Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail salesof marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase.
The development, which drew criticism from Democrats who control the General Assembly, did not come as a surprise. While Youngkin had not explicitly threatened to veto either set of bills, he told reporters he didn’t think the minimum wage legislation was needed and had repeatedly said he was uninterested in setting up retail marijuana sales.
In 2021, Virginia became the first Southern state to legalize marijuana, adopting a policy change that allowed adults age 21 and up to possess and cultivate the drug. But the state didn’t set up retail sales at the time and still hasn’t, due to shifts in partisan power and policy differences since then.
Fuck Trumpkin.
Youngkin and other Republicans don’t even consider the fact that people will buy weed regardless and all they’re doing is losing out on tax revenue. It likely won’t even increase the private prison population much. It’s pretty easy to hide the fact that you sell weed, especially if you can legally grow it.
I know people in Virginia, they just drive to DC for their weed. This guy is a dunce
In VA you can order it online and have it delivered to your door the same day. Or so I’ve heard…
Youngkin really shoving his head completely up his own ass. Thinks taking a stand against massively popular ballot measures will cement his presidential run, while at the same time proving his inability to govern by leaving millions of tax revenue on the table. Here’s hoping this ushers in even stronger Dem representation in VA to keep the state blue.
Fucking Terry McAuliffe cemented his loss with, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
My jaw hit the floor. I knew his campaign was doomed. What kind of idiot tells voters that they shouldn’t have a say in what their kids learn? He destroyed his career with that mouth breathing comment and pushed the entire state into a pile of shit.
I wanted to reach through the tv and slap him in his face. He pretty much handed this idiot the governor’s seat.
While he should have said it better, he’s 100% correct.
That’s going to make for excellent attack ads.
What a cunt. Virginia really needs to split in two. The top 20% of the state geographically makes up the majority of its people and wealth. The rest is rednecks and dumb shits who get retards like this elected.
Northern Virginia probably has more republicans than the rest of the state. The cities have the dems. Richmond, Hampton roads, college towns etc
Virginia really needs to split in two again
A LOT of republicans live in NoVA. All that sweet government and DoD money they want to keep flowing.
Incorrect. Graph of size of victory, see that it’s more red in the north.
Yeah looks more split east to west than north to south.
Man, I hate it when politicians represent the will of the people.
The weird thing about it is this only helps criminals. They already have legal weed, so the only crime is how it is sold. If you make legal retail sales, then you give money to corporations (Republicans like that, right?) and also get sweet sweet tax revenue from it (Republicans also like getting money to pay for more police and military equipment for them, right?). This is a weird mix of not getting revenue to pay for stopping crime while also encouraging crime to happen.
“Republican…”
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