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Week 7: Show Me The Money!
  • 2024 Session
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Week 7: Show Me The Money!

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
  • On: February 24, 2024

Last weekend the House and Senate budget committees presented their amendments to the (Governor’s) introduced budget bills. By the end of this week, the House ….

Week Six: The Crossover!
  • 2024 Session
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Week Six: The Crossover!

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
  • On: February 17, 2024

This was crossover week, when the House had to take any action on House bills, and the Senate had to take any action on Senate ….

Week 5: The last full week before crossover!
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Week 5: The last full week before crossover!

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
  • On: February 10, 2024

This was the last week before crossover. All bills that will make it to the other chamber had to be heard in committee this week. The ….

Week 4: Things are really getting going now!
  • 2024 Session
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Week 4: Things are really getting going now!

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
  • On: February 3, 2024

Things are starting to move along in week four, as bills with fiscal impacts need to be in the money committees by now in order ….

Week 3: What we’re keeping an eye on in the General Assembly
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Week 3: What we’re keeping an eye on in the General Assembly

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
  • On: January 27, 2024

We’re keeping an eye on interesting bills and hot topics; keeping an eye on the freshmen delegates and senators as they pass their first bills; ….

Week Two: Bright ideas and taking out the trash
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Week Two: Bright ideas and taking out the trash

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
  • On: January 20, 2024

The General Assembly got down to business this week, with lots of committee and subcommittee work and very short floor sessions. Democrats quickly disposed of ….

Welcome to the 2024 General Assembly session!
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Welcome to the 2024 General Assembly session!

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
  • On: January 13, 2024

Welcome to the 2024 General Assembly session! With Democrats controlling both the House and the Senate by narrow margins, and a GOP Governor, it’ll be ….

  • 2024 Session
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Youngkin’s budget proposal takes from the poor to feed the rich

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
  • On: December 21, 2023

Yesterday Governor Youngkin presented his budget proposal, a map of his priorities and values, his and the VAGOP’s.  It creates a $3.5 billion loss of ….

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Welcome to the 2023 General Assembly Session!

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
  • On: January 14, 2023

Welcome to the 2023 General Assembly Session Welcome to the 2023 General Assembly session! Virginia Progressive Legislative Alert Newsletter January 14, 2023 The General Assembly ….

2022 VAPLAN Scorecard is here!
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2022 VAPLAN Scorecard is here!

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
  • On: March 26, 2022

The 2022 General Assembly session may have gone into overtime, but enough of the work is done to present our fifth annual scorecard! It was ….

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    VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social 2 weeks

    I mean...Youngkin vetoed a bill prohibiting insurance companies from discriminating against PrEP (HIV blocking meds) users;

    and vetoed a bill that would have added sexual orientation and gender identity to bullying definitions...

    Why the surprise?
    x.com/jaaavis/stat...

    Brandon Jarvis on X: ""What I didn't expect was the governor I have always supported to call and demand my resignation without even showing me the supposed evidence or offering me a chance to respond," Reid said." / X

    "What I didn't expect was the governor I have always supported to call and demand my resignation without even showing me the supposed evidence or offering me a chance to respond," Reid said.

    x.com

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    VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social 2 weeks

    License plate reader case update (just mentioned in today's FOIA Council meeting): judge ruled just this week that law enforcement ARE required to release the collected ALPR data when requested. cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i...

    I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here's what I learned.

    Anyone might wonder how often they are caught on police cameras that operate 24/7. I spent a day driving, and over a month trying to get the answer.

    cardinalnews.org

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    VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social 3 weeks

    "...expected impacts of tariffs on imported goods played a role in the decision to lay off {250 workers}."

    But hey, according to GOP governor candidate Winsome Sears, losing your job isn't a huge thing, it "happens to everybody all the time!" www.wfxrtv.com/news/local-n...

    Volvo confirms 250+ layoffs coming to New River Valley truck assembly plant

    DUBLIN, Va. (WFXR) – Volvo plans to lay off at least 250 employees at its semi-truck plant in Dublin by the end of March, the company confirms to WFXR News. The automaker previously said it w…

    www.wfxrtv.com

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    VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social 4 weeks

    Anyone old enough to remember when the GOP pretended to care about the Constitution, due process, all that? Or was that only when it came to white men and their guns?

    Scott MacFarlane

    ALERT: Weeks after nationally-televised press conference .. in which Attorney General Pam Bondi referred to Henrry Villatoro-Santos as "east coast leader" of MS 13 .. Justice Dept seeks to *drop* the case

    Raising questions from former prosecutors...

    www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-see...

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    VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social 1 month

    "When the Trump administration fired thousands of them overnight, throwing their lives into chaos, Miyares had every opportunity to join the fight to protect them. Instead, he stood by while Virginians lost their jobs, their paychecks and their ability to provide for their families"

    Jay Jones

    Jason Miyares has had every chance to stand up for Virginia families—but time and again, he has chosen not to. I wrote about why that matters, and what I’d do differently as Attorney General.

    Read more in @pilotonline.com: www.pilotonline.com/2025/04/08/c...

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