VA state senator and Trump loyalist who refuses to wear a mask, is forced to sit in a plexiglass box

[Nevilledog]

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Mark Elliott
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Amanda Chase, Virginia state senator and Trump loyalist who refuses to wear a mask, is forced to sit in a plexiglass box. She's a leading GOP contender for governor. https://nytimes.com/2021/02/19/us/politics/virginia-republicans-governor.html…
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7:35 AM · Feb 19, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/us/politics/virginia-republicans-governor.html

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Republican Party of Virginia has voted four times since December to nominate its candidates for this year’s statewide races at a convention instead of in a primary election. But in a sign of the Trumpian times of denial and dispute in the G.O.P., nearly half of the party’s top officials are still trying to reverse the results.

The refusal of these Republicans to admit that they have lost, or to agree on a set of nominating rules, has fractured a state party already in upheaval: Republicans haven’t won a statewide election since 2009, and they now find themselves with legislative minorities for the first time in a generation. Even the broken windows at the state party’s Richmond headquarters haven’t been fixed for months.

Just a month after former President Donald J. Trump left office, Virginia’s drama is the first state-level boomerang of his legacy. State Republicans have internalized the lesson that there is no benefit to accepting results they don’t like, and the result is a paralyzed party unable to set the date, location and rules for how and when it will pick its 2021 nominees for statewide office, including the race for governor.

The intraparty dispute has scrambled longstanding political alliances and left Virginia Republicans in the awkward position of defending stances that were once anathema to a party that has been redefined by the Trump era.

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[lagomorph777]

1. They should all be kept in plastic cages.

Also, I'm delighted to see how fucked up they are internally!

[Nevilledog]

6. They can improve on the boxes....

Make it all sides, top.....and airproof.

[Qutzupalotl]

12. As sad as this:

Neither one realizes it's for their own protection and for those around them.

[EarnestPutz]

2. The disfunction of the Virginia GOP gladdens and warms my heart.

[FSogol]

3. Sadly, she's running for Governor.

[underpants]

7. She's not the front runner

She’s making a lot of noise right now but the VA GOP will do everything it can to put her away. I’ll be very surprised if they don’t nominate Kirk Cox.

[11 Bravo]

9. Happily, I don't believe she has a snowball's chance of winning.

If you think that the vote-heavy regions of NOVA and Norfolk-VA Beach- Newport News piled on to defeat Ed Gillespie, wait until you see how motivated we are to GOTV and flush this piece of work!

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. VA is a blue state now...nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. VA is a blue state now...nt

[captain queeg]

4. Like a bunch of spoiled toddlers

insted of being embarrassed the dick wads take pride in acting like that.

[underpants]

8. The weird part, their meetings are in a science museum

Yeah. A Republican surrounded by science everyday.

[Mariana]

5. I hope she was forced to pay for the plexiglass box herself. nt.

[tanyev]

13. I love it! Even better than a cone of shame.

[crickets]

14. Like a toddler in her playpen.