Maddow Blog | Virginia GOP struggles to figure out how to nominate candidates MSNBC 3/10/2021 Steve Benen
Only New Jersey and Virginia will hold statewide elections this year, and in one of them, the Republican Party is struggling mightily to figure out how to nominate candidates. As the
Roanoke Timesreported:
The Republican Party of Virginia is again trying to figure how to nominate its statewide candidates after concluding that a one-site drive-in convention at Liberty University is not feasible. The convergence of as many as 4,000 automobiles and 70 buses at a single venue makes that impossible, Rich Anderson, chairman of the state GOP, wrote to Republican officials Friday.
Virginia GOP struggles to figure out how to nominate candidates
Only New Jersey and Virginia will hold elections this year, and in one of them, the GOP is struggling mightily to figure out how to nominate candidates.
A woman marks down her vote on a ballot for the Democratic presidential primary election at a polling place in Armstrong Elementary School on Super on March 3, 2020 in Herndon, Va.Samuel Corum / Getty Images file
March 10, 2021, 2:20 PM UTC
BySteve Benen
Only New Jersey and Virginia will hold statewide elections this year, and in one of them, the Republican Party is struggling mightily to figure out how to nominate candidates. As the
Twice in the last six weeks, warnings were issued about imminent, grave threats to public safety posed by the same type of right-wing extremists who rioted at the Capitol on January 6. And both times, these warnings ushered in severe security measures only to prove utterly baseless.
(Article by Glenn Greenwald republished from Greenwald.Substack.com)
First we had the hysteria over the violence we were told was likely to occur at numerous state capitols on Inauguration Day. “Law enforcement and state officials are on high alert for potentially violent protests in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, with some state capitols boarded up and others temporarily closed ahead of Wednesday’s ceremony,” announced
Richard Cook for VT
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid Relief Bill, AKA “The American Rescue Plan”, passed Saturday night in the Senate on a party line vote of 50 Democrats vs. 49 Republicans. The Plan may be viewed by history as the start of an entirely new era of U.S. governance.
The Plan is being viewed by many as a resurgence of the New Deal, and with good reason. Government that benefits all the people, not just the elite and their trickle-down minions, is back. It may not be Utopia, but that is always a pipedream. The point is, it will serve and it is fair.