Earlier this week, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed over one hundred bills into law. Below is a list of the bills. Each one is accompanied by a description provided by a press release from Youngkin’s office. HB 938 (Robinson) – Board of Education; stakeholder group; evaluation of and recommendations for certain current and proposed policies and performance […]
Rozia Henson, Jr. announced this week that he intends to seek the Democratic nomination for delegate in the new 19th District. Henson, a Woodbridge native, is a community organizer and local Democratic leader. Henson is vice president of the Prince William Young Democrats, vice-chair of the Prince William County Democratic Committee, and former chair of […]
Back in January former Virginia gubernatorial candidate and Delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy announced her candidacy for the 33rd District State Senate race. On Thursday she met with several members of the AAPI community in a listening session at Zaffron’s in Woodbridge. In front of a heavily attended event filled with elected officials and supporters from […]
Dumfries Mayor Derrick Wood announces re-election campaign Yesterday, Dumfries Mayor Derrick Wood, before a crowd of supporters, announced his intentions to run for re-election in the 2022 campaign. “Today, I stand more than committed to do the work that the people elected me to do, and that’s continue to make Dumfries a destination place where […]
On Tuesday, Republican Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana held a press conference discussing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court. During his press conference, he asserted that the Supreme Court was wrong in its decision of Loving v. Virginia. Loving v. Virginia was the 1967 Supreme Court case that led […]
On Wednesday, former Del. Hala Ayala, Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2021, announced her intention to run for state senate in the newly formed 33rd district. A long-time community leader and activist, Ayala was first elected to the House of Delegates in 2017. She served two terms representing the 51st district before winning the […]
Lorton, VA – Makya Little, a former FBI employee and CIA Officer who announced her candidacy for Virginia’s House of Delegates last month to represent a newly drawn district, won the Mount Vernon District Democratic Committee’s annual straw poll for HD-19. This was the 14th Annual Mardi Gras Celebration and Straw Poll, hosted and co-chaired […]
The Virginia General Assembly adjourned the 2022 legislative session on Saturday, leaving the budget and pending bills for a special legislative session that is expected soon. During the legislative session, State Senator Jennifer McClellan (D-9) worked extensively with legislators from both parties and passed 12 bills with bipartisan support. The bills ranged from criminal justice […]
During the General Assembly, Delegate Elizabeth Guzman (D-31st House District) honored civil rights trailblazers Isabel Allende and Dolores Huerta during International Women’s Day. In addition, Guzman called out the systemic racism that continued against the Latinx community. The transcript of the video is above:
A controversial bill to largely undo a new criminal-justice transparency law in Virginia will be worked out behind closed doors in the General Assembly session’s last week. The Democratic-led state Senate voted 26-13 Tuesday to send the legislation to a conference committee, a small panel of legislators that will work out its details and present a final […]
