Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (6/8/25)

9 Days Until the 6/17 primares - have you voted yet?; VA11 Dems set "firehouse primary" dates (caucus 6/28), rules; Sen. Warner Says the More the “big ugly bill gets exposed, the uglier it becomes”

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• After Winsome Earle-Sears Proposes Ending Car Tax, Fmr. VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a Trump-Supporting Republican, Says This Is “nothing more than a cheap political ploy”

• Revisiting David Rothkopf’s Prescient Warning One Year Later: With 9 Days Until the June 17th VA Dem LG & AG Primaries, Turnout Is Super-Low and People STILL Seem Mostly Tuned Out - Lots of “Blank Stares” If You Mention the Election…

• Photos: Henrico Dems Protest Rep. Rob “Robs the Poor” Wittman (R-VA01), Calling Out His Lies, Cowardice, Failure to Show Up, Avoiding His Constituents, etc, etc.

• VA11 Democratic Committee Issues “Call to Caucus & Candidate Filing Forms”: Early Voting on 6/26; Caucus on 6/28; Filing Fee of $6,990; 150 Signatures Required (Deadline: 6/18)

• Ivy Main: “The war on woke…energy?” Meanwhile, “Unless we tell data centers to go elsewhere, we need more generation, and fast”

• Loudoun4All Statement- Virginia Republicans Exploit Loudoun Children in Renewed Anti-Trans Election-Year Crusade

• Blue Virginia Interview: VA11 Dem Candidate Leo Martinez Says “I already had to leave from one country, see one democracy destroyed; I can’t let that happen and just watch it from the living room in my house”

• TONIGHT: Sears to Deliver Commencement Address at School Where Homosexuality Is “Prohibited” and Declared “Sinful”

• Abigail Spanberger Announces Plan to Lower Virginians’ Housing Costs, Continues Focus on Making Virginia More Affordable

• One Day Ahead of the 60th Anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, Remember Winsome Earle-Sears Has an Extreme Record Attacking Reproductive Rights

• With 11 Days to Go Until the 6/17 VA Dem Primary, the AG Candidates (Jay Jones and Shannon Taylor) Are Up with Dueling Ads

• Video: Six of the VA11 Dem Candidates Spoke for About 1 Minute Each at the Fairfax City Dems Meeting Last Night

• Fmr. VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) on the Trump-Musk “Bromance” Ending: “Musk should know that Trump does not accept criticism well, and he will take the knees out from under anyone who publicly questions him”

• Blue Virginia Interview: VA11 Dem Candidate Amy Roma Says She’s Running Because “Our country is absolutely being torn apart,” She “knows how to get things done,” and “career politicians are struggling to figure out how to compete against something like Trump”

• New Report by The Commonwealth Institute Summarizes the Severe Harm of the House Reconciliation Bill for Virginia

• Abigail Spanberger: “Congressional Republicans Are Working to Undo the Progress We’ve Made and Take Away Healthcare From Virginia Families

• Tomorrow: Winsome Earle-Sears to Headline Event Alongside Far-Right-Extremist (climate denier, anti-reproductive-freedom, “described homosexuality as Satan’s work”; denied that Joe Biden was the legitimate president; etc.)

• Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says the More the “big ugly bill gets exposed, the uglier it becomes”; “if interest rates go up simply 1% more…this $2.4 trillion deficit more than triples”

• Virginia LGBTQ+ Caucus Celebrates Pride 2025 as Both “a celebration” and “an ongoing protest against efforts to criminalize and delegitimize the lives and identities of LGBGT+ individuals”

• “Kiggans and Wittman voted to gut clean energy tax credits that are currently bringing $18.2 billion in investment and almost 11,000 jobs to Virginia”

• NEW: Earle-Sears Campaign Ejects Media from Falls Church Event

• In Blue Virginia Interview, LG Candidate Levar Stoney Says “to get the national party out of a funk, we need to win [in Virginia]…in an impressive way and I think we will”

• Video: At Townhall Meeting, Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA04) Says “We have the power to decide is that man in the White House going to end our republic or not?”

• Video: Elected, Reproductive Rights Leaders Call Out Winsome Earle-Sears for Unearthed Comments Attacking Reproductive Rights

• BREAKING: Gov. Glenn Youngkin Sets Date (9/9/25) for Special Election in VA11

• FACT CHECK: Virginia Republican Delegates Carrie Coyner and Kim Taylor Claim to Support Contraception—Their Voting History Says…That’s a Lie

• Was This Morning’s Politico Article About the 2025 Virginia Governor’s Race Mostly “Concern Trolling” or Did It Make Valid Points?

• Video, Highlights From Stella Pekarsky’s VA11 Democratic Campaign Kickoff; Vows to “stand up and be loud” Against Trump’s Assault on Our Democracy, Federal Workers, the Environment, etc.