After serving as Virginia’s lieutenant governor and governor and extensively traveling the state, Kaine told supporters Tuesday at Richmond’s Hippodrome Theater, he’s confident Virginians will again reject former President Donald Trump and Republicans like him who “want to tear us down and tear us apart.”
It s not unusual for Gov. Glenn Youngkin to attend Republican caucus meetings in the General Assembly, but the governor went further on the final day of the legislative session to personally lobby Republican legislators to vote against the budget bills pending before the legislature that afternoon.
Youngkin s unusual gesture did not go over well with the Democrats who control both chambers of the assembly, especially Senate Finance Chair Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, and House Appropriations Chairman Luke Torian, D-Prince William, already locked in a power struggle with the Republican governor over tax policy and the $2 billion sports complex in Alexandria that he has made his top priority.
It s not unusual for Gov. Glenn Youngkin to attend Republican caucus meetings in the General Assembly, but the governor went further on the final day of the legislative session to personally lobby Republican legislators to vote against the budget bills pending before the legislature that afternoon.
Youngkin s unusual gesture did not go over well with the Democrats who control both chambers of the assembly, especially Senate Finance Chair Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, and House Appropriations Chairman Luke Torian, D-Prince William, already locked in a power struggle with the Republican governor over tax policy and the $2 billion sports complex in Alexandria that he has made his top priority.
The General Assembly adopted a new state budget to end its 60-day session on time on Saturday, but the war of words is just beginning over a sales tax on