Finding inspiration in all the wrong places
by Gordon C. Morse
Virginia Senate Democrats – the leadership, primarily – have taken a wrecking crew mentality to higher education and exposed themselves to condemnation for doing the very things they passionately denounce others for doing.
In this instance, on Thursday afternoon, the majority Democrats serving on the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee made quick work of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent board appointments to George Mason University, the University of Virginia and Virginia Military Institute.
Figuratively speaking, the Democrats balled up the list of names and contemptuously threw it out the window. It was meant to be preemptive and performative, a crude demonstration of their presumed power to act independently of the General Assembly as a whole and lay waste to Younkin’s choices.
This was Round Two. The Senate P&E Committee did this previously in June and in similarly obnoxious fashion. That little dance ushered in litigation and the matter now sits before the Virginia Supreme Court.
Republican committee members asked, why do this now? What was the point?
But the Democrats were not in a talkative mood and likely would have preferred a darkened space to do their work, removed and detached, where they could punch, run and suffer no bother.
They were, however, good enough to distribute a copy of the letter they’d had dashed off to Gov. Youngkin.
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