Post-Election Update:
Openly gay Republican John Reid ran a strong race and fought the good fight in his bid for lieutenant governor, but the immense concentration of federal government employees in northern Virginia makes it tough going for statewide GOP candidates in the best of circumstances, and, sadly, Winsome Earle-Sears was a weak candidate for the governorship against well-financed and slick “fake moderate” Abigail Spanberger.
Reid was defeated for lieutenant governor by Ghazala Hashmi, a far-left leaning nonentity who repeatedly refused to debate Reid and only agreed to softball interviews with liberal media.
Spanberger, who voted the straight Democratic party line as a Congressmember, marching in strict lockstep with Nancy Pelosi and then Hakeem Jefferies, is now indebted to party progressives. The teachers’ unions will gain more protection against having to actually, you know, teach, while student achievement again declines. She’ll bring higher taxes to fund more unnecessary and wasteful spending that goes to favored constituencies, which then funnel funds back to the party. And more gerrymandering to ensure that only progressives Democrats can be elected to the state legislature in Richmond and to Congress.
So, more decline while the self-satisfied northern Virginia elites and government rent-seekers celebrate their victory. All so sad.