by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, April 27. Also see Hillary Clinton’s victory speech last night, as she pivots towards the general election, most likely against neo-fascist buffoon Donald Trump.
- Clinton decisively wins Democratic primaries in 4 states
- Voters in Eastern Seaboard primaries embrace Trump (They mean right-wing Republican voters, not “voters” in general. In fact, Clinton and Sanders combined got THREE TIMES the votes that Trump did last night — around 560k votes to under 200k votes, and nearly twice the votes of Trump/Kasich/Cruz.)
- Primary Takeaways: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Edge Closer to Nominations
- Trump’s Clean Sweep Of Northeast Exposes Failure Of ‘Stop Trump’ Movement
- Katie McGinty Wins Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Primary (Good!)
- Restoring sanity to the debate over transgender bathroom use (“A federal appeals court ruling in favor of a Va. student sends a message to N.C. about its backward law.”)
- Van Hollen defeats Edwards in bitter primary for U.S. Senate in Maryland (A strong progressive and a rising star in the party. Congratulations!)
- Jamie Raskin defeats David Trone in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District primary (Great news, Raskin is a superb progressive and environmentalist, while David Trone threw huge amounts of $$$ away on broadcast TV. Duh.)
- Lesson from Edwards’s loss: ‘It shouldn’t be about race . . . We don’t go by gender’ (Agreed, it should be about – as Martin Luther King, Jr. said – the “content of one’s character.”)
- North Carolina’s ‘Monster’ Voter Suppression Law Could Swing The Election (The fact that a Bush-appointed judge ruled this constitutional is not surprising, but remains utterly disgraceful and unAmerican.)
- They’re all like David Brooks: The mainstream media will never understand middle America (Just remember, Brooks predicted vociferously for many, many months that there was NO WAY Donald Trump would ever be the Republican nominee for president. ‘Nuff said about this guy.)
- Schapiro: Va. Republicans risk overdoing it in rights debate (“In ranting rather than reasoning about McAuliffe’s decision, Republicans are reassuring their most reliable supporters: older, white conservatives, many of them male.” Definitely the correct word – “ranting.” Also “raving.”)
- Bob McDonnell Supreme Court case will test reach of bribery laws (Bottom line: I believe they should have a long reach.)
- Bob McDonnell’s strange bedfellows (“As the ex-Virginia governor challenges his corruption conviction in the Supreme Court, scores of top Democrats and Republicans are rooting him on.” Bizarre.)
- Va.’s ethics chief forced out as Supreme Court takes up McDonnell case (“Chris Piper had advised commerce secretary it was OK to take free Redskins tickets”)
- Administration: Past crimes of felons with restored rights irrelevant, largely unknown (The way it works in most states is that once you’ve “done your time” and “paid your debt to society,” your voting and civil rights are restored, end of story. It shouldn’t be any different in Virginia.)
- 2016 RPV State Convention at James Madison University … Here’s What You Need to Know
- Common interest’ in sports clears Virginia lawmakers to accept free tickets, ethics monitors say
- (Huh? People hvae a “common interest” in all kinds of things – sports cars, fancy jewelry and clothes, fine dining, etc. Should lawmakers be able to accept all of those?)
- Liberty University to allow gun storage in dormitories
- Fairfax officials adopt plan to increase homeowner taxes by an average of $304 (“The 2017 county budget will add $88.4 million to the county’s struggling school system” No fun to raise taxes, but the schools need the money.)
- Trump will not attend Virginia GOP convention at JMU, party says
- GOP leaders call for special session on McAuliffe’s voting rights order (” Gov. Terry McAuliffe rejected Republican leaders’ call Tuesday for a special legislative session on the governor’s order restoring voting rights for 206,000 felons, saying the legislature has ‘no specific role’ in the matter.”)
- Dominion to start releasing coal ash wastewater (I’d point out for the millionth time that solar, wind and energy efficiency don’t require dumping crap in our rivers – or air or anywhere else.)
- Virginian-Pilot Editorial: Ensuring involvement in Beach schools
- Cooler, cloudier, and showery at times through the weekend
