Remember last summer’s gubernatorial campaign? All of candidate Abigail Spanberger’s happy talk about affordability, moderation and working across the aisle?
Congratulations, voters. You got played.
If there was any lingering hope that the Democrat majority in Richmond would wield their power judiciously that was laid to rest this week. It’s clear now that Virginians elected a far-left radical as governor and filled the General Assembly with left-wing extremists.
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, the Trojan horse governor may make a show of vetoing a bill or two in order to position herself as a moderate when she seeks national office (you’ve been warned) but by turning Virginia into a sanctuary state with the stroke of a pen on Inauguration Day, she was immediately unmasked.
In one week the new governor and her friends have turned Virginia into a woke DEI-worshipping, Marxist sanctuary state. They’ve proposed massive tax increases, gun restrictions, revolving doors on prisons and abolishing mandatory minimum sentences for serious criminals from kiddie porn peddlers to rapists. They want to make it easy to sue law enforcement officers and hard to lock up criminals. Oh, they also want boys competing in girl’s sports and they have several bills aimed at making voter fraud easier to commit.
These fanatics want to sully the Virginia Constitution with a guaranteed right to kill unborn babies until the moment to birth and they desperately want to rig elections by bringing back Congressional district gerrymandering, which was rejected overwhelmingly by Virginia voters six years ago.
For good measure, the Dems have proposed replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
They are determined to not only turn make Virginia a haven for illegal aliens, felons and climate crazies, but they want to destroy the pro-business economy that the Youngkin administration built.
For instance, two soak-the-rich bills from Northern Virginia Democrats delegates, Vivian Watts and Elizabeth Bennett-Parker, would hike Virginia's top income tax rate from 5.75% to a staggering 13.8%.
That's HIGHER than California, the most taxed state in the nation.
Meanwhile:
🔹 North Carolina: 3.99%
🔹 West Virginia: 4.82%
🔹 Tennessee: 0%
Who would want to locate in Virginia where everything from Amazon deliveries to dry cleaning to landscaping equipment will be subject to new taxes and where those with wealth are punished.
The only industry that looks to prosper in the Spanberger era are moving companies.
With each passing day Virginians learn the raw meaning of “elections have consequences.”
There’s nothing left to do but storm the polls this April to reject the grotesque amendments the far-left Democrats want to graft onto Virginia’s Constitution.
See you there.
