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EmirOfShmo

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From the article about the veto (my highlights):

 

Price’s bill would give localities the ability to take legal action against landlords who don’t address serious violations in a reasonable time frame, including “a fire hazard or serious threat to the life, health, or safety of tenants or occupants.” Judges could order the landlord to make these repairs.

“And if the landlord doesn't make the repairs, that landlord can be held in civil contempt and sent to jail until he finds a way to make them,” Marra says.

 

In his veto, Youngkin said the legislation “contains unnecessary and duplicative provisions” and suggested tenants should also bear responsibility for conditions: “Landlords and tenants both have responsibilities to maintain safe, decent, and sanitary housing.” Marra said he appeared to misunderstand the bill since it was “not duplicative.”

Price called Youngkin’s claims “factually inaccurate” and said she was surprised by the veto. She said no one from the governor’s office reached out to her about the bill.

 

Yeah, dumbass, this bill puts some teeth in the penalties to force the landlord to fix the things they are responsible for that aren't safe, decent & sanitary. And you're a ****ing liar.

 

Oh, and there's this:

 

"She said she had little hope Republicans would override any of Youngkin’s 26 vetoes – all bills passed with bipartisan support that were sponsored by Democrats."

 

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RICHMOND — Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s attempt to force the entire Loudoun County School Board to face new elections this fall, shortening the terms of most of its members, stunned many state political observers as an intrusion into local election integrity without modern precedent in Virginia.

 

The plan — aimed at a school board that Youngkin has made a constant political target — initially won approval from the Republican-controlled House of Delegates during a reconvened General Assembly session Wednesday. But the Democratic-controlled Senate killed it, with one Republican senator joining the vote against a measure he called “troubling.”

 

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EmirOfShmo

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One person - Trumpkin's Chief of Staff - will decide who will be allowed to telework more than 2 days a week. Makes sense. Micro-manage much?

 

State employees, legislators decry Youngkin's new telework policy

 

Gov. Glenn Youngkin ended “Public Service Recognition Week” by announcing a new telework policy that confused and demoralized many state government employees who have survived the COVID-19 pandemic by working mostly from their homes.

Youngkin launched the new policy hurriedly on Thursday evening as details publicly emerged that appeared to contradict the message that the governor and his top staff had sought to deliver — a promise of flexibility for some 55,000 workers in 65 executive branch agencies in where and how they do their jobs.

Instead, state employees and agency heads say the policy reduces flexibility for agencies in allowing their employees to work remotely by requiring approval by a Cabinet secretary or the governor’s chief of staff for any employee to telework more than one day a week, beginning on July 5.

“People think it’s ironic that this is how the governor chose to communicate with people in Public Service Week,” said one state agency director, who asked to remain anonymous because of potential retaliation.

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“I think it certainly makes us less competitive with the private sector,” the director said. “I don’t think there’s any doubt about it.”

Youngkin and his top aides agree that the new policy will limit the latitude of state agency heads to depart from the new standards, which they say is necessary to improve the delivery of services to the public.

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“We want to standardize workplace policies and practices across executive agencies to enable customer-centric services, top-tier education, safety and security, and prosperity for Virginia,” Chief of Staff Jeff Goettman said in a letter to employees on Thursday that included the actual policy, which the governor’s office had not distributed to the news media when it announced the initiative.

 

https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/state-employees-legislators-decry-youngkins-new-telework-policy/article_c356b47c-4e43-5105-a691-86a6f724526f.html#tncms-source=login

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Larry

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Probably part of the motive is "this will make a lot of civil service workers quit, so we can replace them with loyalists". 
 

Maybe I'm being overly cynical. But after watching the GOP over the last decade or so, I don't think so. 

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I dispise Youngkin as much as any, this...is fascinating...

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/20/virginia-law-prevents-traffic-quotas/?utm_source=reddit.com

 

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In a long-overdue reform, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) last month signed bipartisan legislation that will finally prohibit ticket and arrest quotas for Virginia’s law enforcement agencies.

 

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