by Kerry Dougherty

Remember last summer’s gubernatorial campaign? All of candidate Abigail Spanberger’s happy talk about affordability, moderation and working across the aisle?

Congratulations, voters. You got played.

If there was any lingering hope that the Democrat majority in Richmond would wield their power judiciously that was laid to rest this week. It’s clear now that Virginians elected a far-left radical as governor and filled the General Assembly with left-wing extremists.

What could possibly go wrong?

Oh, the Trojan horse governor may make a show of vetoing a bill or two in order to position herself as a moderate when she seeks national office (you’ve been warned) but by turning Virginia into a sanctuary state with the stroke of a pen on Inauguration Day, she was immediately unmasked.

In one week the new governor and her friends have turned Virginia into a woke DEI-worshipping, Marxist sanctuary state. They’ve proposed massive tax increases, gun restrictions, revolving doors on prisons and abolishing mandatory minimum sentences for serious criminals from kiddie porn peddlers to rapists. They want to make it easy to sue law enforcement officers and hard to lock up criminals. Oh, they also want boys competing in girl’s sports and they have several bills aimed at making voter fraud easier to commit. Continue reading.