Can you say GOVERNOR Spanberger? 🤞 Richmond Mayor Stoney drops out - running for Lt. Governor
Bam!💥
The prospective Republicans are:
Amanda Chase
Winsome Sears - both of these are nutcases
Current Atty. Gen. Jason Miyares
Rep. Rob Wittman (Va-1) quite the contrived district.
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney to run for lieutenant governor
https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/richmond-mayor-levar-stoney-to-run-for-lieutenant-governor/
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney has announced that he will be running for lieutenant governor instead of governor.
This comes after Stoney announced his candidacy for governor on Dec. 4.
“After careful consideration with my family, I believe that the best way to ensure that all Virginia families do get the change they deserve is for our party to come together, avoid a costly and damaging primary and, for me to run instead for lieutenant governor,” Stoney said in a release to media during the morning on Tuesday, April 23.
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She is a No Labels Problem Solver, and was consistently anti-Pelosi for Speaker (and publicy had other attacks on her), plus she was a bomb-thrower in warring with the Progressive Caucus (the biggest Democratic House Caucus), and went after Biden on the Infrastructure Bills, and then later on, partially blamed them (even though she helped gut the hell out them) for inflation.
https://rollcall.com/2019/01/03/here-are-the-15-democrats-who-didnt-vote-for-pelosi-as-speaker/
January 3, 2019
Rep. Anthony Brindisi of New York voted for former Vice President Joe Biden.
Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee voted “present.”
Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado voted for Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth.
Rep. Joe Cunningham of South Carolina voted for Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos of Illinois.
Rep. Jared Golden of Maine also voted for Bustos.
Rep. Ron Kind of Wisconsin voted for Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis.
Rep. Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania voted for Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III.
Rep. Ben McAdams of Utah voted for Florida Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy.
Rep. Kathleen Rice of New York voted for 2018 Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams.
Rep. Max Rose of New York voted for Duckworth.
Rep. Kurt Schrader of Oregon voted for Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcia L. Fudge.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey voted for Bustos.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan voted “present.”
Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia voted for Bustos.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey voted “present.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/03/pelosi-speaker-election-454076
01/03/2021
Pelosi won 216 votes to secure the speakership with five Democrats breaking ranks to support someone else or vote present.
But not every returning Democrat ended up voting for Pelosi, despite stark warnings from senior party members that they should do so. Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) became the first defection of the day, casting his vote for Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.). He was followed by Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), who picked House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries for speaker. Both Golden and Lamb weren’t expected to support Pelosi. Three other Democrats who didn’t support Pelosi in 2019 — Reps. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey — all voted “present.”
https://problemsolverscaucus.house.gov/about
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), left, and Spanberger confer before a news conference by the bipartisan Problems Solvers Caucus at the Capitol (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
https://sports.yahoo.com/moderate-democratic-rep-abigail-spanberger-200050927.html
Nov. 3, 2021
“We were so willing to take seriously a global pandemic, but we’re not willing to say, ‘Yeah, inflation is a problem, and supply chain is a problem, and we don’t have enough workers in our work force,’” said Representative Abigail Spanberger, a Virginia Democrat facing a bruising re-election. “We gloss over that and only like to admit to problems in spaces we dominate.” More pointedly, Ms. Spanberger said Mr. Biden must not forget that, for many voters, his mandate was quite limited: to remove former President Donald J. Trump from their television screens and to make American life ordinary again.
“Nobody elected him to be F.D.R., they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos,” she said, alluding to the sweeping agenda the president is seeking to enact with the thinnest of legislative majorities. Democrats in Washington on Wednesday appeared no less determined to forge ahead with Mr. Biden’s signature domestic legislation: a major infrastructure bill and a multi-trillion-dollar package of social-welfare programs and initiatives to fight climate change. Both moderate and liberal lawmakers say they feel new urgency to show voters they can get big things done.
