Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (10/17/21)

With Just Over 2 Weeks to Go, McAuliffe Barnstorms State with Jill Biden, Stacey Abrams; "Glenn Youngkin’s Embrace of Donald Trump and His Dangerous Insurrectionist Rally"

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• Photos: With 16 Days Until Election Day 2021, Virginia Dems Campaign Across the Commonwealth

• Video: On “The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart” (Where Glenn Youngkin REFUSES to Appear), Terry McAuliffe Mocks Youngkin For Calling Pledge of Allegiance to Flag Used on 1/6 “Weird” - As Opposed to “Disgraceful,” “Despicable,” “Unpatriotic,” “UnAmerican,” etc.

• DNC Blankets Mar-a-Lago with Ads to Ask One Question: “Why Won’t Glenn Youngkin Let Trump Campaign in Virginia?”

• Climate Solutions Must Provide Environmental Justice For Communities Most Harmed By Fossil Fuels

• After Unhinged Extremist Rep. Bob Good (R-VA05) “Blasts all colleges except Christian ones,” “urges high school students to rebel against required mask wearing,” former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05) Says, “I might need to reengage”

• DLCC: Republicans Set the Stage to Undermine Free and Fair Elections in Virginia

• Mid-October Virginia Campaign Finance Reports Now Available; McAuliffe, Ayala and Herring All Have Significantly More Cash on Hand Than Their Republican Opponents

• Glenn Youngkin’s Very, Very Bad Week In Review

• Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn Announces Record-Breaking Third Quarter Fundraising

• Virginia Democratic Party Does Redistricting Commission’s Job and Releases Fair, Equitable Congressional Map

• Conspiracy Theorist Candidate Jarome Bell Closes in on Jen Kiggans in VA-02 After Trump Lays Down Big Lie Litmus Test

• Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Wonders Whether Glenn Youngkin Would Send Virginia National Guard Troops to Stop an Insurrection, or Would He “be glad…?”

• Just When You Thought the VA Redistricting Commission Fiasco Couldn’t Get Even Worse, It Looks Like It Is Doing Just That

• Flip-[Or-Hold]-A-District Friday: Volume XIV (Paul Siker, Del. Lamont Bagby, Greg Eaton, Del. Delores McQuinn)

• Terry McAuliffe Raises $12.6 Million in September, $45 Million for Cycle to Date; Continues to Build Unmatched Enthusiastic Grassoots Army of 100,000+ donors

• Video: Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA08), Bobby Scott (D-VA03) Lay Out Progress, Path to Universal Health Care Coverage

• Friday (10/15) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations Near Highest Level Since Mid February...

• Stafford County School Board Candidate Marc Broklawski Rips Right-Wing Opponent’s “hate-filled Facebook posts”...

• Fox News Poll of Virginia: McAuliffe Up 5 Pts. (51%-46%) Among Likely Voters, 11 Pts (52%-41%) Among Registered Voters (Up From +4 Pts. in Fox’s Late-September Poll)

• Planned Parenthood, Elected Officials Highlight Reproductive Rights At Stake in Virginia Election

• Video: DNC Chair – Trump Acolyte Glenn Youngkin Doubles Down On Extreme Agenda

• Video: Terry for Virginia Releases New TV Ad “The Call,” on Glenn Youngkin’s Embrace of Donald Trump and His Dangerous Insurrectionist Rally

• DPVA Calls on ALL Republican House of Delegates Candidates to Answer: Did They Attend Trump-Youngkin Insurrection Rally?

• Loudoun Chair Phyllis Randall on “alleged incidents of sexual assault [in] Loudoun County Public Schools”: “Every parent needs to know their children are not at risk when they drop them off at school”

• VoteVets Endorses Terry McAuliffe for Governor; Alexander Vindman Says “As the son of an Army veteran and the dad of a Marine, Terry McAuliffe knows what it means to be in a military family”

• Virginia Campaigns Shift to Mobilization in Final Stretch

• Jennifer Carroll Foy’s “Virginia For Everyone” Announces New Initiative to Hold Democratic Majority in House of Delegates, Support Democrats Up and Down the Ticket

• “[Wednesday Night’s] Trump rally for Glenn Youngkin celebrating the insurrection against our country was unconscionable…”

• DPVA Statement on Donald Trump’s Enthusiastic Support for Glenn Youngkin

• NEW: Top Youngkin Surrogate Amanda Chase Peddles Trumpian Election Conspiracies On Glenn Youngkin’s Behalf

• Progress Virginia: “Hypocrite Glenn Youngkin Speaks Out Against, and then Profits From Over Policing”

• What If They Held a Virginia AG Debate But Nobody Knew It Was Taking Place…

• House of Delegates Candidate’s First Amendment Rights Trampled on at Chesapeake School Board Meeting

• CBS Poll of Virginia: McAuliffe Up 50%-47% Among “Likely Voters”; McAuliffe Up 53%-45% In “Higher Turnout” Scenario

• NEW: PolitiFact Blasts Glenn Youngkin with “Pants on Fire” for Unhinged Right Wing Conspiracy Theories

• Terry for Virginia Releases New TV Ad, “Our Rights,” on Glenn Youngkin’s Far Right Agenda to Ban Abortion in Virginia

• NEW TV Ad: Terry for Virginia and Everytown Release New Ad Featuring Newport News Sheriff Gabe Morgan

• Video: On “Morning Joe,” Terry McAuliffe Laid Out The Stakes of This Election, While Glenn Youngkin Continues to Hide

• In Addition to Stacey Abrams and First Lady Jill Biden, Former President Obama Coming to Campaign for Terry McAuliffe!

• Video: New Lincoln Project Ad Rips Glenn Youngkin For Failing to Condemn Anti-Semitic Attacks by VA GOP Candidates…

• Del. Mark Levine, Who Strongly Opposed the VA Redistricting Amendment: “Sadly, it appears everything I predicted is coming to pass”

• ICYMI: Photos from Human Rights Campaign’s VA Day of Action with Delegate Roem, Delegate Cole and VA’s Next Lt. Governor Ayala

• VA GOP House of Delegates Candidate Asks, “Do you think the sea level would lower, if we just took all the boats out of the water?”

• Video: After Disintegrating on Friday, VA Redistricting Commission Meeting This Morning Ended in a GOP Delegate’s Question About Whether Co-Chair Greta Harris (D) Is Still a Member, Followed By a Looong “Airing of Grievances”/Group Therapy Session

• Terry for Virginia Releases New Digital Ad “Agenda” Highlighting Glenn Youngkin and Donald Trump’s Shared Election Conspiracy Agenda

• Glenn Youngkin’s Running Mate and Amanda Chase to Rally Together With Steve Bannon and QAnon Conspiracy Theorists This Week

• Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance (VTCA) PAC Endorses Terry McAuliffe for Governor

Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (10/10/21)

Where Things Stand in Governor's Race with 23 Days to Go; WaPo Virginia Coverage Completely Jumps the Shark; VA Redistricting Commission on Verge of Failure

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• Video: After Glenn Youngkin Blows Off CNN’s “State of the Union,” Host Dana Bash Thanks Terry McAuliffe For “Taking Tough Questions,” Says Glenn Youngkin Was Invited But “Declined”

• NEW TV AD: Terry for Virginia Releases “Everybody” on Terry’s Plans to Build A Stronger Economy and Lift Up All Virginians

• With 23 Days Until VA Election Day 2021, Here’s Where Things Stand in Polling, PredictIt and Early Voting

• Three Front-Page WaPo Stories on the VA Governor’s Race…and They All SUCK (Hell, They Even Describe Youngkin as a “6 Foot 5 Mystery Date” - WTF???)

• DLCC: Republicans Will Gut Virginia’s Economy, Funding for Public Education and Public Safety

• Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “Here’s how I know COVID is getting better. I did not have COVID listed as an agenda item when we met earlier this week.”

• Look What You Made Us Do: Glenn Youngkin’s Dismal Week in Review

• The Scorpion and the Frog (Or, the Virginia Redistricting Commission)

• TODAY: Insurrectionist Amanda Chase to Promote Anti-Abortion Republicans in Virginia

• [UPDATED: Commission Collapses] We Hate to Say “We Told You So,” But…the VA Redistricting Commission Appears on the Verge of Complete Collapse

• “I attended a very disturbing Fairfax County School Board meeting last night”

• VIDEO: Former Va. House Democratic Leader David J. Toscano and Virginia Advocates Call for Congress to Pass President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda

• Flip-[Or-Hold]-A-District Friday: Volume XIII (Mel Cornelisse, Dr. Doug Ward, Sam Soghor, Chance Trevillian)

• NEW TV AD:  Terry for Virginia Releases New TV Ad “Starving Schools” on Glenn Youngkin’s Trumpian Plan to Slash Education Funding & Destroy Public Schools

• Rep. Gerry Connolly Now Has Evidence “Donald Trump hid debts, concealed millions in losses, and received millions more from foreign governments at Trump Hotel”

• Progress Virginia: Failure to Disclose Vaccination Status Should Disqualify Winsome Sears From Becoming Lieutenant Governor

• New Wason Center Virginia Poll: Terry McAuliffe Up 4 pts (49%-45%), Hala Ayala Up 4 pts (48%-44%), Mark Herring Up 6 pts (49%-43%)

• Friday (10/8) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations Near Highest Level Since Mid-February...

• Video: Glenn Youngkin Laughs Uncomfortably at Climate Question, Says “I don’t know what’s responsible for climate change.” This Is 100% Disqualifying!

• Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says Glenn Youngkin’s Embrace of Trump’s “Big Lie” Is “Extraordinarily Dangerous,” the Kind of Thing That Happens in Russia and Communist China

• BREAKING: Glenn Youngkin’s Running Mate Refuses to Answer About Vaccination Status to CNN

• FWIW Virginia on “McAuliffe’s October Surprise”: “Small ad buy of fun ads featuring Taylor Swift” “draw[s] attention to Glenn Youngkin’s career as a vulture capitalist”

• Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Launches $500,000 Effort to Protect and Expand Gun Sense Majority in VA House of Delegates, Unveils New Polling Showing Gun Safety Top Issue for Voters

• Video: On MSNBC, Stacey Abrams Says Glenn Youngkin Is “Speaking of an Overturning,” “Willfully Participating in the Subversion of Our Democracy”

• VA Planned Parenthood: “Glenn Youngkin Amplifies Support From Anti-Abortion Extremists,” Spent Tuesday Evening at Event with Trump HHS Appointee Whose Goal Is “Post-Roe Nation”

• AG Mark Herring Helps Block Texas Abortion Ban

• Would Conservative Cato Institute Mouthpiece Be Best Advocate for Falls Church City Kids?

• NEW DIGITAL AD: Terry for Virginia Releases New Digital Ad “Audit” Highlighting Glenn Youngkin’s Continued Support of Donald Trump’s Dangerous Election Conspiracy Theories

• DLCC: Insurrectionist VA Republican House Candidate Warns of Coming “Civil War”

• Sen. Warner, Sen. Kaine Join Sen. Leahy in Introducing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

• Mountain Valley Pipeline Sends Highly Misleading, Disingenuous Letter to Federal, State Authorities Attempting to Deny the Major, Adverse Impact Its Dirty, Fracked-Gas Pipeline Boondoggle Would Cause

• *WAY* Too Close For Comfort: New Poll Has Terry McAuliffe Up Just 1 Point (48.7%-47.9%), Mark Herring Up Just 2 Points (45.5%-43.7%)

• How Is This Appalling, Racist Harassment in Virginia Beach NOT Considered a Hate Crime?

• Paid Leave for the US (PL+US) Action Endorses McAuliffe, Ayala, Herring in Virginia for Support of Paid Leave

• Jason Miyares Silent as His Endorser and Ally, Ken Cuccinelli, Doubles Down on Anti-LGBTQ Positions in Washington Times Article

• Glenn Youngkin Campaigned with Far-Right Candidate Who Wrote About the “coming Civil War,” Asked, “Can we live with our conscience when we actually take human life?”

• Terry McAuliffe Releases New Plan to Address Barriers Facing Women in the Workforce

• New TV/Radio Ad: Del. Hala Ayala, Everytown Announce New $200,000+ Campaign on Gun Violence Prevention

• Courtesy of Political Data Gurus Dave Wasserman and Ryan Brune, Here Are Some Numbers to Watch on Virginia Election Night 2021

• Video: Top Youngkin Surrogate Speculates About “pervasive infiltration by Communist China” in the VA General Assembly

• Protect Our Water; Tell the State Water Control Board to Deny Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Clean Water Act Section 401 Application

• On Right-Wing Radio, Glenn Youngkin Says He Will “Stand Up” for the Right of Unvaccinated Teachers to Infect Students

• After Years of Right-Wing Del. Kirk Cox, VA66 Deserves and Needs a Candidate Like Katie Sponsler to Represent Them the Way They Should Be…in Richmond

• DLCC Calls on Candidates, VA GOP, RSLC to Condemn Series of Racist and Anti-Semitic Mailers in VA Legislative Races

• Gov. Northam Announces $714m Manufacturing Investment in Wythe County; Expected to Create 2,500 New Jobs - “the largest job creation for Southwest Virginia in a generation”

• Ahead of the Supreme Court Hearing on Roe v. Wade, Glenn Youngkin Spent the Weekend with Top Allies Amanda Chase and the Family Foundation

• In Stark Contrast to Glenn Youngkin and the Statewide GOP Ticket’s Demagoguery and Race Baiting, Former LG Bill Bolling (R) Engages Seriously, In Good Faith, on “Critical Race Theory”

Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (10/3/21)

Multiple VA GOP candidates send out "grotesque" racist, anti-Semitic mailers; Youngkin rallies with hard-line anti-LGBTQ, anti-reproductive-freedom group; Fox poll has McAuliffe 4 points ahead

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• “This is grotesque white supremacy. This is the GOP today – literally publishing mailers of Black people hanging in an attempt to get votes”

• With Just Over a Month Until 11/2, Glenn Youngkin Rallied Last Night with Far-Right Group That’s Virulently Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Reproductive Freedom, Anti-Marijuana Legalization; Thinks Anti-Racist Curriculum Is “Marxist”; etc.

• Democratic Candidate for VA Beach Treasurer: Incumbent Has Caused People to Lose Their Homes Due to Tax Liens That Could Have Been Prevented

• VA Del. Alex Askew Denounces “Overtly Racist” GOP Mailers Depicting Him “Bound and Hanging By Taught Rope” and “That Showed His Likeness Burning”

• As VA Redistricting Commission Comes Down the Home Stretch, Del. Marcus Simon Vows, the “General Assembly isn’t going to pass maps rated an F by independent gerrymandering experts”

• Virginia Early Voting As of 10/1: “Blue” Areas Like VA08/NoVA Leading, “Red” Areas Like VA09/SWVA Trailing Well Behind

• Virginia ER Nurse Kellen Squire at 18 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: “I’m Tired…But I Can’t Quit”

• Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “Although the US exceeded 700,000 Deaths This Week, new cases have fallen 25% over the last 2 weeks”

• Glenn Youngkin’s Week in Review: Election Conspiracies, Anti-Vaccine Activities, and More Support for Anti-Semitic Attacks

• Del. Dan Helmer Raises $100,000 in 24 Hours After WaPo Releases Op-Ed Denouncing “Blatant” Anti-Semitic Flyer By Helmer’s GOP Opponent

• VA House Democratic Caucus Stands Behind Virginia Speaker Amid Report of Potential Violence by Neo-Nazis

• Governor Northam Leads Chesapeake Executive Council in Signing Climate Directive

• Flip-[And-Hold]-A-District Friday: Volume XII (Del. Martha Mugler, Del. Karrie Delaney, Emily Scott, Deetzie Bayliss)

• The VA Redistricting Commission “is getting nowhere at a really fast rate…This was a 100% inevitable outcome the minute a partisan commission was created”

• Friday (10/1) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations (1,898) Near Highest Near Mid February; 10-Day New Cases (+29,853) Near Highest Since Mid February

• “‘Big Setback for the Biden Agenda?’ Really? Really? A day? A couple of days? The media is getting this story 100% wrong”

• Fox “News” Poll of Virginia Has Terry McAuliffe Up 4 Points (48%-44%) Over Glenn Youngkin; Enthusiasm Seems About Equal Among Supporters of Each Candidate

• Video: Community Organizations Call Out Virginia Redistricting Commission for Ignoring Concerns of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities While Drawing Maps

• Sen. Mark Warner, Tim Kaine Comment on Passage of Resolution to Keep Government Funded Temporarily

• DCCC: Kevin McCarthy Silent as GOP Congressional Candidate Jarome Bell Calls to “Execute” Americans Over 2020 Election Results

• Two Weeks Until Virginia AG Debate; Does Jason Miyares Stand With Donald Trump Asking Arizona’s Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich to Investigate the 2020 Election?

• Glenn Youngkin’s “Predatory Delay” Truthiness (aka, LIES) on Climate; Also, Chuck Todd Exemplifies Dismal Media Framing of the Climate Crisis

• FWIW Virginia: With 33 Days Until 11/2, “Breaking down digital ad spending from #VAGov + delegate races”

• Video: Governor Ralph Northam Led Virtual Press Conference on Glenn Youngkin’s Dangerous Anti-Vaccine Agenda 

• DLCC Releases Memo Outlining VA Republicans’ Opposition to Masks and Vaccination Efforts

• Jason Miyares Endorsed by Trump Ally and “Big Lie” Supporter Mike Pompeo

• Video: Climate Activists Thrown Out of Gubernatorial Debate. Episode Highlights Growing Political Need to Discuss Mountain Valley Pipeline and Fossil Fuels in Virginia

• Sen. Warner Introduces “Stop STUPIDITY Act” to Prevent Future Government Shutdowns

• VA Redistricting Commission Meets at 8am to Discuss Proposed House of Delegates Maps

• Roanoke College Poll Has McAuliffe +7, Ayala +5, Herring +10, But…Take This One with a Large Grain/Pillar of Salt

• Video: Tonight’s Second/Final VA GOV Debate Starts at 7pm

• New Survey of Virginia Voters Favor “Build Back Better” by 59%-36% Margin

• Three Questions for Gun Lobby Ally Glenn Youngkin Ahead of Tonight’s Gubernatorial Debate

• JUST THE FACTS:  Child Tax Credit Helping Families of 1.6 Million Virginia Children

• Video: Terry for Virginia Releases New Digital Ad “Kids” Calling Out Glenn Youngkin’s Dangerous Anti-Vaccine Agenda That Would Put Virginia’s Children at Risk

• Video: Youngkin Strongly Suggests He’d Remove Vaccine Mandate For State Employees on Day #1; Youngkin Campaign Absurdly Calls Vaccine Mandates “Racist”

• “Part-time legislating leaves our public servants outgunned by the full-time lobbyists who have the time and resources to do this work year-round”

• DLCC: When Will Jen Kiggans Condemn Jarome Bell’s Unhinged Viral Call to “Execute” Americans Over Result of 2020 Election?

• Another Day, Another Virginia Republican Mailer Appears to Use Anti-Semitic Tropes Against a Jewish Delegate (Dan Helmer in this case)

• Monmouth Poll of #VAGOV Race: Terry McAuliffe Up Between 3 and 7 Points Over Glenn Youngkin, with 36 Days Until 11/2

• Penn East Pipeline Canceled After New Jersey Denies Clean Water Act Permit; Virginia Should Do the Same with Mountain Valley Pipeline

• Virginia Launches Expanded Train Service from Downtown Richmond to Washington, D.C., on to New York and Boston

Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (9/26/21)

Early Voting Stats With 37 Days To Go; Cook Political Report Shifts VA Governor’s Race to “Toss Up”; COVID Response Frames the Gubernatorial Campaign

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• Video: 2020 VA-07 GOP Congressional Nominee Nick Freitas Falsely Claimed “It’s Definitely More Difficult” For Women to Get Pregnant From Rape

• Sen. Mark Warner On “Irresponsible” “Gamesmanship” Over Debt Ceiling: “Don’t say we’re going to suddenly, after the fact, say we’re not going to pay our bills. That’s not what a responsible country does.”

• Virginia Keeps Getting Bluer and More Diverse, But You’d Never Know It From These Godawful New Maps by the Virginia Redistricting Commission’s Partisan Map Drawers

• With 37 Days Until Virginia 2021 Election Day, Early Voting Seems Much Slower Than Last Year; “Blue” CDs Waaay Ahead in Mail Ballot Requests; “Red” and “Blue” CDs Pretty Close in Early/In-Person Voting

• Video: Debate Between Del. Joshua Cole (D-HD28) and His Right-Wing Republican Opponent Shows *Drastic* Contrast, Highlights High Stakes of This Election!

• Loudoun Judge Who Outrageously Jailed Domestic Violence Survivor Is a Former Local GOP Chair, Was Pushed By Far-Right Republicans (Dick Black, Mark Obenshain, Dave LaRock, etc.) In Process That Wasn’t Open or Fair

• Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “Holy cow I cannot believe I am an ER doctor in the middle of a 1 in a 100 year pandemic”

• Video: Terry for Virginia Releases Two New TV Ads Exposing Glenn Youngkin’s Dangerous Wall Street Record

• Video: Sen. Kaine Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, Says “We’ve Got No Excuse” Not to Pass Immigration Reform, Despite Parliamentarian’s Ruling

• Video: Fairfax Supervisors James Walkinshaw, Dalia Palchik, John Foust Rip Trump EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler For Opposing 5-Cent Plastic Bag Tax

• Flip-[Or-Hold-]A-District Friday: Volume XI (Del. Clint Jenkins, Scott Flax, Kecia Evans, Mark Downey, Caitlin Coakley, Sara Ratcliffe)

• Cook Political Report Shifts VA Governor’s Race to “Toss Up”; With Early Voting Off To Sluggish Start, It’s Time For Democrats to Fire Up a Serious Sense of Urgency…and GO VOTE!

• Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Steals Citizen Board Authority, Falsely Claims Board Made a Preliminary Decision to Issue Mountain Valley Pipeline Permit

• Friday (9/24) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations (2,106) Near Highest Level Since Mid February…

• FWIW Virginia: COVID Response Frames the Gubernatorial Campaign

• BREAKING: Donald Trump Reminds Virginians That Glenn Youngkin is His Hand-Picked Candidate

• Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says Republicans Being Extremely Irresponsible on Debt Ceiling; Says This “Rubik’s Cube on Steroids” Has To Be Resolved “literally in the coming days”

• NEW TV AD: Terry for Virginia Releases New TV Ad “Good Jobs” Highlighting Terry McAuliffe’s Record of Bringing Good-Paying Jobs to Virginia and His Plans To Build a Stronger Economy

• Video: AG Mark Herring Releases First TV Ad of General Election; “As Attorney General, I’ve worked to keep Virginia families safe”

• Governor Northam Announces All Virginia School Divisions Open for Full In-Person Instruction

• VIDEO: Virginia Redistricting Commission Debates – Emotionally, Sometimes Heatedly – To What Extent, How Exactly Race Should Be Considered in Drawing New Districts

• WashPost-Schar School Poll: “7 in 10 registered voters support Virginia’s statewide mask mandate for teachers, staff and students in school buildings”

• 50+ Medical Professionals from Across Virginia Endorse Terry McAuliffe for Governor, Citing Terry’s Leadership on COVID-19 Vaccines & Recovery

• Advocates to Gather at Loudoun County Courthouse to Protest Judge James Fisher’s Jailing of a Domestic Violence Survivor; Incident Called “Misogynistic and Patriarchal”

• Virginia Supreme Court Denies Petition to Challenge VA’s Law Ending Prison Gerrymandering

• It’s Time For Congress To Hold Tech Monopolies Like Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple Accountable For Their Actions

• Terry McAuliffe Calls on Child Care Providers to Require Employees to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines To Keep Virginia Children Safe & Economy Strong

• VA-02 Race to the Far Right Continues as Jarome Bell Gets Twitter Suspension for Spreading COVID Misinformation, Jen Kiggans Opposes Vaccine Mandates

• Video: In Wake of TX’s Abortion Ruling, AG Mark Herring Holds Press Conference on Defending Abortion Rights

• Virginians Reminded of Glenn Youngkin’s Complete Allegiance to Donald Trump…Even as He Nervously Dances Around It

• Is Virginia 2021 Starting to “Rhyme” with the Disastrous 2009 Virginia Governor’s Election? According to Bob Holsworth, It All Comes Down to “Who’s Ticked Off Now”

• Video: Stafford County Board of Supervisors Passes “Resolution Denouncing the 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory…Student Pronoun Selection” in the Stafford County Public Schools

• NEW TV Ad: Terry for Virginia and Everytown Release New Ad Featuring Gun Violence Survivor Lisette Johnson

• Dominion Overcharged Virginia Customers By Over $1 Billion, According To State Regulators 

• Gabby Giffords Rallies Support for Virginia House Democrats in Manassas

• Two New Virginia Election Polls – by Public Policy Polling and Kellyanne Conway – Show McAuliffe Up By 3, 4 Points; Ayala and Herring Way Up

• AG Mark Herring Backs Commonsense Approach to Concealed Carry Laws

• Early Voting Off to a Very Slow Start So Far in Virginia; UVA Prof. Larry Sabato Says, “This is falling off a cliff; I wonder how good Dems’ GOTV is this year”

• New Digital Ad: Terry For Virginia Releases New Digital Ad “Disqualifying” Calling Out Glenn Youngkin’s Anti-Vaxx Rhetoric

• Video: On CNN, Terry McAuliffe Calls Out Glenn Youngkin’s Far-Right Priorities For Virginia

• DPVA and Virginia Doctor Hold Press Call on the Dangers of Glenn Youngkin’s Reckless Anti-COVID Safety Agenda

• Mark Herring Joins 24 State AGs Urging US Supreme Court Not to Overturn Roe v Wade

• New VCU Poll Has McAuliffe, Ayala, Herring Ahead, But Take This One With a HUGE Grain/Pillar of Salt

• Virginia Republicans Hide Their Extreme Anti-Abortion Views from Voters While Raking in Endorsements

• Three Days After Viciously Anti-Semitic, Misogynistic Tweet By VA GOP House of Delegates Candidate, “Not a Peep” From Glenn Youngkin, etc.

Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (9/19/21)

With 44 Days to Go, Where Does Virginia’s Gubernatorial Election Stand Right Now?; Youngkin Won’t Require COVID-19 Vaccines For Nurses Treating Immunocompromised Cancer Patients

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• With 44 Days to Go, Where Does Virginia’s Gubernatorial Election Stand Right Now? For Instance, Is Glenn Youngkin “Trumpy” Enough to Really Rile Up Democratic “Base” Voters, as Happened in California with Larry Elder?

• It’s Undebatable That a Vote for McAuliffe is a Vote to Keep Progress Moving Forward in Virginia

• Chaz Nuttycombe Analyzes Newly Released VA Redistricting Commission Maps: “There are very few highlights about these maps. It’s like they started off mainly reasonable in Northern Virginia and went, ‘Hey, let’s make the rest of the state suck.’”

• It’s Been A Bad Week For Glenn Youngkin

• “Absolutely grotesque antisemitism on display from yet another @GlennYoungkin-aligned Virginia Republican — just one day after Yom Kippur”

• Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “One patient didn’t want the vaccine in her body but then was fine getting monoclonal antibodies infused”

• Glenn Youngkin Campaigns with Leading Virginia Anti-Vaxxer, “Big Lie” Proponent Who Was Censured by State Senate After She Was at 1/6/21 Pro-Trump Rally, Said “I reject the notion that there is racism,” etc.

• WaPo-Schar School Virginia Poll: Among Registered Voters, McAuliffe Up 6 Pts. (49%-43%); Among “Likely Voters,” McAuliffe Up 3 Points (50%-47%)

• As Early Voting in Virginia Begins, A Reminder of What’s at Stake

• NEW TV AD: Terry For Virginia Releases New TV Ad “Doctor” Featuring Dr. Joseph Sakran Calling Out Glenn Youngkin’s Dangerous COVID-19 Agenda

• Flip-[And-Hold-]A-District Friday: Volume X (Del. Jay Jones, Del. Ken Plum, Jasmine Gore, Trudy Berry, Stan Scott, Derek Kitts)

• Virginia Unemployment Drops Yet Again, to Just 4.0%; Gov. Northam Says “I’m proud of our roaring economic growth, and I look forward to seeing these trends continue”

• Sierra Club Virginia Chapter Endorses Hala Ayala for Lieutenant Governor; Anti-Environment Republican Winsome Sears Doesn’t Even Respond to Questionnaire

• KEY MOMENT: Glenn Youngkin Won’t Require COVID-19 Vaccines For Nurses Treating Immunocompromised Cancer Patients 

• Friday (9/17) Virginia Data on COVID-19: With Delta Now Dominant, Hospitalizations (2,174) Near Highest Level Since Mid February; 10-Day New Cases (+38,280) Near Highest Since Early February

• Video, Live Blog: Tonight’s (First) Virginia Gubernatorial Debate Between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin

• WaPo Strongly Endorses “Shrewd, Pragmatic and Tireless” Terry McAuliffe for Governor, Says Electing Glenn Youngkin Would Be a “Grave Error”

• Voting Kicks Off in Virginia: Breaking Down How Campaigns Are Pushing Voters To Vote by Mail

• With Debate Tonight and Early Voting Starting Tomorrow, New Emerson College Poll Has Terry McAuliffe Up 4 Points, Mark Herring Up 6 Points

• Everytown for Gun Safety Pledges to Spend Upwards of $1.8 Million In Support of VA Democrats in 2021 Election

• Trumpist VA Sen. Amanda Chase (R) Says Glenn Youngkin Shouldn’t Smile or Shake Terry McAuliffe’s Hand, Should Treat Governor’s Race as “War” Against “Marxist Take Over”

• With Early Voting Starting This Friday, July 1-August 31 Virginia Fundraising Numbers Coming In…

• NEW TV AD:  Terry for Virginia Releases New TV Ad “All Talk” Showing the Truth About Glenn Youngkin’s Failed Wall Street Record

• THREE Independent Reports Show Dangerous Effects Of Glenn Youngkin’s Economic Plan – Would Cost Virginia Millions of Jobs, Decimate Funding for Education and Public Safety

• AG Mark Herring Continues Fight Against Texas Abortion Ban, Joins 23 Other AGs Filing “amicus brief supporting the DOJ’s challenge to Texas’ unconstitutional law banning abortions after six weeks”

• Video: VHHA Launches Statewide Outreach Campaign Aimed at Vaccine Hesitant Audiences Amid a More Than 1,000% Surge in COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations

• Remarks by VP Kamala Harris at a Fundraiser for McAuliffe Campaign Last Night: “What happens here in Virginia is…a bellwether for what will happen in the rest of the country”

• Terry McAuliffe Statement Celebrating Beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month/Declaración de Terry McAuliffe Celebrando el Comienzo del Mes de la Herencia Hispana

• DLCC and Affiliates Announce $2.3 Million Investment in Virginia

• New Study Finds Glenn Youngkin’s Economic Plan Would Cost 2.5 Million Jobs, Cut Personal Income by More Than $225 Billion Over Next 10 Years

• Sen. Tim Kaine Joins Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Colleagues in Introducing Legislation to Protect Freedom to Vote, Strengthen Our Democracy

• Virginia Professional Fire Fighters Endorse AG Mark Herring For Reelection

• Terry McAuliffe Releases “Virginia Is For Vaccine Lovers” Campaign to Get Virginians Vaccinated, Rebuild Stronger Economy

• Sen. Tim Kaine, Rep. Gerry Connolly Urge Senate to Pass “Freedom to Vote Act”: “The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy - we must protect it”

• Glenn Youngkin Lies and Demagogues Yet Again, This Time on Supposedly “Skyrocketing” Gasoline Prices, Which Are…Uh, Actually *DOWN* a Penny From a Month Ago, and About Average Historically

• In Newport News, Gov. Northam Ceremonially Signs Voting Rights Act of Virginia

• August 2021 Revenue Report Finds Virginia General Fund Revenue Collections Up 18.9% From the Previous Year and 5.2% Fiscal-Year-to-Date

• McAuliffe Welcomes Salesforce Employees to Relocate from Texas to Virginia Following Draconian Texas Abortion Ban

• With Early Voting Beginning on Friday, Democratic Statewide Ticket Has “built the most robust coordinated campaign in Virginia history”