Stefanik names a Republican 'Woman to Watch' in VA-07
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Vanuch is one of Stefanik’s “Women to Watch”
Republican House of Representatives Conference Chair and E-PAC founder Elise Stefanik added VA-07 Republican candidate Crystal Vanuch to her “Women to Watch” List for the 2022 cycle. E-PAC was launched after the 2018 midterm elections to support top Republican female candidates in primaries across the country.
Vanuch is running against a slate of Republicans looking to unseat Rep. Abigail Spanberger in Virginia's seventh congressional district.
While Stefanik’s E-PAC hasn’t actually endorsed in VA-07 yet, the powerful House group has already thrown their support fully behind Jen Kiggans in VA-02 and Jeanine Lawson in VA-10.
Nominees in VA-02 and VA-10 will be decided by a primary on June 21. The nominee in VA-10 will by chosen by a firehouse primary on May 21.
Fundraising emails from congressional campaigns
VA-02 Republican candidate Jen Kiggans:
Have you seen the numbers? If Joe Biden lifts Title 42, an estimated 18,000 illegal immigrants will come into the country per day.
This administration has already created a humanitarian crisis at the border… we can’t afford to let it get any worse. Will you sign my petition to make our voices heard and demand action from this administration?
Joe Biden has already released an estimated 836,000 illegal immigrants into the United States since 2021. That is a larger population than five states in our union. This administration is blatantly changing voter demographics in their favor and ignoring our nation’s laws and borders.
We are not a nation without borders, and we have to take care of the American people struggling every day to make ends meet because of Joe Biden’s disastrous policies. Don’t wait until it’s irreversible….sign today and help send Jen to Washington in November so we can end this crisis for good.
With gratitude,
Team Kiggans
VA-07 Republican candidate Yesli Vega
BREAKING NEWS!!! The Radical, Far-Left Lincoln Project has identified VA-07 as a TARGET SEAT TO WATCH! This means that we’re doing something right. Yesli Vega has made a HUGE splash in Spanberger’s district, and we’re on our way to victory. While this is incredible news, we still need your help to get there. Can we count on you to chip in and help Yesli make it to the finish line, unseating Spanberger in the process? We must protect our Commonwealth, and our democracy - while we still can. Please make a donation today and FIGHT the Lincoln Project, the Radical Left, and Abigail Spanberger.
For freedom,
Team Vega
Another top VITA executive steps down, third this year - RTD
by Michael Martz
The Virginia Information Technologies Agency is losing its third high-level manager since Gov. Glenn Youngkin replaced its top executive in January.
Acting Chief Operating Officer Demetrias Rodgers resigned last week from the state IT agency, which is central to carrying out the governor’s new telework policy for state employees and pending budget proposals to bolster the cybersecurity defenses of Virginia government.
The Virginia Public Access Project released graphics showing different data for lobbyists in Virginia
Lobbyists and Clients by Year
Lobbyist Years of Experience
Lobbyist Portfolio
Who Hires Lobbyists?
Protests outside homes of Supreme Court Justices bring scope of civil liberties into focus - WTOP
by Abigail Constantino & Kate Ryan
Protesters outside the homes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices have been the focus of debate over when and where First Amendment rights can be exercised.
On Monday night, some 100 people gathered outside Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s home in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Virginia.
Jim Myles Wins Republican Nomination in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District - WMAL
On Saturday, Republicans from across Virginia’s new 11th Congressional District assembled to elect their nominee to take on incumbent Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly. In a “firehouse primary” that utilized a rank choice vote, former federal judge and Air Force veteran Jim Myles emerged victorious in a field of five candidates.
Republicans believe that Jim Myles experience and career in public service, coupled with the low favorability ratings of Democrats, gives them a great opportunity to pick up a seat that has historically been deep blue.
Challenge to voting law requiring full SSN survives - Lawyers Weekly
By Nicholas Hurston
A challenge by the Democratic Party of Virginia, or DVPA, to the state’s requirement that voting registrants disclose their full nine-digit Social Security number has survived a motion to dismiss from the State Board of Elections and the Republican Party of Virginia.
The Eastern District of Virginia found that the DVPA and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, had adequate standing to challenge the law based on their allegations of direct injury to voter registration drives and absentee ballot efforts.
Va. school board delays vote on telling parents how students self-identify - WaPo
Orange County School Board members delayed voting on a proposal Monday that would have required schools to disclose to parents their students’ “self-identification,” a policy LGBTQ advocates worried could be harmful for students.
While that resolution was delayed, board members in the Virginia district voted 3 to 2 to approve a second resolution to ban critical race theory from the school system’s training program, curriculum and materials.
Amid global energy price spikes, Dominion customers’ bills could rise between 12 and 20 percent - Virginia Mercury
by Sarah Vogelsong
Dominion customers could see their monthly bill rise by between 12 and 20 percent due to rising fuel costs linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation and the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to company filings with the State Corporation Commission Thursday.
The electric utility, Virginia’s largest, is asking state regulators to approve an increase in its fuel factor, the rate levied on customers to cover the costs of purchasing fuel for power plants.
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