We are here today to point out what theyâre not saying.
This week, two of the five Democratic candidates announced their plans on two subjects near and dear to our hearts: Jennifer Carroll Foy announced her broadband plan and Jennifer McClellan announced her school plan â which also included some portions on broadband because many of these issues are interconnected. Earlier, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is attempting a comeback, laid out his own schools plan.
Now, as Paul Harvey liked to say, hereâs the rest of the story.
Everybody is for rural broadband, so nobody gets points just for that. Weâre also disinclined to pay much attention to any dollar figures that candidates throw around unless they have some specific funding mechanism behind them. Itâs easy to propose big numbers in a vacuum; itâs another to craft a balanced budget that includes all those priorities. Some things, though, do matter, so letâs look at them.
And so it’s come to this: House Democrats care so little about the poorest localities in the state that they won’t even vote on two measures intended to fix up
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After the planet Uranus was discovered in 1781, astronomers realized that its orbit could only be explained if there was another, yet unseen, planet somewhere beyond it. Based on that, the great French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier publicly predicted the existence â and location â of the planet we now know as Neptune, making it the first planet predicted before it was ever seen.
In that same vein, today we predict the emergence of a type of politician we have yet to see â one that will likely emerge from rural America, perhaps even rural Virginia.
Before we get to that point, letâs work through the political math. When the parties started realigning in the â60s and â70s, we in the South saw a new type of Democrat arise. Those Democrats declared themselves to be âsocially liberal but fiscally conservativeâ â signaling that they were not the segregationists of a previous generation but werenât radical enough to alarm the business co