Winning this year.. next year is what concerns me.
In Virginia, the GOP has a 51-48 majority in the House and a 21-19 majority in the Senate. The Governor and Lt. Governor are both rabidly anti-gun Democrats. Thus a 2 seat flip in the House and a 1 seat flip in the Senate (with the Lt. Governor breaking any ties) and every single anti-gun bill gets passed. Oh and Republican Senator Dick Black is retiring.
The reason they failed this year (and in previous years) is because the Republicans send them to “death star” subcommittees whose job it is to kill the bad bills.
Losing control of the subcommittees would be devastating to gun rights in the Commonwealth.
January 22nd, 2019 at 11:13 pm
Winning this is a wonderful thing. However its not over be vigilant and stand fast.
January 23rd, 2019 at 9:28 am
Winning this year.. next year is what concerns me.
In Virginia, the GOP has a 51-48 majority in the House and a 21-19 majority in the Senate. The Governor and Lt. Governor are both rabidly anti-gun Democrats. Thus a 2 seat flip in the House and a 1 seat flip in the Senate (with the Lt. Governor breaking any ties) and every single anti-gun bill gets passed. Oh and Republican Senator Dick Black is retiring.
The reason they failed this year (and in previous years) is because the Republicans send them to “death star” subcommittees whose job it is to kill the bad bills.
Losing control of the subcommittees would be devastating to gun rights in the Commonwealth.
January 23rd, 2019 at 2:52 pm
We’re screwed. The courts just redistricted 6 Republican delegates out of existence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/federal-judges-choose-va-redistricting-map-favorable-to-democrats-six-gop-house-districts-would-get-bluer/2019/01/22/401b2618-1ebc-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.af04d31fa540
January 23rd, 2019 at 3:10 pm
Stretch, the comments on that article are a classic case of “Dems accusing the Republicans of what the Dems are doing.”
January 24th, 2019 at 5:08 pm
Rick, If it weren’t for double standards they’d have no standards at all.