and loosening abortion restrictions. Democrats will also have full control over redistricting after the 2020 census and could move forward on restoring voting rights to felons, a policy that former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe championed but Republicans partially blocked.This is another excellent reason to pick up the pace on decentralizing as many federal agencies as possible (by which I mean, moving them to other states). The shift toward Democrat power in Virginia has a lot to do with the explosive growth of the federal bureaucracy; many of these people have infested the northern counties and commute to federal jobs in D.C.
Update More from Monica Showalter: "Blue states emerge from expanding federal governments".
Virginia can now look forward to a solid-blue state with a Democratic governor, the one who still hasn't told us if he was the man in the Klan robes or the man in blackface in his school picture, along with a two-house, one-party Democratic state Legislature. And with that, it can look forward to a California model of governance — with soaring crime, soaring fecal matter on the streets, abundant needles, crooks out of jail, gun restrictions for the law-abiding, tax hikes, greenie boondoggles, corruption, soaring homelessness, drug addiction, and illegal immigration.Really a shame. When I moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1994, the state was definitely reddish, and getting redder. When I moved to Fairfax, in the northern part of the state, in 1998, we actually had a popular, long-serving Republican congressman. After he retired, his seat was won by the odious Democrat Gerry Connolly, who, in the congressional election a couple of years later, only managed to scrape up something like an 800-vote edge during an election featuring documented cases of voting machine "malfunctions" (practically all benefiting the donk, of course). The Republican, whose name I forget (and who, as a candidate, was easily forgettable) declined to request a recount, even though he was well within his rights to do so (no doubt, playing the traditional role of good GOP establishment loser). I read somewhere today that the Republicans didn't even field candidates in numerous state senate races this year. Without a rejuvenated GOP, Virginia is now probably reliably blue for the foreseeable future.
We're living in strange and ominous times, the like of which I've never seen before.
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I don't think we can blame this one on Californians, but the result is going to be the same.
I was one of the lucky ones. I managed to escape in a balloon during the Obama presidency.
Yeah, the democrats are working to take over the country at the county and state level. Washington and Oregon fell that way, and it appears they are looking at Idaho.
A curious thing about Washington -- while the legislature is solidly blue, the voting base is not always so. It depends on the initiative. A couple of anti-gun initiatives passed, in spite of well organized opposition. But in the election this week, an initiative that limits car tabs to $30 (I-976) is passing by a solid 11% lead. If it that one had failed, renewing vehicle registration would have risen into the hundreds of dollars every year -- with all that cash being poured in the Seattle area transportation networks.
The King County commissioners (which includes Seattle) voted solidly for that initiative, and are now planning to sue to have the initiative declared "unconstitutional" -- in spite of the fact that they have overwhelmingly supported other initiatives (such as the anti-gun initiatives I mentioned above), which are CLEARLY unconstitutional. There are tantrums from other lefties as well, all of whom are angry that their pet transportation project (light rail in the Seattle metro area) is on the ropes.
At the same time, a referendum (R-88) that rolled back an initiative (I-1000) that codified racial quotas in hiring and colleges. I-1000 rolled back the Washington Civil Rights Act.
I should note that Washington State has an odd initiative process -- once an initiative is submitted with enough signatures, the legislature has three options: they can pass the initiative as written; they can do nothing and send the measure to voters on the next ballot; or they can enact an amended version, in which case both the amended version and the original version appear in the next ballot.
For I-1000, the solidly blue legislature elected to pass the initiative as written, thereby codifying racial quotas. R-88 offered the voters to approve the action of the legislature, or reject it.
R-88, thus far, is being rejected by a 3.58% margin. In effect, the democrats in Olympia just got the finger from the voters. Works for me.
Not all ballots are in (Washington is vote by mail ONLY). So that could change, especially if the donks find any boxes of "misplaced" ballots. But the margins are such that blatant voter fraud would be necessary. And I don't think that the lefties in this state are willing to be that open about their corruption.
Yet.
Pardon the long rant -- I wanted to point out the obvious disparity in how the legislatures vote, versus the population. It's both encouraging and frightening.
Good info on the "inside baseball" of state and local politics, Jeff. Far too few people pay attention to that level of activity. If George Soros is interested (four of his state prosecutor candidates won in Virginia), the rest of us should be, too.
Another example of voters telling politicians to take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut:
https://www.wethegoverned.com/voters-crush-city-of-camas-78-million-tax-plan-by-9-1-vote-mayor-buried-by-write-in-ballots/
Vote by mail only, Washington state ballots? That's interesting, didn't realise some had that. As a Pol-Sci grad I'm supposed to know this stuff.
Related: I've met these "I'm ashamed to be American" Americans who puzzled me at first. Especially this guy who was a professor in my faculty:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/prof-robert-springborg
During the first Gulf War he was always on TV trying to undermine our sending support to the US, challenging our Prime Minister. Like he knew better than everyone in the world. Where do these people get this arrogant self-righteousness? I was face to face with him once, but just joked around in case my 'future career' was at stake (high hopes).
I mean he's an arrogant American SOB, who hates America, trying to tell the rest of us how to run our lives and countries. Talk about 'Yankee imperialist dog'. See the crazy contradiction?
My main mentor was an older Jewish U of Chicago Asia specialist who was totally opposite to Springborg and could stand up to him (would roll his eyes if you mentioned Hannah Arendt who he'd even met!). Not all Americans are like that, but this Springborg is a doozy. Must be an old Wilsonian or something, surprised he's still going around sowing trouble.
Really, who are these people?
Jeff,
... the margins are such that blatant voter fraud would be necessary. And I don't think that the lefties in this state are willing to be that open about their corruption.
Gov. Christine Gregoire says hi.
Bruce: I know the type. Complacent, self-satisfied, usually pompous. The very worst sort of pseudo-intellectual.
Gregoire slid in under the wire in terms of counts, Spiny -- a few thousand, IIRC. The old harridan was able to convince the courts there wasn't any fraud. Uh huh.
Currently, I-976 is ahead by 114,000 votes. That doesn't mean they won't try, of course. But that's a whole lot of votes to "misplace".
R-88 is a lot closer -- but I have to wonder if they'll take the risk of being caught without any potentia financial reward.
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