Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger Launches De-Youngkinization On Day One

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https://www.wonkette.com/p/virginia-gov-abigail-spanberger-launches
Doktor Zoom

Abigail Spanberger was sworn in Saturday -- wearing Suffragette white, her hand on her grandmother's Bible -- as Virginia's first woman governor, though she's the 75th person to hold the office. She quickly made clear that with a Democratic trifecta in the commonwealth, elected by far larger margins than outgoing Gov. Glenn Youngkin, it's time to stand up to the authoritaran regime that's taken over the federal government. She didn't name Donald Trump, and didn't have to. Everyone knows who eliminated the jobs of roughly 23,000 federal workers who live(d) in Virginia (plus layoffs of another 7,000 private jobs, many with companies that contracted with the federal government).

It was a good speech! Here, have a video and a transcript!

Spanberger briefly emphasized that when she talks about the potential for government to improve people's lives, she means all the people: "in Virginia, our hardworking, law-abiding immigrant neighbors will know that when we say -- we'll focus on the security and safety of all of our neighbors, we mean them too."

Then she got right to work making it so.

After the speech, Spanberger signed a package of 10 executive orders aimed at reversing some of Youngkin's policies, and at shielding people from the economic impact of the dog's breakfast that Trump is making of federal tax and funding policy.

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And in the most significant departure from her predecessor, she threw out Youngkin's executive order requiring state and local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with ICE.

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1. I see "dog's breakfast" has worked itself into the American vocabulary from across the pond. :D nt

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2. Good phrases flow both ways!