mentioning. mccallive s top priority, the post reports, they do hope to take up medicaid expansion and some sort of special session. ezra, your thoughts on what we re learning here about the politics of obamacare in virginia. i don t know how much we re learning actually about the politics of it as much as we re learning about the bare knuckle and often very human politics that we see in legislatures in between members. you know, something i think that is important and the senator would be able to talk about it with more expertise than i can, is that we are still in virginia headed for a somewhat similar collision as we were before. you still have previously you had the senate controlled by democrats, although very, very narrowly. you had the governorship in the hands of terry mccallive. and you had the house controlled by republicans. now you have the house and senate controlled by republicans and the governorship in the hands of mccallive. you still need ultimately for there to b
literally filed the first suit against aca in march 2010, he lost to democrat terry mcauliffe, who s now been working on his campaign promise to expand medicaid in virginia. he placed it in his budget proposal for a fiscal term that actually starts next month. republicans control the state house and the state senate was split 20-20 until, as we ve been reporting, until today. that s when a democratic state senator resigned his seat, giving republicans a one-seat edge and temporary control of the chamber. the man who upended virginia politics today, phillip puckett, may also have upended obamacare s expansion in the state. that is a humanitarian priority for 400,000 virginians. and it carries some extra political impact with all the washington insiders who live in the state and follow its politics. according to reports, puckett struck a sweetheart deal with republicans to vacate his seat and take a plum leadership position on a state commission that doles out money from tobacco settleme