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Anonymous ID: e1c56f Feb. 17, 2020, 9:19 a.m. No.8163945   🗄️.is 🔗kun

What to expect if Dems regain power in DC:

 

Virginia emerges as South progressive leader under Democrats

 

…Lawmakers also have advanced this year:

 

— a renewable energy measure that will likely raise electric rates but, environmentalists say, make the state among the greenest in the country

 

— comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation

 

— bills that abortion-rights advocates say will make Virginia a "safe haven" for women in neighboring conservative states

 

— resolutions to make Virginia the critical 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, a major victory for women's-rights advocates

 

— a repeal of a provision requiring voters to show ID before casting a ballot.

 

The legislature, led by the first female House speaker and with the highest number of African-Americans in leadership positions in the state's 400-year history, is set to give final passage to most pieces of landmark legislation ahead of the March 7 adjournment.

 

https://wcyb.com/news/local/virginia-emerges-as-south-progressive-leader-under-democrats

Anonymous ID: e1c56f Feb. 17, 2020, 9:55 a.m. No.8164288   🗄️.is 🔗kun

One thing unites establishment Democrats: Fear of Sanders

 

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A growing number of Democratic lawmakers, union officials, state leaders and party strategists agree that Bernie Sanders is a risky nominee to put up against President Donald Trump. There’s less agreement about whether — and how — to stop him.

 

Critics of the Vermont senator, who has long identified as a democratic socialist, are further than they’ve ever been from unifying behind a moderate alternative. None of the viable centrists in the race is eager to exit the campaign to clear a path for a candidate to become a clear counter to Sanders. And Sanders is looking to Saturday’s Nevada caucuses to post another win that would further his status as an early front-runner.

 

With fear and frustration rising in the party’s establishment wing, a high-stakes math problem is emerging. It could be impossible to blunt Sanders as long as a trio of moderate candidates — former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar — stay in the race. And with former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the swath of states that vote on Super Tuesday, March 3, the effort to stop Sanders will become even more challenging when the campaign goes national next month.

 

https://apnews.com/4788e8a658d7934e38a389746a7c58c5