Freshly sworn into office, Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger appointed 27 new members to three university boards Saturday, effectively reshaping governance at the University of Virginia, George Mason University and Virginia Military Institute. Spanberger's wave of appointments comes after state Democrats blocked numerous picks advanced by former Republican governor Glenn Youngkin, who stocked university boards with GOP megadonors and various conservative figures, including former lawmakers and officials.
"We sent a message to every corner of the commonwealth, a message to our neighbors and our fellow Americans across the country," Spanberger told supporters Tuesday night in Richmond. "We sent a message to the whole word that in 2025, Virginia chose pragmatism over partisanship. We chose our commonwealth over chaos."
Democrat Abigail Spanberger has been elected Virginia's first female governor as her party racked up victories in key elections across the southern state. An ex-CIA and federal law enforcement officer who served three terms in the US House of Representatives after flipping a GOP-held district, Spanberger was leading the state's Republican lieutenant governor Winsome Earle-Sears 57% to 43%, with 89% of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) delivered a blistering rebuke of Democratic challenger Jay Jones during Friday's edition of Fox's America Reports, saying Jones wouldn't pass a background check in his attorney general's office. If Jay Jones were applying to be a line prosecutor in my attorney general's office in fact, any attorney general's office in all 50 states he wouldn't pass the background check for the job, said Miyares to Fox's Sandra Smith and John Roberts.
On August 8, 2022, a Republican state legislator received a disturbing string of early-morning text messages from a former colleague, Jay Jones, this year's Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general ... Jones, who at the time had recently resigned from the state house after a brief stint representing Norfolk, had strong feelings about how the political class was eulogizing recently deceased former state legislator Joe Johnson Jr., a moderate Democrat with a long tenure in Virginia politics ...
These radical gender policies are not just some abstract fight over politics they are hurting real children in Fairfax County schools every day. We are working with the U.S. Department of Education to reverse these policies and protect girls in our schools but every Virginia parent needs to understand this: @winwithwinsome will fight with you, and @SpanbergerforVA will fight against you," Youngkin wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Virginia Republicans are losing enthusiasm for Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears due to turmoil in her campaign staff and unfavorable polling against her Democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger.
As I've said over and over on the radio and in my speeches, drag is not for kids, but really, who cares what adults watch or what they do in an of-age restaurant or bar or club?
