#  @vaplan2018 VAPLAN
VAPLAN posts on X about money, in the, public, finance the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::931934652490829824/interactions)
- [--] Week [------] -52%
- [--] Month [-------] +3,516%
- [--] Months [-------] +2,214%
- [--] Year [-------] +25%
### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::931934652490829824/posts_active)
### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::931934652490829824/followers)
- [--] Week [-----] +0.79%
- [--] Month [-----] +2.40%
- [--] Months [-----] +5.20%
- [--] Year [-----] +6%
### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::931934652490829824/influencer_rank)
### Social Influence
**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) [countries](/list/countries) [nba](/list/nba) [us election](/list/us-election) [nfl](/list/nfl)
**Social topic influence**
[money](/topic/money), [in the](/topic/in-the), [public](/topic/public), [finance](/topic/finance), [health](/topic/health), [law enforcement](/topic/law-enforcement), [dems](/topic/dems), [lg](/topic/lg), [education](/topic/education), [floor](/topic/floor)
**Top assets mentioned**
[SENATE (SENATE)](/topic/senate) [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Congratulations to @MarkKeam @BrewerForVa & @jonesjay on HB400 being signed into law creating the Fostering Futures Program supporting 18-21 year olds transitioning out of foster homes"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1242470443707248643) 2020-03-24T15:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Congratulations to @joelindseyva90 and @CreighDeeds on HB100/SB325 being signed into law allowing attorneys to better assess whether potential jurors will be able to be impartial during the sentencing phase of a trial even knowing the potential sentence range"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1242470445007482884) 2020-03-24T15:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"😂😭@marcussimon points out flip-flopping of House GOP: 🔄 Del OQuinn votes [--] times to ban personal use of campaign $ now kills it in committee 🔄 Speaker Gilbert in [----] asks to change House rules to discharge committee to take up constitutional amendments but opposes it today"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1491853906464460804) 2022-02-10T19:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Preliminary winners of Arlington County Board after tabulating the ranked choice votes"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1672358327093809156) 2023-06-23T21:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"👍 Every little bit helps @fatehinorfolk: While I cannot waive court costs or change the 17% interest that state law requires the Commonwealth to impose I can and have reduced that interest rate to the lowest possible number"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1689603632159670272) 2023-08-10T11:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Whoa He supports *climate activism* At a time like this when we are suffering every day from the extreme weather effects of climate change imagine supporting ACTIVISM Probably supports preventing gun violence too Just remembered I need to make a donation to @ssurovell"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1696558726759567581) 2023-08-29T16:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senator Janet Howell says in her goodbye speech on the floor that she and @SenLouiseLucas were only the 6th and 7th EVER women elected to the Virginia Senate. 😱"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1699476747803136029) 2023-09-06T17:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Sen Barker takes a nasty parting shot in his goodbye speech rather than choosing grace: I have trepidationI fear that you will have senators who are not prepared for the job who do not represent the will of the voters but those money interests who funded their campaigns"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1699479917807952379) 2023-09-06T17:49Z [----] followers, 26.2K engagements
"I see the GOP is moving forward with the war on women And a woman can be shamed and dragged through the mud by Republican peeping Toms for her own choices relating to her body Grab your red hooded capes my friends. The GOP *will* tell you what you *may* do with your body"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1701332913093026011) 2023-09-11T20:32Z [----] followers, 11.8K engagements
"Was just thinking this today. Its almost entirely negative attacks on Demsundoubtedly because they know on policy they lose badly"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1705005143475757383) 2023-09-21T23:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"So it would be a dream come true for Youngkin to serve as Vice President alongside Donald Trump. Kinda sad. For many of our past governors being Governor of this beautiful and prosperous Commonwealth was the dream job"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1706742908890554560) 2023-09-26T18:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Pay attention to THIS people Check YOUR voter registration (even if youre sure youre registered) at"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1711051481753772062) 2023-10-08T16:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Heres a thought: how about instead of leaving it to the whims of an administration to restore voting rights to who they feel like making mistake after mistake after mistake & then *investigating* the mistakes we make restoration of rights AUTOMATICput it in the Constitution"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1717522719284039973) 2023-10-26T12:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Unusual to see a joint House/Senate statement of priorities like this. Typically the House Dems have their priorities and the Senate Dems have their own and theres some overlap but thats about it. (I guess why we have two chambers.) Maybe a sign leadership is more connected"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1726720861259096494) 2023-11-20T21:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"That seemed to be a winning idea for them when they did the same exact thing last sessionoh wait"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1726880386809246127) 2023-11-21T08:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If were going to keep playing this weird and dumb game where we judge peoples intentions by how swiftly they can respond to things on social media at the very least we should do the due diligence to *check* said social media"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1731854603509981622) 2023-12-05T01:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Can confirm: she does not have dumbass written on her forehead. Whos excited to watch Youngkin deliver his budget proposal to the Senate and House money committees (which 👇 chairs) this morning 🥊"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1737477001441620450) 2023-12-20T14:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@KenCraigArt Across the board increase in the state sales tax and a new digital goods and services tax (Spotify etc.). The wealthiest people typically spend a small proportion of their earnings so are affected less than the middle-class by sales tax increases and more by income taxes"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1737901418193748234) 2023-12-21T18:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This Del Fowler bill would tie unemployment benefit duration to Virginias overall unemployment rate. Might be okay for those in the big jobs-producing cities in VA but makes hard times even harder for those in struggling areas of Virginia"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1740394888167108902) 2023-12-28T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Tara Durant now in Senate again tries to repeal the (highly-successful) pretext-stop ban. So we can hear again about all the murder cases solved by finding dead bodies in trunks of cars driving w/ tinted windows. Good luck in Judiciary chaired by @ssurovell .cc @JusticeFwdVa"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1740434033530601593) 2023-12-28T18:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The year is [----]. Virginia's population is at least 35% nonwhite. And the Republican House Caucus looks like this (photo on right): House of Delegates Seating Chart / Facebook https://t.co/H3AkIqfNPI House of Delegates Seating Chart / Facebook https://t.co/H3AkIqfNPI"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1742662496673018085) 2024-01-03T21:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@BreRVA @BillStanley Okay perfect good to know what's the most useful. Knowing an abbreviated summary in the alt-text is better than the link helps a lot--some of the summaries get way too long And I'll try to explain succinctly enough to use the link in the tweet whenever I can"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1743043250527645852) 2024-01-04T22:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Children of incarcerated people are "three times more likely than their peers to develop mental health problems. These same children are more likely to miss school get involved in antisocial behaviour violence and even crime." Society doesn't do enough to help these victims. The children of prisoners are forgotten victims. By me @CapX https://t.co/vLTJMr1uar The children of prisoners are forgotten victims. By me @CapX https://t.co/vLTJMr1uar"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744345130570510831) 2024-01-08T13:07Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"House Energy and Commerce committee returns to House Labor and Commerce. Again. (When GOP are in control the title reflects their priorities for business and corporations; when Dems are in control the title reflects the prioritization of workers.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1745142164827275434) 2024-01-10T17:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Literally the only thing worthwhile about Youngkin's State of the Commonwealth is watching @SenLouiseLucas's face throughout. (He's saying absolutely nothing of any substance because that's exactly what he's accomplished in two years as Governor and all he'll do the next two.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745194151048577531) 2024-01-10T21:21Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements
"Youngkin talking a lot about his "tax reform" (ie raising the state sales tax to pay for an expensive income tax cut that benefits the wealthy disproportionately. But I don't see any of his GOP legislators carrying that incredibly unpopular bill yet. 🧐"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1745198569307439551) 2024-01-10T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"LOVE this @PhilforVirginia bill creating a new millionaires tax bracket. Revenues specifically go towards basic aid funding for public education the Child Care Subsidy program and the Virginia Housing Trust Fund. #ShowMeYourValues"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1745240797077807613) 2024-01-11T00:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sen. Peake asks Ed. Sec'y Gudera: How will we know whether Administration's "all-in" program (for recovering learning loss from COVID) Is working She says they aren't requiring any assessments but points out success of *one student* who was at State of Commonwealth yesterday.🙄"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1745444648275886538) 2024-01-11T13:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate Public Education Committee subcommittee recommends reporting @AaronRouseVaBch school cardiac emergency response plan grant fund. (But will need to survive full committee and Finance committee.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1745526559518163325) 2024-01-11T19:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@HollySeiboldVA lays it all out in House Public Safety in questions to new VADOC chief re: human rights violations in prisons--widespread black mold unsanitary conditions no AC inedible food. He responds they look into every complaint & doesn't ever just assume they're false"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1745800226336633187) 2024-01-12T13:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Suzanne1160 You mean a public information campaign about the dangers of social media to children's brains and emotional wellbeing (I wholeheartedly agree if so.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1746551170850545953) 2024-01-14T15:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Senators @JCarrollFoy and @lashrecseaird are both on the Courts AND General Laws committees. Courts meets Monday morning at 8am and can run for hours and hours usually ending around [--]. General Laws meets Monday morning at 10am. So.should they clone themselves"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746914170409250973) 2024-01-15T15:16Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate Commerce and Labor after lengthy and heated discussion reports @AaronRouseVaBch skill games machine bill not to General Laws (as it was requested and where many gaming bills go) but straight to Senate Finance"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1746996003415241173) 2024-01-15T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Just noticed @KrizekForVA HB528 that would keep HOAs from disallowing managed conservation landscaping (ie environmentally sensitive supportive of wildlife and avoiding invasive species including rain gardens etc.) Nice bill 🦋💐🌸🌻🌿🍃"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1747418407622824000) 2024-01-17T00:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Tomorrow afternoon big docket in Senate General Laws incl.: ✅ solar-ready roofs on new govt buildings (@BarbaraFavola) ❌ Mandatory employer use of E-verify (Sturtevant) ✅ Free first two hours of FOIA request work (@pwcdanica)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1747426168360284406) 2024-01-17T01:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@cheryldgb No not at all. I just think they're inflating their needs (which gives it one more aggravating way for the bill to ultimately die in finance/approps)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1747595959503032494) 2024-01-17T12:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ZachLincolnVA On your phone at least you can make a shortcut to it that uses the bird icon if that's helpful at all. (I still call Fedex Kinko's and it probably hasn't been Kinko's since before you were born lol.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1747618100864761991) 2024-01-17T13:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today we seem to have some rockabilly maybe on the Senate committee/floor stream 🎶"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1747665969730760844) 2024-01-17T17:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"These felony homicide bills in Senate Courts are the equivalent of saying if you sell someone your gun and THEY then use it to kill someone YOU are guilty of murder. They don't even want civil liability for that let alone criminal"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1747707379116835252) 2024-01-17T19:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@marcussimon bill to end common law crime of suicide hits small bump in the road as Commonwealth's Attorneys want to protect ability to get search warrants to investigate (to rule out murder)--to get a search warrant need to suspect a crime. Taken by for the day to address"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1747717938906591574) 2024-01-17T20:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Tomorrow morning in House HHS health professions sub: ✅ great bill by @NadariusClarkVA to create loan repayment program for mental health professionals Orrock bill req. those seeking hysterectomy receive info from anti hysterectomy org & anatomical pictures two weeks before"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1747751684334407993) 2024-01-17T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@melissa_seyba @NadariusClarkVA It's my understanding--from the rabbit hole I went down after seeing this bill--that there is some incidence of quack doctors pushing this procedure on people who perhaps don't understand what they're getting into. Not sure if that's just tin foil hat theories or a real issue"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1747805018630107365) 2024-01-18T02:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Congratulations to @SalimVASenate on getting his first bill--and a difficult bill--passed in the Senate today to change misdemeanor sentences to [---] days from a year to avoid potential deportation consequences"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748053563014558176) 2024-01-18T18:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Virginia Catholic Conference and @vainterfaith out here in House Public Safety Firearms subcommittee testifying in support of @HelmerVA assault weapon ban. Because they believe it will save lives"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1748121423946621154) 2024-01-18T23:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Del Cordoza suggests an assault weapon ban *only* saving 5% of gun deaths shouldn't be passed bc it doesn't specifically address gun deaths in Black communities to which @marcussimon points out that Dems have worked hard on community-based interventions that the GOP unfunded"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1748127999151481032) 2024-01-18T23:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Before I shut down for the night I want to give a shoutout to @NadariusClarkVA for doing an awesome job at his first time chairing a subcom Public Safety Firearms is one of the hardest subcom jobs and you rocked it--perfect combination of fair respectful and efficient 👏👏"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748184025192099929) 2024-01-19T03:22Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"House Crim Sub kills attempt to roll back criminal justice reform that removed the presumption against bail. The presumption should be that a person is innocent (and thereby should not be held in jail awaiting trial) and the burden should be on the Commonwealth to prove otherwise"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1748407038596538850) 2024-01-19T18:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"New bill from @Keys_Gamarra would require apartment building owners to move back the date when cooling services begin to April [--] (formerly May 15). Good news for everyone who's sweated it out miserably for that month. #climatechange"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1748703223832048048) 2024-01-20T13:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In argument against waiting period bill Sen Obenshain says he thinks they addressed the mental health/suicide issues in a bipartisan way with the Voluntary Do Not Sell bill and that is the way to go not a waiting period. He of course voted against that good @ssurovell bill"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1749472392609407048) 2024-01-22T16:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Interesting vote split on @DRSuetterlein "sore loser" bill that would prevent those running in one party's primary from quitting the primary (after the voting has begun and their name is on the ballot) and running as an independent or as the nominee for the other party"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1749489135977419148) 2024-01-22T17:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's fascinating to hear the people argue over and over when it comes to guns that laws don't work and there's no point of making gun laws to keep people safe. Who knew there were so many anarchists in Virginia"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750637651034574872) 2024-01-25T21:51Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@CandiMundonKing @AdeleMcClure_ In an unexpected twist nobody makes a motion to report Freitas and Griffin bills to allow permitless concealed carry. None of the ten GOP delegates on the committee. The bills die for lack of motion"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1750880836679782876) 2024-01-26T13:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Every year legislators search for some utterly convoluted campaign expenditure scenario that they're worried about being prohibited under @marcussimon ban on personal use. You wouldn't guess that [--] states and the federal government have managed to tackle this tricky problem.🙄"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1750885708229754964) 2024-01-26T14:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Per the patron Amazon requested that news sports entertainment and e-commerce be explicitly excluded from the definition of social media platform in HB1161 to restrict (parental consent) minors' access to social media. Naturally 🙄🙄 Wouldn't want kids to stop SPENDING MONEY"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1751956285124124954) 2024-01-29T13:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Throwing "entertainment" in that list seems extremely vague (is TikTok not "entertainment"). Northern Virginia Technology Alliance says the definition is overly broad and that the amendments sound like they'd make it more confusing"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1751958714943246794) 2024-01-29T13:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Del Griffin says after listening to the testimony (by a youth pointing out that for an LGBTQ+ youth in an unsupportive household social media provides a healthy place of acceptance) he's more inclined to support the bill. Of course"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1751958716658696350) 2024-01-29T13:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"HB1161 requiring parental consent (vaguely defined and confirmed) to access social media (also vaguely defined in the bill and possibly in a confounding way) is laid on the table in House subcommittee. GOP all vote not to kill despite having spoken about the bill's flaws"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1751959427463205110) 2024-01-29T13:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Del @MichelleforVA10 knows Del Hodges' bill better than he does as he doesn't seem to know his bill on "addictive" social media tactics includes "gamification" which she is concerned would reach into educational tools that use gamification"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1751961072053964819) 2024-01-29T13:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@JCarrollFoy says in response that people shouldnt have to get convictions to get services and she finds it abhorrent that our jails are the largest providers of mental health care. Ditto what she said. Sen Stuart over and over suggests how important it is for autistic people to get arrested and charged and caught up in the criminal justice system so that they can get the help they need (and then have the charges dismissed). What a screwed up world we live in. Sen Stuart over and over suggests how important it is for autistic people to get arrested and charged and caught up in the criminal"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1751992084418977943) 2024-01-29T15:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Sen Obenshain says @JCarrollFoy bill to create standards of responsible conduct for gun industry manufacturing sales advertising etc & make civil causes of action would put every gun company out of business. The sky is falling. But didn't fall when CA DE & NY passed this law"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1752002238078243343) 2024-01-29T16:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"McDougle makes another specious argument about why don't we have this kind of liability and accountability for fentanyl makers but we do for gun makers @ssurovell points out that we LITERALLY DO allow ppl to sue drug makers for irresponsible conduct"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1752002731399696505) 2024-01-29T16:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"There's always gotta be that ONE guy right This is the vote on whether to extend curbside voting for people with disabilities to people with non-physical disabilities upon request. (Because for some ppl w developmental disabilities the polling place can be overwhelming.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1752029980974858348) 2024-01-29T18:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@sarahbrunslaw He said he was worried about lawsuits as elections officials had to assess whether a person in fact had a non-physical disability if that makes you feel better. (But he's made a HARD RIGHT turn from his previous time in the Senate for sure.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1752040441581584543) 2024-01-29T18:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Pretty cool to see @BLM757 advocating in House Public Safety on behalf of these (@bonitaganthony & @AcCordoza) bills to create a CODI alert for those kids who are missing but don't qualify for AMBER Alert. Named for Codi Bigsby who has never been found. Committee reports bill"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1753045188249797033) 2024-02-01T13:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Leave it to @JoshuaCole to bring Proverbs [----] ("A man who isolates himself seeks his own desires; he rages against all wise judgment.") to the House Public Safety subcommittee to PREACH why solitary confinement is wrong. Even if they're now calling it restorative housing.🥰"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1753053192395379197) 2024-02-01T13:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senate technology/cameras really struggling today"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1753066056346910892) 2024-02-01T14:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Parkland shooting survivor @davidhogg111 testifies in House Firearms subcommittee against a bill that would allow teachers to carry firearms at schools asks: If 300+ law enforcement officers refused to confront a man with a gun at Uvalde what more would arming teachers do"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1753173051716321342) 2024-02-01T21:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Virginia House of Delegates votes to raise the minimum wage to $13.50 in [----] and $15/hr in [----]. Every single GOP member voted against it despite the fact that 68% of Virginians said in recent @WasonCenter polling they support it"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1753471999282733104) 2024-02-02T17:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yay here it is @DelRodWillett gives point of personal privilege to pay tribute to Richmond-native @lucydacus for winning #GRAMMYs last night (through Boy Genius) and Annandale music teacher Annie Ray who won a Music Educator Award at last night's award show. .cc @kelsey_wright8"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1754557640263319816) 2024-02-05T17:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
".@JenniferBoysko bill that started out making sure ppl w/ developmental disorders/autism wouldn't be arrested & kicked into criminal justice system for assaulting a law enforcement officer (w/ no harm) & now just provides an affirmative defense to those charges passes Senate"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1754577598737199516) 2024-02-05T18:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate passes @CreighDeeds ban on assault weapons on a party-line vote"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1755292276664791242) 2024-02-07T18:07Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
".@SenLouiseLucas opens Finance mtg saying she is NOT docketing the "half-baked Glenn dome" bc it places too much risk on the VA. "The more we use the reputation of the Commonwealth to finance billionaires' projects the more we risk not being able to finance our own projects.""
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1757030463967830489) 2024-02-12T13:14Z [----] followers, 14.1K engagements
".@ssurovell Climate Innovation Authority (a "green bank" i.e. to tap into available federal funds to encourage entrepreneurial investments in clean energy projects) reports from Finance. "For every $3 million we invest the federal government will lend us another $97 million.""
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1757049280752128188) 2024-02-12T14:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senate passes @GhazalaHashmi bill affirming the right to contraception which she points out seems necessary in light of Justice Thomas saying we should "reconsider contraception.""
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1757101883804529020) 2024-02-12T17:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Update: LG Sears votes nay killing the bill. .@RussetPerry voting with GOP on this @lashrecseaird bill changing the penalties for failure to appear in court when required is causing a tie vote that the LG is now conferring to decide how to break the tie. https://t.co/Q6NWfcOwBs .@RussetPerry voting with GOP on this @lashrecseaird bill changing the penalties for failure to appear in court when required is causing a tie vote that the LG is now conferring to decide how to break the tie. https://t.co/Q6NWfcOwBs"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1757443661237776808) 2024-02-13T16:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senate currently spending a half hour on potentially the longest day of session debating a bill that every single person knows will be passed on a party-line vote. (Minimum wage increase.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1757446979167088964) 2024-02-13T16:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Some folks speaking on the floor today per closed captions: Delegate O Machine Doug Russo Delegator Delegate Gian Delegate Mill Day Dug a Marat Delegate Laver Bowling Delegate Bet They were often seeking to re-enact the sex code or the Sex Dakota. This tech has aways to go.😕"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1760875225791479830) 2024-02-23T03:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@BreRVA It's almost incomprehensible. And I know it doesn't have to be this bad--whatever system Microsoft Teams uses always seems to produce nearly perfect transcription"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1760876113843142689) 2024-02-23T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""'no explanation or citation of any legal exemption was given'" for denying "numerous requests by NBC4 Washington for documents and records related to the proposed deal to bring the Washington Wizards and Capitals to Virginia." VA FOIA is such a joke"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1761002177902862826) 2024-02-23T12:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Looks like the General Assembly is getting close to passing a bill that would allow all localities to levy a local tax (by referendum) to raise money for school construction currently only allowed to select localities. There are crumbling schools over a hundred years old in VA"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1762173516307103805) 2024-02-26T17:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senator Obenshain says on Senate floor that we're already paying teachers lots and we're "doing really well on teacher compensation.""
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1762543463428509840) 2024-02-27T18:21Z [----] followers, 10.9K engagements
"In Senate Courts it's unanimous (sort of) to report out @Keys_Gamarra bill to end child marriage. Four GOP Senators either aren't sure whether they agree or have a conflict of interest (😉 )"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1762950683479740616) 2024-02-28T21:19Z [----] followers, 10.2K engagements
"Tearful @LauraJaneCohen re: GOP peer reading aloud yesterday Jewish slur from article. "These words are not new. The images are not new. I thought coming here would be different & I would leave that behind. Today I'm standing up in this body to say we will not be used as pawns.""
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1765059419421692221) 2024-03-05T16:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@LauraJaneCohen As @LauraJaneCohen points out it's incredibly disingenuous for the same people giving floor speeches about Israel and antisemitism to have spent the weekend standing with and applauding Donald Trump who called actual modern-day Nazis "very fine people.""
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1765060346891686117) 2024-03-05T17:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Del Gilbert just threw the Virginia Way (as the legislature uses the term) in the toilet flipping out at @MarkSicklesVA taking a floor speech to joke lightly about the ongoing debate over cost of JIF pb. (Rs blaming Biden and Dem policies when it's obviously corporate profits.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1765767884813316197) 2024-03-07T15:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nice Sen. vote to accept conference report on @ssurovell green infrastructure fund to tap into $350b pool of federal money to leverage $330 million in loans for climate resiliency projects; ie. schools putting solar panels up at 1/2 price bc they're leaning on feds credit rating"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1766566396861751670) 2024-03-09T20:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The #2 most progressive in the House on our scorecard is @NadariusClarkVA whose innovative bills on mental health professional loan repayment programs implicit bias training for medical professionals & anti-rent gouging caught our attention early & his great voting matched"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1770482937110155490) 2024-03-20T16:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Pretty much the entire criminal justice platform vetoed despite many of these bills having bipartisan support. What is the point of working across the aisle and making compromises if a partisan hack like this will just veto it anyway Gov. Youngkin vetoed [--] more bills https://t.co/KWxtUuyeYB Gov. Youngkin vetoed [--] more bills https://t.co/KWxtUuyeYB"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1770609126004933057) 2024-03-21T00:31Z [----] followers, 10.2K engagements
"🤔 I get that this gets around the oft-mentioned problem of financing the arena on the credit-rating of VA.but if FFX was up in arms over the casino idea already I don't see how they're going to vote 👍 on an Arenasino () Also I thought they were locked into DC until [----] LOL wuuuuuut https://t.co/dpynKZAKXx https://t.co/hL40gxMXSf LOL wuuuuuut https://t.co/dpynKZAKXx https://t.co/hL40gxMXSf"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1771919346987663555) 2024-03-24T15:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"aka Virginia taxpayers just paid for Youngkin to take a tax deduction for donating to an anti-LGBTQ+ organization. @GlennYoungkin Small correction: it was to two clinics getting $21875 so about $42K. Notably one of the clinics Straight Street "a Christian outreach ministry that supports at-risk teens" is not among the free clinics who would lose out in the free clinic funding in my story. @GlennYoungkin Small correction: it was to two clinics getting $21875 so about $42K. Notably one of the clinics Straight Street "a Christian outreach ministry that supports at-risk teens" is not among the"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1772713588223787337) 2024-03-26T19:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"611000 workers stood to get a wage increase--not even catching up with inflation since the [----] bill. 56% of all Virginia voters agreed they should. 400+ religious leaders agreed & asked Youngkin to sign it. But Youngkin vetoed bc he cares only for his rich business friends"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1773669141188087911) 2024-03-29T11:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Repeated refrain re: poor relationship b/w Youngkin & his own party. Note they ALSO aren't carrying water for him on the budget. "Youngkin never enjoyed vocal support from Republican legislators who mostly kept their heads down as the deal imploded." https://fortune.com/2024/04/02/washington-wizards-capitals-virginia-deal-fallout/ https://fortune.com/2024/04/02/washington-wizards-capitals-virginia-deal-fallout/"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1775308575138582702) 2024-04-02T23:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I would argue that the emperor has no clothes (or as the caption reads acumen). He has zero signature accomplishments. The Glenn-dome was his last chance to HAVE a legacy. And he screwed that up too with his inability to negotiate or see that he needed to"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1775861339535093850) 2024-04-04T12:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Congrats to @DelegateCallsen and @BarbaraFavola on the signing of their kinship foster care Parental Child Safety Placement Program bills to promote placing kids with relatives and keeping them out of the foster care system when possible"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1777525695054278854) 2024-04-09T02:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's funny--when you strip out the💰Virginia could be collecting from marijuana retail sales--if Youngkin hadn't vetoed it--and the💰Virginia could be collecting from RGGI participation--if Youngkin hadn't pulled us out--you're left scrambling to make cuts to balance the budget"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1777532869625176388) 2024-04-09T03:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@sicsemperty2 And they would have under this bill. It required approval through a voter referendum for any locality to raise their own local sales tax temporarily to fund school construction projects"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1777534823587889283) 2024-04-09T03:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Looks to me like Northam and the Democratic trifecta *finally* increasing the minimum wage and giving workers better benefits is paying off in a strong labor supply Good work Dems Too bad that progress now grinds to a halt by Youngkin vetoing further minimum wage and benefits. This is so dishonest. In fact Youngkin's had almost no legislative accomplishments in his 2+ years in office so the extent VA's economy is strong that's due to: a) the hot US economy overall (thanks Biden); b) the strong situation Youngkin INHERITED. https://t.co/DcGVpo1ANj https://t.co/ZwPd5If60b This is so dishonest."
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1778385381144035428) 2024-04-11T11:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"GOP Delegates Arnold Austin Ballard Bloxom Campbell Davis Kilgore Knight Marshall Morefield Owen Phillips Tata Taylor Wachsmann Ware and Wright voted yea on the floor. If they represent you call/email and ask them to stand by their vote & vote to override Crumbling schools is not a partisan issue. Wednesday we return to Richmond and it is in all Virginians' interest that we override the Governor's veto of bipartisan bill HB805 and allow localities to begin repairing their schools. https://t.co/91E7Wd58GB Crumbling schools is not a partisan issue. Wednesday we return to Richmond and it is in"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1779890412334837811) 2024-04-15T15:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"No dice on the governor's recommendations on @AaronRouseVaBch Virginia skill games bill. A resounding bipartisan vote"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1780641966906105992) 2024-04-17T16:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yikes. Someone did NOT learn how to make friends Governors recommendations getting a frosty reception from both sides of the aisle https://t.co/7i6TI3SgNN Governors recommendations getting a frosty reception from both sides of the aisle https://t.co/7i6TI3SgNN"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1780672394849300613) 2024-04-17T18:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""If they rose by [--] feet many of these areas would be heavily submerged including parts of the state's three most populous cities Virginia Beach Chesapeake and Norfolk." https://www.newsweek.com/virginia-map-shows-where-state-could-underwater-sea-level-rise-1896429 https://www.newsweek.com/virginia-map-shows-where-state-could-underwater-sea-level-rise-1896429"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1788199890973016422) 2024-05-08T13:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Special session schedule today: 10:00 - Joint 💰 committee meeting to receive the new budget 12:00 - House and Senate gavel in vote on budget Should pass by larger margins without Youngkin's digital tax and without RGGI provision (not sure what Dems got in exchange for it)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1789986695351349736) 2024-05-13T11:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If Youngkin doesn't appoint a Diversity EQUITY & Inclusion director by July the💰reverts to the cannabis fund. .@ssurovell: "Sometimes following a law you dont agree with is uncomfortable but when you raise your right hand and swear to God." https://virginiamercury.com/2024/05/15/will-youngkin-appoint-a-dei-director-as-the-state-budget-directs/ https://virginiamercury.com/2024/05/15/will-youngkin-appoint-a-dei-director-as-the-state-budget-directs/"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1790702620819996958) 2024-05-15T11:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"No idea wtf this is even about but @FiveGuys a local small business American success story certainly does not deserve this kind of crap. I hope they know that this hyperpartisan creep does not represent Virginia burger 🍔 and fries 🍟 lovers Remember kids only you can prevent Marxism https://t.co/4KX0nH8MFf Remember kids only you can prevent Marxism https://t.co/4KX0nH8MFf"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1795817571687825817) 2024-05-29T14:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Charming that after voting against *every criminal justice reform policy* addressing how badly the criminal legal system is stacked against the accused this delegate suddenly thinks the system is rigged now that his rich white powerful former President is the one on trial. As a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney for the past [--] years I have never been so struck by this level of fundamental unfairness in a criminal proceeding. This was a rigged show trial replete with legal errors obvious biases and political agendas. As a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney for the past [--] years I"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1796297327134511210) 2024-05-30T21:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@drmkchr @BreRVA @DominionEnergy I think maybe only during extreme weather periods"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1796515714821718405) 2024-05-31T12:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
".and that's why HE SIGNED the language making the cuts right Look be honest people it was a bipartisan bicameral agreement to cut money to this program because it was getting expensive and we have a government that won't tax enough to pay for its programs. New statement from @GlennYoungkin on @VASenateDems's failure to pass a #VMSDEP fix: "These men and women deserve so much better." #VAleg https://t.co/84gXK5PKrP New statement from @GlennYoungkin on @VASenateDems's failure to pass a #VMSDEP fix: "These men and women deserve so much better." #VAleg https://t.co/84gXK5PKrP"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1803402858601021726) 2024-06-19T12:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I wonder what Youngkin has to say about this man calling @SenLouiseLucas a b----. Does he condone using derogatory misogynistic slurs towards our legislators According to his Facebook page Tom Coffin briefly met with Youngkin this morning along with other members advocating for WMSDEP. https://t.co/NFYUJkQQwn According to his Facebook page Tom Coffin briefly met with Youngkin this morning along with other members advocating for WMSDEP. https://t.co/NFYUJkQQwn"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1806864242458431605) 2024-06-29T01:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
".@MarkSicklesVA in Joint HHR Oversight Subcommittee speaks of historic investment the General Assembly just made in developmental health care: "Not nearly what we need but we've never spent more.""
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1810687486961631420) 2024-07-09T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hello police I'd like to report a murder. 😂😂 Unlike you I dont get paid to tweet all day. Glad you find value in your followers b/c you have no influence in your caucus. [--] years later no leadership role a backbencher and an instagram influencerbut congratspeople see you. I hope Speaker Scott sees you too Unlike you I dont get paid to tweet all day. Glad you find value in your followers b/c you have no influence in your caucus. [--] years later no leadership role a backbencher and an instagram influencerbut congratspeople see you. I hope Speaker Scott sees you too"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1811067734970491090) 2024-07-10T15:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@LoudounJames1 I know conspiracy theories and fake news are fun for some people but it takes just ten seconds to find this information on the Virginia Department of Elections website. A social security number is required to register to vote. https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/how-to-register/ https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/how-to-register/"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1821381840680132682) 2024-08-08T03:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"🤬 Happy National Blame a Union (if you're a Republican) Day Count on today's GOP to be wholly out of touch with the American people. And it was the teachers UNION that pushed to keep our schools closed creating learning loss. Individual teachers across the commonwealth are certainly heroes because of their influence and they have received raises every year for the past [--] to [--] years to show it. And it was the teachers UNION that pushed to keep our schools closed creating learning loss. Individual teachers across the commonwealth are certainly heroes because of their influence and they have"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1830633406088323384) 2024-09-02T15:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin keeps playing lapdog to Donald Trump.Shame on him for placating an insurrectionist a convicted felon and someone whose incompetent response to the COVID-19 pandemic killed hundreds of thousands of Americans." https://virginiamercury.com/2024/09/03/in-sop-to-ex-president-youngkin-panders-about-nonexistent-voting-by-noncitizens/emci=c2684e4a-8269-ef11-991a-6045bdd9e096&emdi=2efdddb6-e369-ef11-991a-6045bdd9e096&ceid=344025"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1830927704427737197) 2024-09-03T11:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Elex Commish in House Privileges & Elections mtg says her greatest concern for this election is the performance of the US Postal Service. Good thing Dems passed a law for [--] days of no excuse in person early voting (and haven't let Republicans shorten it since) & drop boxes"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1831401606170247270) 2024-09-04T18:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I always love when the GOP Administration's rep comes to the Finance Committee & tells legislature how great the economy is doing GDP growing "inflation under control" consumer demand high etc. Because their "boss" Governor Youngkin loves to say the opposite on Faux News"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1836041507217744030) 2024-09-17T13:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In Senate Finance @ssurovell asks Chief "Transformation" Officer--who boasted about improvements to VADOC re-entry program--if Gov Youngkin is reconsidering his position on the restoration of voting rights which has been shown to improve outcomes for re-entering persons. 💥"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1836059360297947490) 2024-09-17T15:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A number of speakers from Virginia colleges give testimony at Senate Education and Health Committee telling about their treatment at the hands of campus law enforcement. GOP senators continue to interrupt questioning and arguing with the language choices of witnesses etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1836133760728801636) 2024-09-17T20:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Listening to the CASC (Commonwealth's Atty Services Council) meeting where they're discussing whether to allow former prosecutor Phil Evans (who was scolded by the 4th Circuit for serious Brady violations in VA's last death penalty case) to teach CLE classes to other lawyers"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1838979564694888544) 2024-09-25T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
".@fatehinorfolk who took over as CA the office where Phil Evans was working when he violated Brady rules in VA's last death penalty case registered a complaint about assigning Phil Evans to teach CASC CLE Murder One and Two classes to other lawyers"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1838979566540615705) 2024-09-25T16:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SteveDescano Gotta check the VA budget but how do we feel about our tax dollars being spent on a Council that seems to have full autonomy to hire people who "fundamentally misunderstand" the relevant law to teach that law"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1838984334033699061) 2024-09-25T16:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SteveDescano Oh sounds like the CASC Chair was involved with the death penalty case in question that Evans violated Brady. That might explain why she's so inclined to keep him on as teacher"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1838992046054326615) 2024-09-25T17:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Let's be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election a federal judge ruled that Glenn Youngkin VIOLATED THE LAW. (It isn't the first time either.) Lets be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over [----] individualswho self-identified themselves as noncitizensback onto the voter rolls. https://t.co/QwloK1Sxr4 Lets be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over [----] individualswho"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1849907331938591022) 2024-10-25T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Here we are again a couple months before the next legislative session and again I ask: Where do you want to find my content Is it time to leave X and where can I reach y'all if so (I'm still here because y'all are still here. 🔁)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1854883596718264589) 2024-11-08T13:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Testimony in House P&E: "women ALREADY have the right to murder" 🤔"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1856767972146061464) 2024-11-13T18:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Oh yay Gov Youngkin starts his budget remarks with some drivel about Christmas and Advent. Always love to hear about Christian traditions in our government meetings. /snark"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1869391365618196904) 2024-12-18T14:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Youngkin renews his call to eliminate the car tax something he demanded last budget cycle but then didn't negotiate to fund. Now he suggests an incremental car tax credit based on income funded by this year's surplus"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1869393710955552841) 2024-12-18T14:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Youngkin mentions ALL the federal govt agencies/depts he's contacted seeking Hurricane relief funds to repair SWVA communities says his budget creates a new relief fund. But ofc when he illegally took VA out of RGGI he literally threw away funds specifically for that relief"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1869399611443667253) 2024-12-18T15:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@Debra4Delegate HB1759 would require the Dept of Workforce Development to provide job search assistance to returning citizens following release from prison. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1759 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1759"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1876390947581542868) 2025-01-06T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"HB1796 (@HelmerVA) would make Virginia the 5th state to recognize DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations--typically used for cryptocurrency transactions) as legal entities joining VT WY TN and UT. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1796 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1796"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1876475155683426739) 2025-01-07T03:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@indiependent1 Can you explain This isn't really one of my areas of expertise"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1876479877773398246) 2025-01-07T04:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Completely disagree with this @RussetPerry bill that would keep local prosecutors from making Brady lists (of cops who lied or withheld critical evidence in cases/trials) or local law enforcement from firing cops for lying/withholding evidence. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1274/text/SB1274 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1274/text/SB1274"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1878164090805186889) 2025-01-11T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Never in my life thought I would hear a woman testifying against child support 😯 (This is a @ssurovell bill to raise the mandated rates in Virginia to keep up with inflation an increase of somewhere from $30-100 depending on income.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1878810578111910354) 2025-01-13T14:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Quick fact check on Youngkin saying people are moving to Virginia finally. Yes slightly but like in other states it's due to immigrants who he and his party are constantly villainizing"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1878822375170650333) 2025-01-13T15:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Youngkin says in SOTC we have an "existential crisis" in our schools. I thought maybe he was talking about school shootings & kids living in fear of being killed at school or watching their friends die. But he was talking about kids using cell phones and being on social media"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1878825752222966147) 2025-01-13T15:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"👀 Check out this @Lopez4VA bill to tax firearms and ammo purchases. Revenues directed towards gun violence prevention and school safety. Heck yes https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2558 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2558"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1878947418458427858) 2025-01-13T23:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Re: the "existential crisis" at our schools (surprisingly not kids being killed by assault weapons) here's a bill prohibiting TikTok from giving kids access and allowing parents to sue if they do. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2568 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2568"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1878951013060882637) 2025-01-13T23:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@RipSullivan6 puts some clean energy restrictions on data centers to qualify for the (already-existing) tax credit. If they're getting a tax break they shouldn't be allowed to irresponsibly worsen our ability to meet clean energy goals. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2578 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2578"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1878952819799310451) 2025-01-13T23:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"House passes abortion constitutional amendment resolution so that "people who probably couldn't find a uterus with a map are not making decisions about women's healthcare" (@CandiMundonKing)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1879232778623238224) 2025-01-14T18:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Virginia House passes marriage equality constitutional amendment. This will need to pass again next session and then the voters of Virginia can decide in November [----] whether to remove the odious Marshall-Newman Amendment"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1879257259567616221) 2025-01-14T20:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate Privileges and Elections reports @JenniferBoysko's reproductive healthcare constitutional amendment resolution out on a party-line vote"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1879281445891657785) 2025-01-14T21:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate announces new committee assignments. I didn't catch them all (@Kannanforva to P&E and I think Transportation) but noted that @BarbaraFavola has been added as the newest member of Senate Judiciary"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1879588094720258093) 2025-01-15T17:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Tomorrow morning bright and early: 7:30 House CC&T Sub 2: @VA_JET data center site assessment bill 8:00 House Pub Safety Sub: @HollySeiboldVA prison temperature monitoring bill 8:30 Senate Ed & Health: @BarbaraFavola prohibition on extradition for abortion care"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1879740037442805775) 2025-01-16T03:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@SenBagby explains to Senate Courts re: his SB1255 that while law enforcement in most jurisdictions do not shackle youths in their courtrooms there are some that will shackle every single child regardless of any danger flight risk etc. This is a @JusticeFwdVa bill"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1881331828440895869) 2025-01-20T13:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Sheriffs claim that they're the trained "experts" on whether a kid needs to be shackled and shifts that to the judge. (Prince William Sheriff puts leg chains on every kid @ssurovell says and asked if they were "trained" to do that.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1881331829682438297) 2025-01-20T13:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate passes @JenniferBoysko constitutional amendment resolution that would enshrine the provisions of Roe v Wade in Virginia's constitution. It must pass again in the [----] legislative session and the voters will have it on their [----] general election ballot"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1881795365567160777) 2025-01-21T20:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Once everyone realized that a motion to incorporate did not necessarily add any of its language into the bill Craig withdrew her motion and instead moved to vote on a yet-unwritten substitute that would include her language"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1882451450862895419) 2025-01-23T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The tl:dr here is that this was a move to sneak into a popular Gaming Commission bill some skill games regulation that (unfortunately imo) doesn't have the support to pass on its own. And it was largely blocked by Ebbin and McPike who were quicker on parliamentary moves"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1882451452767150364) 2025-01-23T15:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@ssurovell asks @SenDaveMarsden whether he's concerned that his bill would result in more people sitting in custody waiting for bail assessment which most jurisdictions don't have personnel to cover. @RussetPerry says her first job was doing pretrial risk assessments"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1883882895212998693) 2025-01-27T14:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@RussetPerry is also disturbed that the proposed pre-trial risk assessment tool somehow doesn't involve interviewing the actual person whose risk they're assessing"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1883883900788953211) 2025-01-27T14:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@JCarrollFoy agrees w/ part of @SenDaveMarsden bill that every bail hearing should have a pretrial risk assessment tool but feels that language in this bill implies a presumption against bail which the legislature has eliminated in previous years. The bill is killed in Courts"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1883885068130848918) 2025-01-27T14:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sometimes you pop into a House subcommittee and hear a GOP member (in this case former Speaker Del Gilbert) say something utterly disturbing: "when the evidence didn't bear out on global warming language the narrative changed to climate change." WHAT"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1885080678770839606) 2025-01-30T21:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senate passes @ssurovell public sector collective bargaining bill. This will 100% be vetoed by the Gov if it makes it through the House and to his desk; however it's still a big deal for it to pass the Senate for the first () time"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1886809069169623543) 2025-02-04T16:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Bill from @RipSullivan6 to encourage utilities to develop energy storage passes House with teeny bit of bipartisan support"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1886841367663665242) 2025-02-04T18:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"92-5 vote in House to pass @AdeleMcClure_ bill issuing special @Commanders license plates #HTTC"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1886845491624763678) 2025-02-04T18:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The last bill before crossover: @AaronRouseVA bill to protect federal government workers from eviction during a partial government shutdown or furlough passes the Senate with wide support"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1886885364872389051) 2025-02-04T21:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is a BIPARTISAN bill that's been patroned by legislators from BOTH parties for several yrs ALLOWING localities to use local sales taxes to pay for school construction--which a handful already are allowed. I guess the kids can just stay in their leaky moldy schools w/o AC. This Governor is out of touch. https://t.co/itKYtWR8Rd This Governor is out of touch. https://t.co/itKYtWR8Rd"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1904351992983486823) 2025-03-25T01:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Nick Freitas says raising the minimum wage will result in lots of people losing their jobs (Only problem is that we've ALREADY raised the minimum wage for the last four years and Virginia's unemployment rate is far lower than the national average)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1907507817457520779) 2025-04-02T18:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Excited to be (volunteering) at the @opengovva annual conference with great speakers on the opacity of animal testing research AI and open data data centers and solar projects transparency and lots more. All in the beautiful Court Square Theater in Harrisonburg"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1907819706620187093) 2025-04-03T15:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"WILD graph in ODU presentation to Senate Subcommittee on Federal Resource Cuts shows consumer expectations about how Trump's tariffs will affect inflation. (People in both parties are saying economic conditions are starting to deteriorate.) Stagflation is starting to look likely"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1924829829804839362) 2025-05-20T14:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Dem LG Debate 1/2 Q: How'll you help workers hurt by Trump policies Bastani: min wage student debt relief repeal RTW Salgado: access to capital business credit bus. tax relief Lateef: unemployment Medicaid job training Hashmi: job training health benefits state agencies"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1925690809476673779) 2025-05-22T23:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BreRVA @roryf_RVA Yes they're just not currently alllowed on state right-of-ways (where they're under state police control) currently. Local law enforcement are allowed to use them on roads in their jurisdiction"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1939757333044760709) 2025-06-30T18:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Did they chat about this The VA GOP's [----] LG nominee is a strong believer that "Guns Save Lives." If you agree with that then by all means vote for him. If not then definitely vote for Democrat Ghazala Hashmi https://t.co/4feUzaDB5H https://t.co/65JCIABbaZ The VA GOP's [----] LG nominee is a strong believer that "Guns Save Lives." If you agree with that then by all means vote for him. If not then definitely vote for Democrat Ghazala Hashmi https://t.co/4feUzaDB5H https://t.co/65JCIABbaZ"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1944737708879810784) 2025-07-14T12:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Spoiler: they aren't Who are they People who asked for asylum were granted a hearing & came to the hearing. ICE lawyers had the case dismissed & masked plainclothes agents not identifying themselves as such abducted them on exit. Often while their wife & kids watch helpless"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1948370197359792477) 2025-07-24T13:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Hardly any restrictions" = someone (perhaps in a small remote town) whose doctor tells her she will DIE if she doesn't have this 3rd trimester abortion ASAP needs to go searching for two MORE doctors to agree with that opinion before she can have life-saving medical care. M'kay. NEW: John Reid implies current abortion laws in VA should be stricter & expressed support for legislation to further restrict reproductive rights. "There's hardly any restrictions at all as it currently exists so I guess it would depend on what the legislation would look like." https://t.co/lM0E0INw8y NEW: John Reid"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1953875022335926654) 2025-08-08T17:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@LegislativeAI But it seems like most of this money is already committed to programs that come into being next year & are prepaid. Granted that means not having to pay for them next year and money is fungible but it's still not super forthright to call it a cushion when it's mostly committed"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1956017827749523962) 2025-08-14T15:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Del Simon asks in House Emergency Committee mtg: there are very specific triggers allowing us to access the rainy day fund and the "Big Beautiful Bill" was not one of those triggers correct Staff confirms this is correct the funds cannot be used for that"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1956033517592232105) 2025-08-14T16:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The rainy day fund is restricted by the constitution can only access when 2% decrease in revenue against adopted budget. Revenue reserve fund more accessible but shouldn't be used for ongoing commitments: "Prudent fiscal policy is very measured on how you use those resources.""
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1956033519005610300) 2025-08-14T16:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Watching House P&E where Chair @DelCiaPrice85 mentions shout-outs to VA at Nat'l Conference of State Legislators for improving access to voting.while breaking news headline pops up re: Trump wanting to use an executive order to "get rid of voting machines and mail-in ballots.""
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1957444580959277331) 2025-08-18T14:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Another member speaking specifically of mobile home parks suggests that sometimes when these communities go up for sale they will require a tremendous amount of infrastructure investment in repair/upkeep and a "mom and pop investor" won't have the equity to do that"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1957826246538043407) 2025-08-19T15:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"According to VDOT presentation to VA Crime Commission tens of thousands of people are injured or killed by speeding per year. 45% of fatal crashes are speed-related"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1957852242049909062) 2025-08-19T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"From today's presentation at House Emgcy Committee on Federal Cuts (Joint today w House Approps): 24% of VA's economic activity is reliant on the federal government as an employer a consumer and an investor. Federal government spending is inextricably linked to VA economy"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1966143693150367839) 2025-09-11T14:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Okay fam what substantive policy questions are you hoping will be asked tomorrow during the gubernatorial debate between Sears and Spanberger"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1976033584105607560) 2025-10-08T21:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sears on her attacks on trans folks: Im not taking a stand because it's the easy thing to do of course its not easy. Im being abused for it.it's almost like it's the civil rights movement all over again. But somebody has to say this is not right. https://www.wvtf.org/news/2025-10-15/virginias-candidates-for-governor-on-guns-trans-issues-and-campaign-enthusiasm https://www.wvtf.org/news/2025-10-15/virginias-candidates-for-governor-on-guns-trans-issues-and-campaign-enthusiasm"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1978535261995696581) 2025-10-15T18:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Oddly I don't see anything on Miyares' account denouncing the thousands of hateful homophobic antisemitic pro-slavery r@pe-friendly messages leaders of the Young Republican National Federation exchanged. And we aren't talking kids we're talking 18-40 year olds"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1978560310307856621) 2025-10-15T20:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I also liked Miyares' claim that he doesn't consider this a political office. When he constantly wastes our tax dollars getting his office involved in useless culture war litigation so he can get a spot on Fox News. Never mind that the cases get thrown out in court for no merit. One of the most laughably false things Miyares said tonight was that he supposedly just calls balls and strikes - and that hes sued both the Biden and Trump administrations. Uh huh. https://t.co/OgawvjX1Yq https://t.co/mQtCW6UK7G One of the most laughably false things Miyares said tonight was that he supposedly just"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1978988466001088712) 2025-10-17T00:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"🛗 ELEVATOR PITCH THURSDAY: In one tweet pitch an idea you have for a bill youd like to see Virginia pass next session Whats your #1 priority change to Virginia law"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1408042227427954698) 2021-06-24T12:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Chair Greta Harris says You have to believe that people sitting across the table from you are sincere. I am appealing to the Supreme Court of Virginia to lift up fairness in whatever you do to draw maps. I dont feel that all members are sincere. Regrettably I am done"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1446546009077788672) 2021-10-08T18:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Democrats seem to be willing to agree to a 5-4-2 split. [--] safe Dem districts [--] safe Repub ones and two (most likely [--] and 7) that are as close to 50-50 as possible"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1450835392295579651) 2021-10-20T14:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"To be clear here is how the 1.5% grocery tax is spent. Do I love the tax No its a pretty regressive tax. But I want to replace that money for public education from somewhere. Estate tax corporate tax wealth tax etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1489205305854640131) 2022-02-03T11:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ehartman1975 Honestly seeing the way the political winds might blow sometimes I think Northam should have spent it on some big ticket item for Virginia that couldnt be undone this year. (Im mostly kidding.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1489207490155851778) 2022-02-03T12:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@A_Siegel Im not sure it brings in enough revenue for that but its a great start for sure"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1489209258059218944) 2022-02-03T12:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Think about what presumption against bail means: If youre accused of something serious the burden falls to you to PROVE that you shouldnt have to sit in prison waiting for trial. Your liberty is taken from you based on an ACCUSATION. Innocent until proven guilty Not so much"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1537787973432918020) 2022-06-17T13:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@LynleeGThorne @RadRepubVA @royermattw Exactly. For example @VDEM receives in addition to state local and private donation funding funds from the federal EMPG (emergency mgmt grant pgm) HSGP (homeland security grant pgm) and NSGP (nonprofit grant pgm)"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1891125165951435197) 2025-02-16T13:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"On ALPR bill @ssurovell says on Senate floor that it is @C_Herring's intention not to let this bill go to conference and to accept the Senate amendments (the re-enactment clause on expansion and the shorter retention of data) when they come back to the House"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1892630978490773902) 2025-02-20T17:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"House announces that tomorrow will be a time warp. They will come in at 2:00pm and be in the [----] special session I; adjourn then recess for [--] minutes; and return to [----] regular session; votes on the budget expected around 4:00 pm"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1893057233195327580) 2025-02-21T21:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Sturtevant on Senate floor says he isn't voting for the budget allegedly because it doesn't include anything to help federal workers. Even though--as we heard at this AM House Emergency mtg--we do not yet have ANY parameters on how severe the crisis or what needs they'll have"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1893417861625893338) 2025-02-22T21:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Trump--er I mean Youngkin--ignores GOP-appointed House Clerk's finding that his line-item veto of Medicaid reimbursements to nursing homes was unconstitutional and he thus withholds urgently needed funds to care for Virginia's seniors. Sorry Grandma 👵🏻 https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_58598e9a-083b-4463-95a5-b72f4dfef6b7.html https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_58598e9a-083b-4463-95a5-b72f4dfef6b7.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1940387891383054739) 2025-07-02T12:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Correction: Earle-Sears was aggressive (and rude) because that's her manner and she did not make any attempt to keep control over herself. Straight out of the Trump debate playbook. My Virginia debate hot take Dont think was game changer either way Spanberger played it safe while Earle-Sears was aggressive bc behind Spanberger on defensive regarding Jones texts Earle-Sears comments about same-sex marriage will be used by Dems but not sure moves dials My Virginia debate hot take Dont think was game changer either way Spanberger played it safe while Earle-Sears was aggressive bc behind"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1976439050761535509) 2025-10-10T00:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yes Ms Sears that in fact IS exactly discrimination. .@winwithwinsome that is in fact discrimination. https://t.co/wACougzSKG .@winwithwinsome that is in fact discrimination. https://t.co/wACougzSKG"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1976439306429640723) 2025-10-10T00:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Do you know who is NOT joining the lawsuit to sue Trump to protect SNAP benefits Jason Miyares that's who. Do you know who is NOT trying to protect low-income Virginians from being unable to feed their families Jason Miyares. THIS is why we need to elect @jonesjay in a week"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1983222111054270530) 2025-10-28T17:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Not sure why the Alt text isn't sticking to this photo but it's a headline from CNBC that reads "States sue Trump administration to keep SNAP benefits during government shutdown""
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1983222557542088928) 2025-10-28T17:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ridiculous exchange in Senate as LG Sears claims the resolution needs a 2/3 vote to pass (it passed by simple majority) her ruling is overturned by the body of the Senate and she refuses to acknowledge that the resolution thereby passed but the record WILL reflect so"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1983581632545136871) 2025-10-29T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Virginia Senate has a Charlie Kirk memorial resolution on the floor this morning. I will not be reporting any further on it"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1984247841460818395) 2025-10-31T13:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@ssurovell on early voters: They voted before the shutdown before the East Wing of the White House was torn down before they knew whether the government would extend the health care subsidies lots of things people were unaware of but made up their mind to vote early anyway"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1984265245372854672) 2025-10-31T14:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"We keep hearing occasional peeps from VA GOP members during this redistricting discussion insinuating-sometimes downright stating-that Trump's coerced mid-decade redistricting in TX & elsewhere to rig Congress's majority is wrong. But none of them said a single word before this"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1984282589365154272) 2025-10-31T15:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@ssurovell before Virginia Senate passes redistricting amendment: What do you do when one side refuses to play by the rules Do you continue to play by the rules and concede defeat Or do you take actions even if unsavory to protect the principles of democratic government"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1984294135226937694) 2025-10-31T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"No words for how vile and disgusting this is. And dangerous frankly to rile up a MAGA mob about not wanting *those kind of people* in this state. Where have we seen this before 🤔 Video: At Rally in Purcellville Glenn Youngkin and John Reid Cut Loose with Repulsive Xenophobia Islamophobia etc.; Claim radical Islamistsare on the march; Declare I dont want @SenatorHashmi anywhere. I dont even want her in the state https://t.co/WXD3bdNMJf https://t.co/fxiHQDbktB Video: At Rally in Purcellville Glenn Youngkin and John Reid Cut Loose with Repulsive Xenophobia Islamophobia etc.; Claim radical"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1985001677477540094) 2025-11-02T15:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@GoadGatsby @Jaaavis I've always kinda identified her as West Virginia too. We'll miss her entertaining us though"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1987518374138741016) 2025-11-09T13:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I hope to be wrong here (Although the timing will definitely lead to news stories next year headlined "Test scores tumble under new Spanberger administration.") Unfortunately once Youngkin politicized curriculum and testing it became impossible to trust this administration. @vaplan2018 This is a wrong take - we have the lowest math & reading cut scores in the country. This increase is supported by the leading education civil rights group The Education Trust. It's most important to raise the bar for the least advantaged kids. https://t.co/wODSXlSK2h @vaplan2018 This is a wrong take - we have"
[X Link](https://x.com/vaplan2018/status/1989344638743035929) 2025-11-14T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
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Social Influence
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"Congratulations to @MarkKeam @BrewerForVa & @jonesjay on HB400 being signed into law creating the Fostering Futures Program supporting 18-21 year olds transitioning out of foster homes"
X Link 2020-03-24T15:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Congratulations to @joelindseyva90 and @CreighDeeds on HB100/SB325 being signed into law allowing attorneys to better assess whether potential jurors will be able to be impartial during the sentencing phase of a trial even knowing the potential sentence range"
X Link 2020-03-24T15:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"😂😭@marcussimon points out flip-flopping of House GOP: 🔄 Del OQuinn votes [--] times to ban personal use of campaign $ now kills it in committee 🔄 Speaker Gilbert in [----] asks to change House rules to discharge committee to take up constitutional amendments but opposes it today"
X Link 2022-02-10T19:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Preliminary winners of Arlington County Board after tabulating the ranked choice votes"
X Link 2023-06-23T21:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"👍 Every little bit helps @fatehinorfolk: While I cannot waive court costs or change the 17% interest that state law requires the Commonwealth to impose I can and have reduced that interest rate to the lowest possible number"
X Link 2023-08-10T11:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Whoa He supports climate activism At a time like this when we are suffering every day from the extreme weather effects of climate change imagine supporting ACTIVISM Probably supports preventing gun violence too Just remembered I need to make a donation to @ssurovell"
X Link 2023-08-29T16:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senator Janet Howell says in her goodbye speech on the floor that she and @SenLouiseLucas were only the 6th and 7th EVER women elected to the Virginia Senate. 😱"
X Link 2023-09-06T17:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Sen Barker takes a nasty parting shot in his goodbye speech rather than choosing grace: I have trepidationI fear that you will have senators who are not prepared for the job who do not represent the will of the voters but those money interests who funded their campaigns"
X Link 2023-09-06T17:49Z [----] followers, 26.2K engagements
"I see the GOP is moving forward with the war on women And a woman can be shamed and dragged through the mud by Republican peeping Toms for her own choices relating to her body Grab your red hooded capes my friends. The GOP will tell you what you may do with your body"
X Link 2023-09-11T20:32Z [----] followers, 11.8K engagements
"Was just thinking this today. Its almost entirely negative attacks on Demsundoubtedly because they know on policy they lose badly"
X Link 2023-09-21T23:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"So it would be a dream come true for Youngkin to serve as Vice President alongside Donald Trump. Kinda sad. For many of our past governors being Governor of this beautiful and prosperous Commonwealth was the dream job"
X Link 2023-09-26T18:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Pay attention to THIS people Check YOUR voter registration (even if youre sure youre registered) at"
X Link 2023-10-08T16:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Heres a thought: how about instead of leaving it to the whims of an administration to restore voting rights to who they feel like making mistake after mistake after mistake & then investigating the mistakes we make restoration of rights AUTOMATICput it in the Constitution"
X Link 2023-10-26T12:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Unusual to see a joint House/Senate statement of priorities like this. Typically the House Dems have their priorities and the Senate Dems have their own and theres some overlap but thats about it. (I guess why we have two chambers.) Maybe a sign leadership is more connected"
X Link 2023-11-20T21:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"That seemed to be a winning idea for them when they did the same exact thing last sessionoh wait"
X Link 2023-11-21T08:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If were going to keep playing this weird and dumb game where we judge peoples intentions by how swiftly they can respond to things on social media at the very least we should do the due diligence to check said social media"
X Link 2023-12-05T01:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Can confirm: she does not have dumbass written on her forehead. Whos excited to watch Youngkin deliver his budget proposal to the Senate and House money committees (which 👇 chairs) this morning 🥊"
X Link 2023-12-20T14:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@KenCraigArt Across the board increase in the state sales tax and a new digital goods and services tax (Spotify etc.). The wealthiest people typically spend a small proportion of their earnings so are affected less than the middle-class by sales tax increases and more by income taxes"
X Link 2023-12-21T18:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This Del Fowler bill would tie unemployment benefit duration to Virginias overall unemployment rate. Might be okay for those in the big jobs-producing cities in VA but makes hard times even harder for those in struggling areas of Virginia"
X Link 2023-12-28T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Tara Durant now in Senate again tries to repeal the (highly-successful) pretext-stop ban. So we can hear again about all the murder cases solved by finding dead bodies in trunks of cars driving w/ tinted windows. Good luck in Judiciary chaired by @ssurovell .cc @JusticeFwdVa"
X Link 2023-12-28T18:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The year is [----]. Virginia's population is at least 35% nonwhite. And the Republican House Caucus looks like this (photo on right): House of Delegates Seating Chart / Facebook https://t.co/H3AkIqfNPI House of Delegates Seating Chart / Facebook https://t.co/H3AkIqfNPI"
X Link 2024-01-03T21:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@BreRVA @BillStanley Okay perfect good to know what's the most useful. Knowing an abbreviated summary in the alt-text is better than the link helps a lot--some of the summaries get way too long And I'll try to explain succinctly enough to use the link in the tweet whenever I can"
X Link 2024-01-04T22:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Children of incarcerated people are "three times more likely than their peers to develop mental health problems. These same children are more likely to miss school get involved in antisocial behaviour violence and even crime." Society doesn't do enough to help these victims. The children of prisoners are forgotten victims. By me @CapX https://t.co/vLTJMr1uar The children of prisoners are forgotten victims. By me @CapX https://t.co/vLTJMr1uar"
X Link 2024-01-08T13:07Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"House Energy and Commerce committee returns to House Labor and Commerce. Again. (When GOP are in control the title reflects their priorities for business and corporations; when Dems are in control the title reflects the prioritization of workers.)"
X Link 2024-01-10T17:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Literally the only thing worthwhile about Youngkin's State of the Commonwealth is watching @SenLouiseLucas's face throughout. (He's saying absolutely nothing of any substance because that's exactly what he's accomplished in two years as Governor and all he'll do the next two.)"
X Link 2024-01-10T21:21Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements
"Youngkin talking a lot about his "tax reform" (ie raising the state sales tax to pay for an expensive income tax cut that benefits the wealthy disproportionately. But I don't see any of his GOP legislators carrying that incredibly unpopular bill yet. 🧐"
X Link 2024-01-10T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"LOVE this @PhilforVirginia bill creating a new millionaires tax bracket. Revenues specifically go towards basic aid funding for public education the Child Care Subsidy program and the Virginia Housing Trust Fund. #ShowMeYourValues"
X Link 2024-01-11T00:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sen. Peake asks Ed. Sec'y Gudera: How will we know whether Administration's "all-in" program (for recovering learning loss from COVID) Is working She says they aren't requiring any assessments but points out success of one student who was at State of Commonwealth yesterday.🙄"
X Link 2024-01-11T13:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate Public Education Committee subcommittee recommends reporting @AaronRouseVaBch school cardiac emergency response plan grant fund. (But will need to survive full committee and Finance committee.)"
X Link 2024-01-11T19:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@HollySeiboldVA lays it all out in House Public Safety in questions to new VADOC chief re: human rights violations in prisons--widespread black mold unsanitary conditions no AC inedible food. He responds they look into every complaint & doesn't ever just assume they're false"
X Link 2024-01-12T13:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Suzanne1160 You mean a public information campaign about the dangers of social media to children's brains and emotional wellbeing (I wholeheartedly agree if so.)"
X Link 2024-01-14T15:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Senators @JCarrollFoy and @lashrecseaird are both on the Courts AND General Laws committees. Courts meets Monday morning at 8am and can run for hours and hours usually ending around [--]. General Laws meets Monday morning at 10am. So.should they clone themselves"
X Link 2024-01-15T15:16Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate Commerce and Labor after lengthy and heated discussion reports @AaronRouseVaBch skill games machine bill not to General Laws (as it was requested and where many gaming bills go) but straight to Senate Finance"
X Link 2024-01-15T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Just noticed @KrizekForVA HB528 that would keep HOAs from disallowing managed conservation landscaping (ie environmentally sensitive supportive of wildlife and avoiding invasive species including rain gardens etc.) Nice bill 🦋💐🌸🌻🌿🍃"
X Link 2024-01-17T00:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Tomorrow afternoon big docket in Senate General Laws incl.: ✅ solar-ready roofs on new govt buildings (@BarbaraFavola) ❌ Mandatory employer use of E-verify (Sturtevant) ✅ Free first two hours of FOIA request work (@pwcdanica)"
X Link 2024-01-17T01:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@cheryldgb No not at all. I just think they're inflating their needs (which gives it one more aggravating way for the bill to ultimately die in finance/approps)"
X Link 2024-01-17T12:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ZachLincolnVA On your phone at least you can make a shortcut to it that uses the bird icon if that's helpful at all. (I still call Fedex Kinko's and it probably hasn't been Kinko's since before you were born lol.)"
X Link 2024-01-17T13:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Today we seem to have some rockabilly maybe on the Senate committee/floor stream 🎶"
X Link 2024-01-17T17:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"These felony homicide bills in Senate Courts are the equivalent of saying if you sell someone your gun and THEY then use it to kill someone YOU are guilty of murder. They don't even want civil liability for that let alone criminal"
X Link 2024-01-17T19:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@marcussimon bill to end common law crime of suicide hits small bump in the road as Commonwealth's Attorneys want to protect ability to get search warrants to investigate (to rule out murder)--to get a search warrant need to suspect a crime. Taken by for the day to address"
X Link 2024-01-17T20:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Tomorrow morning in House HHS health professions sub: ✅ great bill by @NadariusClarkVA to create loan repayment program for mental health professionals Orrock bill req. those seeking hysterectomy receive info from anti hysterectomy org & anatomical pictures two weeks before"
X Link 2024-01-17T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@melissa_seyba @NadariusClarkVA It's my understanding--from the rabbit hole I went down after seeing this bill--that there is some incidence of quack doctors pushing this procedure on people who perhaps don't understand what they're getting into. Not sure if that's just tin foil hat theories or a real issue"
X Link 2024-01-18T02:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Congratulations to @SalimVASenate on getting his first bill--and a difficult bill--passed in the Senate today to change misdemeanor sentences to [---] days from a year to avoid potential deportation consequences"
X Link 2024-01-18T18:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Virginia Catholic Conference and @vainterfaith out here in House Public Safety Firearms subcommittee testifying in support of @HelmerVA assault weapon ban. Because they believe it will save lives"
X Link 2024-01-18T23:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Del Cordoza suggests an assault weapon ban only saving 5% of gun deaths shouldn't be passed bc it doesn't specifically address gun deaths in Black communities to which @marcussimon points out that Dems have worked hard on community-based interventions that the GOP unfunded"
X Link 2024-01-18T23:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Before I shut down for the night I want to give a shoutout to @NadariusClarkVA for doing an awesome job at his first time chairing a subcom Public Safety Firearms is one of the hardest subcom jobs and you rocked it--perfect combination of fair respectful and efficient 👏👏"
X Link 2024-01-19T03:22Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"House Crim Sub kills attempt to roll back criminal justice reform that removed the presumption against bail. The presumption should be that a person is innocent (and thereby should not be held in jail awaiting trial) and the burden should be on the Commonwealth to prove otherwise"
X Link 2024-01-19T18:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"New bill from @Keys_Gamarra would require apartment building owners to move back the date when cooling services begin to April [--] (formerly May 15). Good news for everyone who's sweated it out miserably for that month. #climatechange"
X Link 2024-01-20T13:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In argument against waiting period bill Sen Obenshain says he thinks they addressed the mental health/suicide issues in a bipartisan way with the Voluntary Do Not Sell bill and that is the way to go not a waiting period. He of course voted against that good @ssurovell bill"
X Link 2024-01-22T16:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Interesting vote split on @DRSuetterlein "sore loser" bill that would prevent those running in one party's primary from quitting the primary (after the voting has begun and their name is on the ballot) and running as an independent or as the nominee for the other party"
X Link 2024-01-22T17:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's fascinating to hear the people argue over and over when it comes to guns that laws don't work and there's no point of making gun laws to keep people safe. Who knew there were so many anarchists in Virginia"
X Link 2024-01-25T21:51Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@CandiMundonKing @AdeleMcClure_ In an unexpected twist nobody makes a motion to report Freitas and Griffin bills to allow permitless concealed carry. None of the ten GOP delegates on the committee. The bills die for lack of motion"
X Link 2024-01-26T13:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Every year legislators search for some utterly convoluted campaign expenditure scenario that they're worried about being prohibited under @marcussimon ban on personal use. You wouldn't guess that [--] states and the federal government have managed to tackle this tricky problem.🙄"
X Link 2024-01-26T14:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Per the patron Amazon requested that news sports entertainment and e-commerce be explicitly excluded from the definition of social media platform in HB1161 to restrict (parental consent) minors' access to social media. Naturally 🙄🙄 Wouldn't want kids to stop SPENDING MONEY"
X Link 2024-01-29T13:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Throwing "entertainment" in that list seems extremely vague (is TikTok not "entertainment"). Northern Virginia Technology Alliance says the definition is overly broad and that the amendments sound like they'd make it more confusing"
X Link 2024-01-29T13:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Del Griffin says after listening to the testimony (by a youth pointing out that for an LGBTQ+ youth in an unsupportive household social media provides a healthy place of acceptance) he's more inclined to support the bill. Of course"
X Link 2024-01-29T13:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"HB1161 requiring parental consent (vaguely defined and confirmed) to access social media (also vaguely defined in the bill and possibly in a confounding way) is laid on the table in House subcommittee. GOP all vote not to kill despite having spoken about the bill's flaws"
X Link 2024-01-29T13:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Del @MichelleforVA10 knows Del Hodges' bill better than he does as he doesn't seem to know his bill on "addictive" social media tactics includes "gamification" which she is concerned would reach into educational tools that use gamification"
X Link 2024-01-29T13:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@JCarrollFoy says in response that people shouldnt have to get convictions to get services and she finds it abhorrent that our jails are the largest providers of mental health care. Ditto what she said. Sen Stuart over and over suggests how important it is for autistic people to get arrested and charged and caught up in the criminal justice system so that they can get the help they need (and then have the charges dismissed). What a screwed up world we live in. Sen Stuart over and over suggests how important it is for autistic people to get arrested and charged and caught up in the criminal"
X Link 2024-01-29T15:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Sen Obenshain says @JCarrollFoy bill to create standards of responsible conduct for gun industry manufacturing sales advertising etc & make civil causes of action would put every gun company out of business. The sky is falling. But didn't fall when CA DE & NY passed this law"
X Link 2024-01-29T16:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"McDougle makes another specious argument about why don't we have this kind of liability and accountability for fentanyl makers but we do for gun makers @ssurovell points out that we LITERALLY DO allow ppl to sue drug makers for irresponsible conduct"
X Link 2024-01-29T16:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"There's always gotta be that ONE guy right This is the vote on whether to extend curbside voting for people with disabilities to people with non-physical disabilities upon request. (Because for some ppl w developmental disabilities the polling place can be overwhelming.)"
X Link 2024-01-29T18:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@sarahbrunslaw He said he was worried about lawsuits as elections officials had to assess whether a person in fact had a non-physical disability if that makes you feel better. (But he's made a HARD RIGHT turn from his previous time in the Senate for sure.)"
X Link 2024-01-29T18:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Pretty cool to see @BLM757 advocating in House Public Safety on behalf of these (@bonitaganthony & @AcCordoza) bills to create a CODI alert for those kids who are missing but don't qualify for AMBER Alert. Named for Codi Bigsby who has never been found. Committee reports bill"
X Link 2024-02-01T13:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Leave it to @JoshuaCole to bring Proverbs [----] ("A man who isolates himself seeks his own desires; he rages against all wise judgment.") to the House Public Safety subcommittee to PREACH why solitary confinement is wrong. Even if they're now calling it restorative housing.🥰"
X Link 2024-02-01T13:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senate technology/cameras really struggling today"
X Link 2024-02-01T14:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Parkland shooting survivor @davidhogg111 testifies in House Firearms subcommittee against a bill that would allow teachers to carry firearms at schools asks: If 300+ law enforcement officers refused to confront a man with a gun at Uvalde what more would arming teachers do"
X Link 2024-02-01T21:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Virginia House of Delegates votes to raise the minimum wage to $13.50 in [----] and $15/hr in [----]. Every single GOP member voted against it despite the fact that 68% of Virginians said in recent @WasonCenter polling they support it"
X Link 2024-02-02T17:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yay here it is @DelRodWillett gives point of personal privilege to pay tribute to Richmond-native @lucydacus for winning #GRAMMYs last night (through Boy Genius) and Annandale music teacher Annie Ray who won a Music Educator Award at last night's award show. .cc @kelsey_wright8"
X Link 2024-02-05T17:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
".@JenniferBoysko bill that started out making sure ppl w/ developmental disorders/autism wouldn't be arrested & kicked into criminal justice system for assaulting a law enforcement officer (w/ no harm) & now just provides an affirmative defense to those charges passes Senate"
X Link 2024-02-05T18:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate passes @CreighDeeds ban on assault weapons on a party-line vote"
X Link 2024-02-07T18:07Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
".@SenLouiseLucas opens Finance mtg saying she is NOT docketing the "half-baked Glenn dome" bc it places too much risk on the VA. "The more we use the reputation of the Commonwealth to finance billionaires' projects the more we risk not being able to finance our own projects.""
X Link 2024-02-12T13:14Z [----] followers, 14.1K engagements
".@ssurovell Climate Innovation Authority (a "green bank" i.e. to tap into available federal funds to encourage entrepreneurial investments in clean energy projects) reports from Finance. "For every $3 million we invest the federal government will lend us another $97 million.""
X Link 2024-02-12T14:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senate passes @GhazalaHashmi bill affirming the right to contraception which she points out seems necessary in light of Justice Thomas saying we should "reconsider contraception.""
X Link 2024-02-12T17:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Update: LG Sears votes nay killing the bill. .@RussetPerry voting with GOP on this @lashrecseaird bill changing the penalties for failure to appear in court when required is causing a tie vote that the LG is now conferring to decide how to break the tie. https://t.co/Q6NWfcOwBs .@RussetPerry voting with GOP on this @lashrecseaird bill changing the penalties for failure to appear in court when required is causing a tie vote that the LG is now conferring to decide how to break the tie. https://t.co/Q6NWfcOwBs"
X Link 2024-02-13T16:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senate currently spending a half hour on potentially the longest day of session debating a bill that every single person knows will be passed on a party-line vote. (Minimum wage increase.)"
X Link 2024-02-13T16:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Some folks speaking on the floor today per closed captions: Delegate O Machine Doug Russo Delegator Delegate Gian Delegate Mill Day Dug a Marat Delegate Laver Bowling Delegate Bet They were often seeking to re-enact the sex code or the Sex Dakota. This tech has aways to go.😕"
X Link 2024-02-23T03:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@BreRVA It's almost incomprehensible. And I know it doesn't have to be this bad--whatever system Microsoft Teams uses always seems to produce nearly perfect transcription"
X Link 2024-02-23T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""'no explanation or citation of any legal exemption was given'" for denying "numerous requests by NBC4 Washington for documents and records related to the proposed deal to bring the Washington Wizards and Capitals to Virginia." VA FOIA is such a joke"
X Link 2024-02-23T12:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Looks like the General Assembly is getting close to passing a bill that would allow all localities to levy a local tax (by referendum) to raise money for school construction currently only allowed to select localities. There are crumbling schools over a hundred years old in VA"
X Link 2024-02-26T17:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senator Obenshain says on Senate floor that we're already paying teachers lots and we're "doing really well on teacher compensation.""
X Link 2024-02-27T18:21Z [----] followers, 10.9K engagements
"In Senate Courts it's unanimous (sort of) to report out @Keys_Gamarra bill to end child marriage. Four GOP Senators either aren't sure whether they agree or have a conflict of interest (😉 )"
X Link 2024-02-28T21:19Z [----] followers, 10.2K engagements
"Tearful @LauraJaneCohen re: GOP peer reading aloud yesterday Jewish slur from article. "These words are not new. The images are not new. I thought coming here would be different & I would leave that behind. Today I'm standing up in this body to say we will not be used as pawns.""
X Link 2024-03-05T16:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@LauraJaneCohen As @LauraJaneCohen points out it's incredibly disingenuous for the same people giving floor speeches about Israel and antisemitism to have spent the weekend standing with and applauding Donald Trump who called actual modern-day Nazis "very fine people.""
X Link 2024-03-05T17:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Del Gilbert just threw the Virginia Way (as the legislature uses the term) in the toilet flipping out at @MarkSicklesVA taking a floor speech to joke lightly about the ongoing debate over cost of JIF pb. (Rs blaming Biden and Dem policies when it's obviously corporate profits.)"
X Link 2024-03-07T15:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nice Sen. vote to accept conference report on @ssurovell green infrastructure fund to tap into $350b pool of federal money to leverage $330 million in loans for climate resiliency projects; ie. schools putting solar panels up at 1/2 price bc they're leaning on feds credit rating"
X Link 2024-03-09T20:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The #2 most progressive in the House on our scorecard is @NadariusClarkVA whose innovative bills on mental health professional loan repayment programs implicit bias training for medical professionals & anti-rent gouging caught our attention early & his great voting matched"
X Link 2024-03-20T16:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Pretty much the entire criminal justice platform vetoed despite many of these bills having bipartisan support. What is the point of working across the aisle and making compromises if a partisan hack like this will just veto it anyway Gov. Youngkin vetoed [--] more bills https://t.co/KWxtUuyeYB Gov. Youngkin vetoed [--] more bills https://t.co/KWxtUuyeYB"
X Link 2024-03-21T00:31Z [----] followers, 10.2K engagements
"🤔 I get that this gets around the oft-mentioned problem of financing the arena on the credit-rating of VA.but if FFX was up in arms over the casino idea already I don't see how they're going to vote 👍 on an Arenasino () Also I thought they were locked into DC until [----] LOL wuuuuuut https://t.co/dpynKZAKXx https://t.co/hL40gxMXSf LOL wuuuuuut https://t.co/dpynKZAKXx https://t.co/hL40gxMXSf"
X Link 2024-03-24T15:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"aka Virginia taxpayers just paid for Youngkin to take a tax deduction for donating to an anti-LGBTQ+ organization. @GlennYoungkin Small correction: it was to two clinics getting $21875 so about $42K. Notably one of the clinics Straight Street "a Christian outreach ministry that supports at-risk teens" is not among the free clinics who would lose out in the free clinic funding in my story. @GlennYoungkin Small correction: it was to two clinics getting $21875 so about $42K. Notably one of the clinics Straight Street "a Christian outreach ministry that supports at-risk teens" is not among the"
X Link 2024-03-26T19:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"611000 workers stood to get a wage increase--not even catching up with inflation since the [----] bill. 56% of all Virginia voters agreed they should. 400+ religious leaders agreed & asked Youngkin to sign it. But Youngkin vetoed bc he cares only for his rich business friends"
X Link 2024-03-29T11:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Repeated refrain re: poor relationship b/w Youngkin & his own party. Note they ALSO aren't carrying water for him on the budget. "Youngkin never enjoyed vocal support from Republican legislators who mostly kept their heads down as the deal imploded." https://fortune.com/2024/04/02/washington-wizards-capitals-virginia-deal-fallout/ https://fortune.com/2024/04/02/washington-wizards-capitals-virginia-deal-fallout/"
X Link 2024-04-02T23:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I would argue that the emperor has no clothes (or as the caption reads acumen). He has zero signature accomplishments. The Glenn-dome was his last chance to HAVE a legacy. And he screwed that up too with his inability to negotiate or see that he needed to"
X Link 2024-04-04T12:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Congrats to @DelegateCallsen and @BarbaraFavola on the signing of their kinship foster care Parental Child Safety Placement Program bills to promote placing kids with relatives and keeping them out of the foster care system when possible"
X Link 2024-04-09T02:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's funny--when you strip out the💰Virginia could be collecting from marijuana retail sales--if Youngkin hadn't vetoed it--and the💰Virginia could be collecting from RGGI participation--if Youngkin hadn't pulled us out--you're left scrambling to make cuts to balance the budget"
X Link 2024-04-09T03:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@sicsemperty2 And they would have under this bill. It required approval through a voter referendum for any locality to raise their own local sales tax temporarily to fund school construction projects"
X Link 2024-04-09T03:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Looks to me like Northam and the Democratic trifecta finally increasing the minimum wage and giving workers better benefits is paying off in a strong labor supply Good work Dems Too bad that progress now grinds to a halt by Youngkin vetoing further minimum wage and benefits. This is so dishonest. In fact Youngkin's had almost no legislative accomplishments in his 2+ years in office so the extent VA's economy is strong that's due to: a) the hot US economy overall (thanks Biden); b) the strong situation Youngkin INHERITED. https://t.co/DcGVpo1ANj https://t.co/ZwPd5If60b This is so dishonest."
X Link 2024-04-11T11:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"GOP Delegates Arnold Austin Ballard Bloxom Campbell Davis Kilgore Knight Marshall Morefield Owen Phillips Tata Taylor Wachsmann Ware and Wright voted yea on the floor. If they represent you call/email and ask them to stand by their vote & vote to override Crumbling schools is not a partisan issue. Wednesday we return to Richmond and it is in all Virginians' interest that we override the Governor's veto of bipartisan bill HB805 and allow localities to begin repairing their schools. https://t.co/91E7Wd58GB Crumbling schools is not a partisan issue. Wednesday we return to Richmond and it is in"
X Link 2024-04-15T15:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"No dice on the governor's recommendations on @AaronRouseVaBch Virginia skill games bill. A resounding bipartisan vote"
X Link 2024-04-17T16:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yikes. Someone did NOT learn how to make friends Governors recommendations getting a frosty reception from both sides of the aisle https://t.co/7i6TI3SgNN Governors recommendations getting a frosty reception from both sides of the aisle https://t.co/7i6TI3SgNN"
X Link 2024-04-17T18:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""If they rose by [--] feet many of these areas would be heavily submerged including parts of the state's three most populous cities Virginia Beach Chesapeake and Norfolk." https://www.newsweek.com/virginia-map-shows-where-state-could-underwater-sea-level-rise-1896429 https://www.newsweek.com/virginia-map-shows-where-state-could-underwater-sea-level-rise-1896429"
X Link 2024-05-08T13:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Special session schedule today: 10:00 - Joint 💰 committee meeting to receive the new budget 12:00 - House and Senate gavel in vote on budget Should pass by larger margins without Youngkin's digital tax and without RGGI provision (not sure what Dems got in exchange for it)"
X Link 2024-05-13T11:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If Youngkin doesn't appoint a Diversity EQUITY & Inclusion director by July the💰reverts to the cannabis fund. .@ssurovell: "Sometimes following a law you dont agree with is uncomfortable but when you raise your right hand and swear to God." https://virginiamercury.com/2024/05/15/will-youngkin-appoint-a-dei-director-as-the-state-budget-directs/ https://virginiamercury.com/2024/05/15/will-youngkin-appoint-a-dei-director-as-the-state-budget-directs/"
X Link 2024-05-15T11:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"No idea wtf this is even about but @FiveGuys a local small business American success story certainly does not deserve this kind of crap. I hope they know that this hyperpartisan creep does not represent Virginia burger 🍔 and fries 🍟 lovers Remember kids only you can prevent Marxism https://t.co/4KX0nH8MFf Remember kids only you can prevent Marxism https://t.co/4KX0nH8MFf"
X Link 2024-05-29T14:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Charming that after voting against every criminal justice reform policy addressing how badly the criminal legal system is stacked against the accused this delegate suddenly thinks the system is rigged now that his rich white powerful former President is the one on trial. As a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney for the past [--] years I have never been so struck by this level of fundamental unfairness in a criminal proceeding. This was a rigged show trial replete with legal errors obvious biases and political agendas. As a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney for the past [--] years I"
X Link 2024-05-30T21:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@drmkchr @BreRVA @DominionEnergy I think maybe only during extreme weather periods"
X Link 2024-05-31T12:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
".and that's why HE SIGNED the language making the cuts right Look be honest people it was a bipartisan bicameral agreement to cut money to this program because it was getting expensive and we have a government that won't tax enough to pay for its programs. New statement from @GlennYoungkin on @VASenateDems's failure to pass a #VMSDEP fix: "These men and women deserve so much better." #VAleg https://t.co/84gXK5PKrP New statement from @GlennYoungkin on @VASenateDems's failure to pass a #VMSDEP fix: "These men and women deserve so much better." #VAleg https://t.co/84gXK5PKrP"
X Link 2024-06-19T12:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I wonder what Youngkin has to say about this man calling @SenLouiseLucas a b----. Does he condone using derogatory misogynistic slurs towards our legislators According to his Facebook page Tom Coffin briefly met with Youngkin this morning along with other members advocating for WMSDEP. https://t.co/NFYUJkQQwn According to his Facebook page Tom Coffin briefly met with Youngkin this morning along with other members advocating for WMSDEP. https://t.co/NFYUJkQQwn"
X Link 2024-06-29T01:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
".@MarkSicklesVA in Joint HHR Oversight Subcommittee speaks of historic investment the General Assembly just made in developmental health care: "Not nearly what we need but we've never spent more.""
X Link 2024-07-09T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hello police I'd like to report a murder. 😂😂 Unlike you I dont get paid to tweet all day. Glad you find value in your followers b/c you have no influence in your caucus. [--] years later no leadership role a backbencher and an instagram influencerbut congratspeople see you. I hope Speaker Scott sees you too Unlike you I dont get paid to tweet all day. Glad you find value in your followers b/c you have no influence in your caucus. [--] years later no leadership role a backbencher and an instagram influencerbut congratspeople see you. I hope Speaker Scott sees you too"
X Link 2024-07-10T15:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@LoudounJames1 I know conspiracy theories and fake news are fun for some people but it takes just ten seconds to find this information on the Virginia Department of Elections website. A social security number is required to register to vote. https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/how-to-register/ https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/how-to-register/"
X Link 2024-08-08T03:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"🤬 Happy National Blame a Union (if you're a Republican) Day Count on today's GOP to be wholly out of touch with the American people. And it was the teachers UNION that pushed to keep our schools closed creating learning loss. Individual teachers across the commonwealth are certainly heroes because of their influence and they have received raises every year for the past [--] to [--] years to show it. And it was the teachers UNION that pushed to keep our schools closed creating learning loss. Individual teachers across the commonwealth are certainly heroes because of their influence and they have"
X Link 2024-09-02T15:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin keeps playing lapdog to Donald Trump.Shame on him for placating an insurrectionist a convicted felon and someone whose incompetent response to the COVID-19 pandemic killed hundreds of thousands of Americans." https://virginiamercury.com/2024/09/03/in-sop-to-ex-president-youngkin-panders-about-nonexistent-voting-by-noncitizens/emci=c2684e4a-8269-ef11-991a-6045bdd9e096&emdi=2efdddb6-e369-ef11-991a-6045bdd9e096&ceid=344025"
X Link 2024-09-03T11:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Elex Commish in House Privileges & Elections mtg says her greatest concern for this election is the performance of the US Postal Service. Good thing Dems passed a law for [--] days of no excuse in person early voting (and haven't let Republicans shorten it since) & drop boxes"
X Link 2024-09-04T18:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I always love when the GOP Administration's rep comes to the Finance Committee & tells legislature how great the economy is doing GDP growing "inflation under control" consumer demand high etc. Because their "boss" Governor Youngkin loves to say the opposite on Faux News"
X Link 2024-09-17T13:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In Senate Finance @ssurovell asks Chief "Transformation" Officer--who boasted about improvements to VADOC re-entry program--if Gov Youngkin is reconsidering his position on the restoration of voting rights which has been shown to improve outcomes for re-entering persons. 💥"
X Link 2024-09-17T15:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A number of speakers from Virginia colleges give testimony at Senate Education and Health Committee telling about their treatment at the hands of campus law enforcement. GOP senators continue to interrupt questioning and arguing with the language choices of witnesses etc"
X Link 2024-09-17T20:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Listening to the CASC (Commonwealth's Atty Services Council) meeting where they're discussing whether to allow former prosecutor Phil Evans (who was scolded by the 4th Circuit for serious Brady violations in VA's last death penalty case) to teach CLE classes to other lawyers"
X Link 2024-09-25T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
".@fatehinorfolk who took over as CA the office where Phil Evans was working when he violated Brady rules in VA's last death penalty case registered a complaint about assigning Phil Evans to teach CASC CLE Murder One and Two classes to other lawyers"
X Link 2024-09-25T16:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SteveDescano Gotta check the VA budget but how do we feel about our tax dollars being spent on a Council that seems to have full autonomy to hire people who "fundamentally misunderstand" the relevant law to teach that law"
X Link 2024-09-25T16:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SteveDescano Oh sounds like the CASC Chair was involved with the death penalty case in question that Evans violated Brady. That might explain why she's so inclined to keep him on as teacher"
X Link 2024-09-25T17:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Let's be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election a federal judge ruled that Glenn Youngkin VIOLATED THE LAW. (It isn't the first time either.) Lets be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over [----] individualswho self-identified themselves as noncitizensback onto the voter rolls. https://t.co/QwloK1Sxr4 Lets be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over [----] individualswho"
X Link 2024-10-25T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Here we are again a couple months before the next legislative session and again I ask: Where do you want to find my content Is it time to leave X and where can I reach y'all if so (I'm still here because y'all are still here. 🔁)"
X Link 2024-11-08T13:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Testimony in House P&E: "women ALREADY have the right to murder" 🤔"
X Link 2024-11-13T18:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Oh yay Gov Youngkin starts his budget remarks with some drivel about Christmas and Advent. Always love to hear about Christian traditions in our government meetings. /snark"
X Link 2024-12-18T14:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Youngkin renews his call to eliminate the car tax something he demanded last budget cycle but then didn't negotiate to fund. Now he suggests an incremental car tax credit based on income funded by this year's surplus"
X Link 2024-12-18T14:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Youngkin mentions ALL the federal govt agencies/depts he's contacted seeking Hurricane relief funds to repair SWVA communities says his budget creates a new relief fund. But ofc when he illegally took VA out of RGGI he literally threw away funds specifically for that relief"
X Link 2024-12-18T15:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@Debra4Delegate HB1759 would require the Dept of Workforce Development to provide job search assistance to returning citizens following release from prison. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1759 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1759"
X Link 2025-01-06T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"HB1796 (@HelmerVA) would make Virginia the 5th state to recognize DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations--typically used for cryptocurrency transactions) as legal entities joining VT WY TN and UT. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1796 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1796"
X Link 2025-01-07T03:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@indiependent1 Can you explain This isn't really one of my areas of expertise"
X Link 2025-01-07T04:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Completely disagree with this @RussetPerry bill that would keep local prosecutors from making Brady lists (of cops who lied or withheld critical evidence in cases/trials) or local law enforcement from firing cops for lying/withholding evidence. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1274/text/SB1274 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1274/text/SB1274"
X Link 2025-01-11T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Never in my life thought I would hear a woman testifying against child support 😯 (This is a @ssurovell bill to raise the mandated rates in Virginia to keep up with inflation an increase of somewhere from $30-100 depending on income.)"
X Link 2025-01-13T14:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Quick fact check on Youngkin saying people are moving to Virginia finally. Yes slightly but like in other states it's due to immigrants who he and his party are constantly villainizing"
X Link 2025-01-13T15:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Youngkin says in SOTC we have an "existential crisis" in our schools. I thought maybe he was talking about school shootings & kids living in fear of being killed at school or watching their friends die. But he was talking about kids using cell phones and being on social media"
X Link 2025-01-13T15:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"👀 Check out this @Lopez4VA bill to tax firearms and ammo purchases. Revenues directed towards gun violence prevention and school safety. Heck yes https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2558 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2558"
X Link 2025-01-13T23:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Re: the "existential crisis" at our schools (surprisingly not kids being killed by assault weapons) here's a bill prohibiting TikTok from giving kids access and allowing parents to sue if they do. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2568 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2568"
X Link 2025-01-13T23:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@RipSullivan6 puts some clean energy restrictions on data centers to qualify for the (already-existing) tax credit. If they're getting a tax break they shouldn't be allowed to irresponsibly worsen our ability to meet clean energy goals. https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2578 https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2578"
X Link 2025-01-13T23:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"House passes abortion constitutional amendment resolution so that "people who probably couldn't find a uterus with a map are not making decisions about women's healthcare" (@CandiMundonKing)"
X Link 2025-01-14T18:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Virginia House passes marriage equality constitutional amendment. This will need to pass again next session and then the voters of Virginia can decide in November [----] whether to remove the odious Marshall-Newman Amendment"
X Link 2025-01-14T20:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate Privileges and Elections reports @JenniferBoysko's reproductive healthcare constitutional amendment resolution out on a party-line vote"
X Link 2025-01-14T21:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate announces new committee assignments. I didn't catch them all (@Kannanforva to P&E and I think Transportation) but noted that @BarbaraFavola has been added as the newest member of Senate Judiciary"
X Link 2025-01-15T17:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Tomorrow morning bright and early: 7:30 House CC&T Sub 2: @VA_JET data center site assessment bill 8:00 House Pub Safety Sub: @HollySeiboldVA prison temperature monitoring bill 8:30 Senate Ed & Health: @BarbaraFavola prohibition on extradition for abortion care"
X Link 2025-01-16T03:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@SenBagby explains to Senate Courts re: his SB1255 that while law enforcement in most jurisdictions do not shackle youths in their courtrooms there are some that will shackle every single child regardless of any danger flight risk etc. This is a @JusticeFwdVa bill"
X Link 2025-01-20T13:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Sheriffs claim that they're the trained "experts" on whether a kid needs to be shackled and shifts that to the judge. (Prince William Sheriff puts leg chains on every kid @ssurovell says and asked if they were "trained" to do that.)"
X Link 2025-01-20T13:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Senate passes @JenniferBoysko constitutional amendment resolution that would enshrine the provisions of Roe v Wade in Virginia's constitution. It must pass again in the [----] legislative session and the voters will have it on their [----] general election ballot"
X Link 2025-01-21T20:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Once everyone realized that a motion to incorporate did not necessarily add any of its language into the bill Craig withdrew her motion and instead moved to vote on a yet-unwritten substitute that would include her language"
X Link 2025-01-23T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The tl:dr here is that this was a move to sneak into a popular Gaming Commission bill some skill games regulation that (unfortunately imo) doesn't have the support to pass on its own. And it was largely blocked by Ebbin and McPike who were quicker on parliamentary moves"
X Link 2025-01-23T15:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@ssurovell asks @SenDaveMarsden whether he's concerned that his bill would result in more people sitting in custody waiting for bail assessment which most jurisdictions don't have personnel to cover. @RussetPerry says her first job was doing pretrial risk assessments"
X Link 2025-01-27T14:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@RussetPerry is also disturbed that the proposed pre-trial risk assessment tool somehow doesn't involve interviewing the actual person whose risk they're assessing"
X Link 2025-01-27T14:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@JCarrollFoy agrees w/ part of @SenDaveMarsden bill that every bail hearing should have a pretrial risk assessment tool but feels that language in this bill implies a presumption against bail which the legislature has eliminated in previous years. The bill is killed in Courts"
X Link 2025-01-27T14:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sometimes you pop into a House subcommittee and hear a GOP member (in this case former Speaker Del Gilbert) say something utterly disturbing: "when the evidence didn't bear out on global warming language the narrative changed to climate change." WHAT"
X Link 2025-01-30T21:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Senate passes @ssurovell public sector collective bargaining bill. This will 100% be vetoed by the Gov if it makes it through the House and to his desk; however it's still a big deal for it to pass the Senate for the first () time"
X Link 2025-02-04T16:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Bill from @RipSullivan6 to encourage utilities to develop energy storage passes House with teeny bit of bipartisan support"
X Link 2025-02-04T18:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"92-5 vote in House to pass @AdeleMcClure_ bill issuing special @Commanders license plates #HTTC"
X Link 2025-02-04T18:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The last bill before crossover: @AaronRouseVA bill to protect federal government workers from eviction during a partial government shutdown or furlough passes the Senate with wide support"
X Link 2025-02-04T21:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is a BIPARTISAN bill that's been patroned by legislators from BOTH parties for several yrs ALLOWING localities to use local sales taxes to pay for school construction--which a handful already are allowed. I guess the kids can just stay in their leaky moldy schools w/o AC. This Governor is out of touch. https://t.co/itKYtWR8Rd This Governor is out of touch. https://t.co/itKYtWR8Rd"
X Link 2025-03-25T01:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Nick Freitas says raising the minimum wage will result in lots of people losing their jobs (Only problem is that we've ALREADY raised the minimum wage for the last four years and Virginia's unemployment rate is far lower than the national average)"
X Link 2025-04-02T18:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Excited to be (volunteering) at the @opengovva annual conference with great speakers on the opacity of animal testing research AI and open data data centers and solar projects transparency and lots more. All in the beautiful Court Square Theater in Harrisonburg"
X Link 2025-04-03T15:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"WILD graph in ODU presentation to Senate Subcommittee on Federal Resource Cuts shows consumer expectations about how Trump's tariffs will affect inflation. (People in both parties are saying economic conditions are starting to deteriorate.) Stagflation is starting to look likely"
X Link 2025-05-20T14:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Dem LG Debate 1/2 Q: How'll you help workers hurt by Trump policies Bastani: min wage student debt relief repeal RTW Salgado: access to capital business credit bus. tax relief Lateef: unemployment Medicaid job training Hashmi: job training health benefits state agencies"
X Link 2025-05-22T23:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BreRVA @roryf_RVA Yes they're just not currently alllowed on state right-of-ways (where they're under state police control) currently. Local law enforcement are allowed to use them on roads in their jurisdiction"
X Link 2025-06-30T18:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Did they chat about this The VA GOP's [----] LG nominee is a strong believer that "Guns Save Lives." If you agree with that then by all means vote for him. If not then definitely vote for Democrat Ghazala Hashmi https://t.co/4feUzaDB5H https://t.co/65JCIABbaZ The VA GOP's [----] LG nominee is a strong believer that "Guns Save Lives." If you agree with that then by all means vote for him. If not then definitely vote for Democrat Ghazala Hashmi https://t.co/4feUzaDB5H https://t.co/65JCIABbaZ"
X Link 2025-07-14T12:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Spoiler: they aren't Who are they People who asked for asylum were granted a hearing & came to the hearing. ICE lawyers had the case dismissed & masked plainclothes agents not identifying themselves as such abducted them on exit. Often while their wife & kids watch helpless"
X Link 2025-07-24T13:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Hardly any restrictions" = someone (perhaps in a small remote town) whose doctor tells her she will DIE if she doesn't have this 3rd trimester abortion ASAP needs to go searching for two MORE doctors to agree with that opinion before she can have life-saving medical care. M'kay. NEW: John Reid implies current abortion laws in VA should be stricter & expressed support for legislation to further restrict reproductive rights. "There's hardly any restrictions at all as it currently exists so I guess it would depend on what the legislation would look like." https://t.co/lM0E0INw8y NEW: John Reid"
X Link 2025-08-08T17:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@LegislativeAI But it seems like most of this money is already committed to programs that come into being next year & are prepaid. Granted that means not having to pay for them next year and money is fungible but it's still not super forthright to call it a cushion when it's mostly committed"
X Link 2025-08-14T15:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Del Simon asks in House Emergency Committee mtg: there are very specific triggers allowing us to access the rainy day fund and the "Big Beautiful Bill" was not one of those triggers correct Staff confirms this is correct the funds cannot be used for that"
X Link 2025-08-14T16:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The rainy day fund is restricted by the constitution can only access when 2% decrease in revenue against adopted budget. Revenue reserve fund more accessible but shouldn't be used for ongoing commitments: "Prudent fiscal policy is very measured on how you use those resources.""
X Link 2025-08-14T16:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Watching House P&E where Chair @DelCiaPrice85 mentions shout-outs to VA at Nat'l Conference of State Legislators for improving access to voting.while breaking news headline pops up re: Trump wanting to use an executive order to "get rid of voting machines and mail-in ballots.""
X Link 2025-08-18T14:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Another member speaking specifically of mobile home parks suggests that sometimes when these communities go up for sale they will require a tremendous amount of infrastructure investment in repair/upkeep and a "mom and pop investor" won't have the equity to do that"
X Link 2025-08-19T15:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"According to VDOT presentation to VA Crime Commission tens of thousands of people are injured or killed by speeding per year. 45% of fatal crashes are speed-related"
X Link 2025-08-19T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"From today's presentation at House Emgcy Committee on Federal Cuts (Joint today w House Approps): 24% of VA's economic activity is reliant on the federal government as an employer a consumer and an investor. Federal government spending is inextricably linked to VA economy"
X Link 2025-09-11T14:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Okay fam what substantive policy questions are you hoping will be asked tomorrow during the gubernatorial debate between Sears and Spanberger"
X Link 2025-10-08T21:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sears on her attacks on trans folks: Im not taking a stand because it's the easy thing to do of course its not easy. Im being abused for it.it's almost like it's the civil rights movement all over again. But somebody has to say this is not right. https://www.wvtf.org/news/2025-10-15/virginias-candidates-for-governor-on-guns-trans-issues-and-campaign-enthusiasm https://www.wvtf.org/news/2025-10-15/virginias-candidates-for-governor-on-guns-trans-issues-and-campaign-enthusiasm"
X Link 2025-10-15T18:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Oddly I don't see anything on Miyares' account denouncing the thousands of hateful homophobic antisemitic pro-slavery r@pe-friendly messages leaders of the Young Republican National Federation exchanged. And we aren't talking kids we're talking 18-40 year olds"
X Link 2025-10-15T20:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I also liked Miyares' claim that he doesn't consider this a political office. When he constantly wastes our tax dollars getting his office involved in useless culture war litigation so he can get a spot on Fox News. Never mind that the cases get thrown out in court for no merit. One of the most laughably false things Miyares said tonight was that he supposedly just calls balls and strikes - and that hes sued both the Biden and Trump administrations. Uh huh. https://t.co/OgawvjX1Yq https://t.co/mQtCW6UK7G One of the most laughably false things Miyares said tonight was that he supposedly just"
X Link 2025-10-17T00:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"🛗 ELEVATOR PITCH THURSDAY: In one tweet pitch an idea you have for a bill youd like to see Virginia pass next session Whats your #1 priority change to Virginia law"
X Link 2021-06-24T12:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Chair Greta Harris says You have to believe that people sitting across the table from you are sincere. I am appealing to the Supreme Court of Virginia to lift up fairness in whatever you do to draw maps. I dont feel that all members are sincere. Regrettably I am done"
X Link 2021-10-08T18:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Democrats seem to be willing to agree to a 5-4-2 split. [--] safe Dem districts [--] safe Repub ones and two (most likely [--] and 7) that are as close to 50-50 as possible"
X Link 2021-10-20T14:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"To be clear here is how the 1.5% grocery tax is spent. Do I love the tax No its a pretty regressive tax. But I want to replace that money for public education from somewhere. Estate tax corporate tax wealth tax etc"
X Link 2022-02-03T11:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ehartman1975 Honestly seeing the way the political winds might blow sometimes I think Northam should have spent it on some big ticket item for Virginia that couldnt be undone this year. (Im mostly kidding.)"
X Link 2022-02-03T12:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@A_Siegel Im not sure it brings in enough revenue for that but its a great start for sure"
X Link 2022-02-03T12:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Think about what presumption against bail means: If youre accused of something serious the burden falls to you to PROVE that you shouldnt have to sit in prison waiting for trial. Your liberty is taken from you based on an ACCUSATION. Innocent until proven guilty Not so much"
X Link 2022-06-17T13:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@LynleeGThorne @RadRepubVA @royermattw Exactly. For example @VDEM receives in addition to state local and private donation funding funds from the federal EMPG (emergency mgmt grant pgm) HSGP (homeland security grant pgm) and NSGP (nonprofit grant pgm)"
X Link 2025-02-16T13:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"On ALPR bill @ssurovell says on Senate floor that it is @C_Herring's intention not to let this bill go to conference and to accept the Senate amendments (the re-enactment clause on expansion and the shorter retention of data) when they come back to the House"
X Link 2025-02-20T17:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"House announces that tomorrow will be a time warp. They will come in at 2:00pm and be in the [----] special session I; adjourn then recess for [--] minutes; and return to [----] regular session; votes on the budget expected around 4:00 pm"
X Link 2025-02-21T21:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Sturtevant on Senate floor says he isn't voting for the budget allegedly because it doesn't include anything to help federal workers. Even though--as we heard at this AM House Emergency mtg--we do not yet have ANY parameters on how severe the crisis or what needs they'll have"
X Link 2025-02-22T21:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Trump--er I mean Youngkin--ignores GOP-appointed House Clerk's finding that his line-item veto of Medicaid reimbursements to nursing homes was unconstitutional and he thus withholds urgently needed funds to care for Virginia's seniors. Sorry Grandma 👵🏻 https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_58598e9a-083b-4463-95a5-b72f4dfef6b7.html https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_58598e9a-083b-4463-95a5-b72f4dfef6b7.html"
X Link 2025-07-02T12:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Correction: Earle-Sears was aggressive (and rude) because that's her manner and she did not make any attempt to keep control over herself. Straight out of the Trump debate playbook. My Virginia debate hot take Dont think was game changer either way Spanberger played it safe while Earle-Sears was aggressive bc behind Spanberger on defensive regarding Jones texts Earle-Sears comments about same-sex marriage will be used by Dems but not sure moves dials My Virginia debate hot take Dont think was game changer either way Spanberger played it safe while Earle-Sears was aggressive bc behind"
X Link 2025-10-10T00:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yes Ms Sears that in fact IS exactly discrimination. .@winwithwinsome that is in fact discrimination. https://t.co/wACougzSKG .@winwithwinsome that is in fact discrimination. https://t.co/wACougzSKG"
X Link 2025-10-10T00:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Do you know who is NOT joining the lawsuit to sue Trump to protect SNAP benefits Jason Miyares that's who. Do you know who is NOT trying to protect low-income Virginians from being unable to feed their families Jason Miyares. THIS is why we need to elect @jonesjay in a week"
X Link 2025-10-28T17:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Not sure why the Alt text isn't sticking to this photo but it's a headline from CNBC that reads "States sue Trump administration to keep SNAP benefits during government shutdown""
X Link 2025-10-28T17:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ridiculous exchange in Senate as LG Sears claims the resolution needs a 2/3 vote to pass (it passed by simple majority) her ruling is overturned by the body of the Senate and she refuses to acknowledge that the resolution thereby passed but the record WILL reflect so"
X Link 2025-10-29T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Virginia Senate has a Charlie Kirk memorial resolution on the floor this morning. I will not be reporting any further on it"
X Link 2025-10-31T13:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@ssurovell on early voters: They voted before the shutdown before the East Wing of the White House was torn down before they knew whether the government would extend the health care subsidies lots of things people were unaware of but made up their mind to vote early anyway"
X Link 2025-10-31T14:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"We keep hearing occasional peeps from VA GOP members during this redistricting discussion insinuating-sometimes downright stating-that Trump's coerced mid-decade redistricting in TX & elsewhere to rig Congress's majority is wrong. But none of them said a single word before this"
X Link 2025-10-31T15:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@ssurovell before Virginia Senate passes redistricting amendment: What do you do when one side refuses to play by the rules Do you continue to play by the rules and concede defeat Or do you take actions even if unsavory to protect the principles of democratic government"
X Link 2025-10-31T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"No words for how vile and disgusting this is. And dangerous frankly to rile up a MAGA mob about not wanting those kind of people in this state. Where have we seen this before 🤔 Video: At Rally in Purcellville Glenn Youngkin and John Reid Cut Loose with Repulsive Xenophobia Islamophobia etc.; Claim radical Islamistsare on the march; Declare I dont want @SenatorHashmi anywhere. I dont even want her in the state https://t.co/WXD3bdNMJf https://t.co/fxiHQDbktB Video: At Rally in Purcellville Glenn Youngkin and John Reid Cut Loose with Repulsive Xenophobia Islamophobia etc.; Claim radical"
X Link 2025-11-02T15:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@GoadGatsby @Jaaavis I've always kinda identified her as West Virginia too. We'll miss her entertaining us though"
X Link 2025-11-09T13:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I hope to be wrong here (Although the timing will definitely lead to news stories next year headlined "Test scores tumble under new Spanberger administration.") Unfortunately once Youngkin politicized curriculum and testing it became impossible to trust this administration. @vaplan2018 This is a wrong take - we have the lowest math & reading cut scores in the country. This increase is supported by the leading education civil rights group The Education Trust. It's most important to raise the bar for the least advantaged kids. https://t.co/wODSXlSK2h @vaplan2018 This is a wrong take - we have"
X Link 2025-11-14T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
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