The General Assembly Punts
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Thank you Mr. Dick. That is a helpful summary. Maybe Richmond can work to overcome themselves for a change.
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Wow, it’s amazing that all those bills — many of them substantive — were left in limbo. What did the General Assembly manage to accomplish this session? Anything?
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You got it. Nothing. Except the end of mask mandates that will probably be changed with round 4 of Covid. Should have addressed vaccinations, but time is too short for that argument. Thanks for doing this. I am printing and reviewing.
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The Twitter flow (similarity to a sewer flow no accident) was constant. That seemed to be the main focus, seeing who could behave the most like Trump on Twitter (a bipartisan goal now.)
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Just following the Fed model, you don’t have to work just whine and virtue signal on twitter. Your constituency is all too happy to ignore you haven’t done squat.
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The Twitter flow (similarity to a sewer flow no accident) was constant. That seemed to be the main focus, seeing who could behave the most like Trump on Twitter (a bipartisan goal now.)
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Lotta work there – both the GA doing and Dick laying it out. Thank You.
No mention of Youngkin buying TV ads today?
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I started to look up the past years when they left without a budget but lost interest. 🙂 Thanks for doing the research. And yes, very unusual (unprecedented?) to allow unadopted conference issues to carry over to a special session. In this case many (but not all) are issues also in the budget such as the tax bills, so some logic.
I fear the impasse this time is all about embarrassing the Governor or trying to. When the revenue is up rather than down compromise is so much easier. You and I could sit across the table the parse this quickly. I can’t believe the Senate Democrats are that convinced their own voters would throw them out for agreeing to some tax cuts. Nobody ever lost an election because they voted for tax cuts. And with all the revenue changes it made, the House budget is still a whopper. The conference report would land in the middle.
But neither of us is privy to what is going on behind the scenes.
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The big secret elephant in the room is the work the GOP is doing to fix that pesky Dem majority in the Senate – problem! 😉
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The tax on groceries is profoundly regressive. I have opposed it since the long ago day it was imposed. Hope they figure out how to pass the legislation to remove it. Money is available this year to offset the loss of revenue.
I think I remember a couple of years when the clocks in the GA ran peculiarly slowly as adjournment approached faster than business got done.
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I seem to remember occasions when the Assembly ran past midnight on the last day. It was said that the legislators stopped the clock. However, I could not find any newspaper reports to document my memory, so I did not include that in my discussion.
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FWIW, that is my memory too, likely from local tv reporting. The Google is not helping me document it either.
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