With all eyes laser-focused on Virginia’s 2021 Gubernatorial race between Terry McAullife (D) and Glenn Youngkin (R) this November, another election cycle looms just around the corner with Virginia’s 2022 midterm elections in the rear-view mirror. In VA-08, a progressive challenger has emerged seeking to unseat three-term incumbent and former Virginia Lieutenant Governor, Donald S. […]
$250 million in American Rescue Plan funding, $250 million in local matching funds, will complete nearly all currently planned school HVAC projects
Today, Senator Jennifer McClellan (D-Richmond) and Delegate Jeff Bourne (D-Richmond) attended the ceremonial signing of their bills (SB 1315 and HB 2047) improving how Virginia’s criminal justice system addresses cases involving individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities, autism, and mental health conditions. The law went into effect on July 1. The new law will: End a 1980s […]
Today, the Virginia Senate passed Senator Jennifer McClellan’s (D-Richmond) civic youth engagement bill (SB 1439), which will allow middle and high school students an excused absence per year in order to participate in a civic event. The bill passed the Senate 25-14 on final passage, accepting a technical amendment from the House. Del. Sam Rasoul’s […]
Delegate Elizabeth Guzman – a social worker, public administrator, and progressive who would have been the first woman and first Latina to serve as lieutenant governor of Virginia – today released the following statement announcing her withdrawal from the race to focus on her House of Delegates campaign: “After assessing the campaign finance reports that […]
As we near the end of Black Maternal Health Week we would like to highlight candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Delegate Hala Ayala (D-51) who recently released her plan to protect Black mothers and combat racial disparities in healthcare outcomes across the Commonwealth. If elected, Ayala would be the first woman and first Afro-Latina to hold […]
Join Virginia gubernatorial candidate and former 2nd-District Delegate, Jennifer Carroll Foy, for a virtual town hall on the topic of Black mortality rates tonight at 5:00 PM featuring Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) sponsor of the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act aimed at fighting the Black maternal mortality rate across America. “Today Rep. Lauren Underwood is […]
Today, Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing the death penalty, making Virginia the 23rd state, and the first in the South, to stop executions. Senate Bill 1165, sponsored by Senator Scott Surovell, and House Bill 2263, sponsored by Delegate Mike Mullin, prohibit the use of capital punishment for any violation of Virginia law. Governor Northam signed the […]
Today, Mary Barthelson, an engineer from Reston, officially announced her candidacy for the Virginia House of Delegates in HD-36 in the Democratic primary against Delegate Kenneth Plum. Mary Barthelson was born and raised in Northern Virginia. She obtained her master’s degree in systems engineering from George Mason University. She has worked as a data analyst […]
On Wednesday, the United States House of Representatives approved the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 on a party-line vote of 220 to 112 with only two Democratic Congressman, Jared Golden of Maine and Ron Kind of Wisconsin opposing the measure, and Republican Rep. Lance Gooden (R- Texas) stating after the fact that he had […]
