About: 

The purpose of Blue Virginia is to cover Virginia politics from a pro-democracy, pro-environment, pro-science, pro-civil-rights, etc. perspective – and to help elect Democrats. This is a group blog, founded by me, Lowell Feld.  Personally, I consider myself a progressive in the tradition of Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, JFK, RFK (JFK’s brother, *not* RFK Jr, lol) and a bunch of very-old-school progressive Republicans (e.g.,  Jacob Javits, Lowell Weicker). As such, I believe in expanding opportunities to all, utilizing government as a tool to promote the general welfare and the common good, protecting the environment for ourselves and for future generations, and expanding the rights promised in our Constitution and Bill of Rights to all Americans. Also, it’s crucial to state these days that in the United States of America at this point, as well as in Virginia, there’s really only one option if you are pro-democracy, and that’s the Democratic Party, as the only other alternative – the Republican Party of Donald Trump – is virulently anti-democracy, as well as anti-science, anti-worker, anti-immigrant, anti-women’s rights, etc, etc. So…no, the Democratic Party is never going to be perfect by any means, but the other guys (and they’re elected officials are overwhelmingly guys) are craaazy!

With that, I invite everyone to comment here, but please be aware that profanity, personal attacks, bigotry, and “trolling” are not allowed. Thanks, and enjoy!

Disclosure: Also note that Blue Virginia “front pager” authors have sometimes consulted to Democratic candidates. For instance, Lowell consulted during 2018 to Sen. Kaine’s reelection campaign and during 2013 to Mark Herring’s campaign for Attorney General.

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