Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (8/6/22)

VA Dems Celebrate Passage of "historic," "transformative" Inflation Reduction Act; Rs Yesli Vega, Ben Cline speak at extremist CPAC conference; "Big warning from Kansas" for Jen Kiggans, etc.

Below are the top Blue Virginia stories from the past week. To support our work at Blue Virginia, please click here. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! 

• Senators Mark Warner, Tim Kaine Celebrate Passage of Inflation Reduction Act

• Video: After All-Nighter, Last-Minute Snag on Inflation Reduction Act Sen. Warner Announces “The End Is Near - I Hope!”

• Video: Insurrectionist/Extremist Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA06) Spews Out Lies at Far-Right CPAC Conference, Rants About “the Squad,” the “Green New Deal,” “folks who think that a boy is a girl,” etc.

• ICYMI: Yesli Vega Appears on Same Stage with Far-Right, Anti-Semitic Dictator

• Video: Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) Releases Ad Highlighting Her Commitment to Gold Star Families

• Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “The number of new COVID cases we diagnosed in the ER fell to its lowest level in a month”

• DCCC: “First [Yesli] Vega said it was less likely for victims of rape to get pregnant, and now she’s suggesting only God can decide to save the life of the mother”

• Friday Virginia COVID-19 Stats: 10-Day New Cases at 30,882; Hospitalizations at 834 (Near Highest Level Since Early March)

• Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07) Rips Extremist Republican Yesli Vega For Questioning Whether Liberal States’ Abortion Laws Are “Acceptable”

• Political Opportunist and Far-Right Extremist Jen Kiggans’ Big Warning From Kansas

• Delegates Paul Krizek and Mark Sickles: Virginia is Blowing in the Wind…with Clean Energy

• Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Says He’s “very glad to vote for the [Inflation Reduction Act]”; Is “very confident we’re going to get to a good place hopefully by the end of the weekend”

• Day After Swastika-Shaped-Logo Controversy, Hanover School Board to Consider Policy Requiring Extensive Background Check for a Transgender Student to Use the Bathroom

• Video: Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) Campaign Releases Third TV Ad, Highlights Jen Kiggans’ Abortion Extremism

• Audio: In Nearly 6-Minute Rant, Right-Wing Virginia Radio Host Rips Glenn Youngkin, Says There’s “a pattern…developing with Gov. Youngkin that he doesn’t back up his own people”

• 600+ Students Raise Alarm Over Potential Virginia Dept. of Education “Don’t Say Gay” Policies

• Southern Poverty Law Center Applauds Resignation of “Lost Cause” Sympathizer from the Virginia Board of Historic Resources

• DCCC: Kansas Abortion Results Demonstrate that “Jen Kiggans, Yesli Vega, and Hung Cao’s agenda to ban abortion isn’t just dangerous - it’s politically toxic”

• Kansans Decide Roe v Wade Was Right After All; Now, We’ll See if the VA GOP Wants to Keep Pushing Their Extreme Views on Abortion Despite Those Resounding Results!”

• [UPDATED: Superintendent Apologizes] Swastika-Style Logo on (Deep-“Red”) Hanover County, VA Schools T-Shirt; Youngkin Sign in Classroom. WTF Is Going On?

• Senators Warner, Kaine Celebrate Passage of PACT Act Bill to Expand Benefits for Toxic-Exposed Veterans

• THE PERFECT MATCH: Anti-Abortion Radical (Winsome Sears) Endorses Anti-Abortion Radical (Yesli Vega) in Virginia

• Video: On “Morning Joe,” Sen. Tim Kaine Says It Was “Astounding” to See Republican Senators “giving each other fist bumps”; After “knifing veterans in the back”

• VA Sierra Club 2022 “Climate, Energy, and Justice Legislative Scorecard”: 58/140 Legislators – ALL Democrats - Get “A” Grades; ALL Republicans Get “F” Grades

• After Barely Losing to Republican Incumbent by <1 Pt. in 2019, Democrat Josh King Announces Again for Prince William County Sheriff

• PolitiFact: “National Republican Group Falsely Claims Spanberger Backs Defunding Police”

• Senators Kaine, Murkowski, Sinema and Collins Introduce “Reproductive Freedom For All Act” to Codify Roe v Wade, Protect Contraception Access

• Extremist/Insurrectionist Rep. Bob Good (R-VA05) Goes “full Stalinist,” Cosponsors House Resolution Condemning “CRT” as (Supposedly) Having “Marxist roots” and “pos[ing] a significant threat to the United States Republic”

• Every Holler, Every Hill, Every Vote: Canvassing in Rural Virginia to Hold Congress

• Wednesday Is the Last Day to Express Your Opposition to the Proposed VA Board of Education Policy That Would Notify Parents of Any “Sexually Explicit” Materials Assigned in Their Child’s Class