Incoming VA AG just FIRED the entire civil rights division in the Attorney General's office.

[Nevilledog]

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L. Louise Lucas
@SenLouiseLucas
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Jan 14, 2022

I've been told incoming AG @JasonMiyaresVA just FIRED the entire civil rights division in the Attorney General's office. My bill helped create and expand the authority that this division uses.

This whole campaign we had to listen to @JasonMiyaresVA whining about local prosecutors choosing not to prosecute certain crimes- then he gets elected and eliminates an entire division dedicated to enforcing civil rights law. Total hypocrisy and it needs to be SEEN.

I promise all of you the Virginia Senate Democrats will respond with ACTION whenever the new Governor, Attorney General or anyone else tries to roll back our progress!

Already hearing that the AG-elect is claiming it’s just “some” of the office- and says it will still “exist”. In what form?

We are not going to be gaslit by PR statements- this is the people’s AG office and we all deserve full transparency on what happened today.
2:29 PM · Jan 14, 2022

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is what happens when republicans get elected: they cancel the good and replace it with evil.

I am disgusted but not surprised.

[DEbluedude]

2. Drownin' it in the bathtub.

Little by little.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. He won't be sworn in until tomorrow. NT

[AverageOldGuy]

24. Here's a link to the story in the Richmond VA paper

https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/miyares-fires-30-in-ags-office-including-lawyer-investigating-dangerous-conditions-at-richmond-apartments/article_280125a7-9dda-58db-a0e0-667758fafd0f.html

[Demovictory9]

4. omg

[monkeyman1]

5. law suit time !! fast !!

[Karadeniz]

6. Jeez!!! Totally fascist....

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[uponit7771]

8. We expected them to be non racist by now? Seems like RepubliKKKlans are getting more racist

[groundloop]

23. 45* made it OK to be racist and as a result they're influencing others.

For many years overt racism wasn't ok, and while some have said that they're glad racists are now showing us who they are I don't see that as a good thing. Before 45* made it ok to be openly racist again most of them stayed under their rocks, now that they're out in the open with they're hatred again they're influencing more and more people with their bullshit. It's going to take many many years to but this genie back in the bottle.

[2naSalit]

9. And I WAS thinking about...

Maybe moving there. Guess not now.

[COL Mustard]

31. My part of VA is still pretty comfortable

Inside the Beltway. Of course that makes me automatically a Commie to most of my family. And not the baseball kind:

https://www.ebbets.com/collections/decatur-commies

[2naSalit]

34. I need a rather...

Rural-ish environment, the Beltway is far too crowded, but that's good to know.

[COL Mustard]

36. You can find parts of Virginia that are ruralish and probably still pretty comfortable

Charlottesville comes to mind. Other places you'll be pretty much left alone, but there are places where I think you can get really quickly into TFG-loving areas (I'm talking far Southwest VA).

[aeromanKC]

10. Have fun for the next 4 years Virginia living in a Facist state

You made your bed and now you have to live in it!! ZERO thoughts and prayers for you Brownshirts!! It was plain as day what was coming for you in the campaign. You ignorants fell for the GQP CRT and other the sky is falling red herrings.

Hopefully the rest of America can see this and NOT follow your path!! However, thanks for the foreshadowing.

[edhopper]

13. More likely

a preview to what is coming to the rest of the country.

[58Sunliner]

14. You might consider they did not win. What do pukes do?

Cheat.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

29. They won. NT

[58Sunliner]

38. What do pukes do? Cheat. They have been cheating for decades.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

40. They won. If you have evidence that they cheated to win this election, please cite it.

You can't blame every election loss on cheating by the opponent. Youngkin ran a better race than Terry McAuliffe.

This is probably going to get my post alerted on, but maybe, just maybe, McAuliffe didn't run that good of a campaign. Further, as has been said elsewhere, he made a huge gaffe in the form of a comment about education.

Youngkin ran a better campaign, and he won. If you want to win, you'll need higher turnout. If people stay home, count on losing, every last time.

Thank you.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. This is what will happen on steroids if we lose mid-terms and more governorships. Crunch time.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Quelle Surprise!

Quelle Surprise!

[58Sunliner]

15. These people are POS. Youngkin thinks he can smile and be less caustic and lie.

He is looking to for a 2024 nomination, and that is why if they cheated, it mattered so much. They will control VA which voted for Biden. He looked at DT and said I can do a better job conning people. He is a piece of garbage and must be stopped.

[Bettie]

16. He'll probably staff it with

some neo-nazis to ensure that it pursues the "evils" of accurate history and the terrible racism against white people.

[FakeNoose]

21. Maybe they'll start interviewing for the new staff in Charlottesville tomorrow

[mahatmakanejeeves]

30. That wouldn't be bad.

I suspect that when you say "Charlottesville," you are referring to the events of August 2017. Those days were an exception to the rule.

The people who were put on trial for the actions they carried out when they came to Charlottesville from somewhere else, maybe even where you live, were judged by the people who live in Charlottesville and possibly the surrounding Albemarle County, the year around.

Perhaps you can refresh your memory as to what those verdicts were.

Happy New Year.

[Klaralven]

17. Miyares fires 30 in AG's office, including lawyer investigating dangerous conditions at Richmond apa

Miyares fires 30 in AG's office, including lawyer investigating dangerous conditions at Richmond apartments

Attorney Gen.-elect Jason Miyares notified about 30 staff members in the office - 17 of them attorneys - that they won't have jobs in his administration, including the lawyer who was investigating dangerous conditions as a south Richmond apartment complex in Richmond's largest Latino neighborhood.

Miyares, a Republican, will be sworn in on Saturday to replace Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring, whom Miyares defeated in the November election.

Miyares spokeswoman Victoria LaCivita said the 30 staff members were told that Miyares would be moving in a different direction.

"During the campaign, it was made clear that now Attorney General-elect Miyares and Attorney General Herring have very different visions for the office," she said by email for this story. "We are restructuring the office, as every incoming AG has done in the past."

She declined to provide the breakdown of which divisions the attorneys work in, saying it was multiple divisions across the office.

https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/miyares-fires-30-in-ags-office-including-lawyer-investigating-dangerous-conditions-at-richmond-apartments/article_280125a7-9dda-58db-a0e0-667758fafd0f.html

[spanone]

18. Just the beginning, by November republicons will win every election in the country.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

35. Not true.

That is what they want us to think so we dont turn out. President Biden needs support to achieve his goals, and a few seats in the Senate would sure be a game changer.

[WarGamer]

19. Will Youngkin come to the rescue of CSA Monuments in Va??

Wouldn't surprise me


But to be serious, though... elections have consequences. You made your bed, VA... now sleep in it.

PS, I just moved back to SoCal from NoVA... coincidence?

[Traildogbob]

20. Here we go

And we wondered how Putin and other dictators constantly got 95+ percent of the votes every election cycle.

[Historic NY]

22. Elections have consequences....

They should have found a new, vibrant candidate.

[StevieM]

26. If they had, he or she would have been savaged too.

There would have been some type of swift boating or campaign of personal destruction.

[liberalmediaaddict]

25. Virginia is about to learn a hard lesson

about what happens when you elect Republican fascists to lead your state.
But hey, at least Critical Race Theory will be banned from schools. Even though it was never taught in schools.

[Jon King]

27. Yup, they told suburban parents their kids would play sports vs trans kids too.

Suburban parents may poll as progressives, its easy to answer a pollster. But in reality they voted in the VA election because they were told their white kids are being taught they are bad, their daughters would all lose to teams loaded with trans kids, and they still cringe if they see 2 guys kiss in a Hallmark movie.

They did not bother to see if anything was accurate. The suburbs are not as progressive as we would like to think they are.

[argyl]

28. Yep. CRT was just what they needed to whip the MAGAts up.

Make 'em believe their 1st graders get a book on it when they first walk through the schoolroom.

Hell, I got a BS in Biochemistry and an MS in Environmental Sciences and I'd never even heard of it. But, man oh man, do I hear about it now, years after I got out of University.

[bluestarone]

32. I fear the new thing is, IF they are against abortion VOTE them in.

STUPID times a BILLION!

[Tickle]

33. This is why everyone of us

needs to get out and vote. Let the majority win and the pain will be lessoned

I said this in another post. Mid terms are typically low in numbers and we lose seats and governorships. We can't let that happen this year. There is so much at stake

[turbinetree]

37. My home state is truly an embarrassment....they lost and keep thinking they won....

[C Moon]

39. Taking away the non-white votes for 2022 and beyond.

[msfiddlestix]

41. Maybe they can get hired at the justice dept.

they have skill sets DOJ/FBI just might need, I'm thinking.

[grantcart]

42. "Merrick Garland there is a massive spill in Aisle Virginia"

[empedocles]

43. One more republicon prez candidate just registered his . . . 'bonafides'