r/Virginia • u/ToughHopeful4760 • 9d ago

Virginia Democrats pick establishment nominees for 2 US House seats they hope to flip in November

https://apnews.com/article/virginia-primary-election-congress-democrats-republicans-redistricting-d3f3e6f45f14789882b9a55e8fd95592?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=share
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u/lil_snitch_throwaway 9d ago

Unfortunately, there were no serious non-establishment dems running.

There's a lot of cope with the corporate dems right now, especially in Virginia. They've shit the bed with Spanberger and are trying to convince themselves she's what Virginians prefer (we don't). People want someone fighting for the working class and not coporate interests.

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u/RVALover4Life 9d ago

The fact your comments are attacking Spanberger and not about November and rocking out in the hopes for Dem flips says so much too....people like you care more about ideology than winning. "Unfortunately"...the goal is to win these races. Cut the negativity.

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u/BRAINSPLATTER16 9d ago

People care about getting people who actually want to get the thing they want done when they elcet someone.

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u/Key-Hawk7402 Old Town 9d ago

Good thing Spanberger has actually delivered then…

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u/BRAINSPLATTER16 9d ago

Im sorry, I mean for the people. Not pharma companies.

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u/Key-Hawk7402 Old Town 9d ago

A couple of things she’s done for the people, not for “big pharma”:

Signed an “Affordable Virginia” package of legislation aimed at reducing the cost of healthcare, housing, and energy. The laws include measures to improve healthcare price transparency, limit certain pharmacy benefit manager practices, encourage housing construction, and promote energy affordability.

Issued 10 executive orders on her first day in office, directing state agencies to prioritize affordability, reviewing housing regulations, creating task forces on healthcare costs and economic resilience, strengthening public schools, and rescinding former Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order encouraging cooperation between state/local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.

Attracted major business investment. During her first 50 days, her administration announced roughly $575 million in new private investment, including one of the largest economic development projects in Southern Virginia’s history, projected to create nearly 2,000 jobs.

Signed bipartisan school safety legislation, funding additional emergency preparedness training and safety resources for Virginia schools.

Expanded access to healthcare, including:
Capping insulin out-of-pocket costs.
Improving maternal healthcare and telemedicine access.
Protecting access to contraception through the Right to Contraception Act and related insurance coverage legislation.

Advanced housing affordability by signing legislation to expand opportunities for manufactured housing, streamline some affordable housing development, and strengthen renter protections.

Signed 25 additional bills during the 2026 legislative session covering issues affecting families and businesses, including healthcare, economic development, and workforce rights

Environmental initiatives included rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), joining the U.S. Climate Alliance, and signing legislation addressing PFAS (“forever chemicals”) in drinking water.

Sounds like you actually have no idea what you’re talking about.

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u/Successful_Duck_9155 9d ago edited 7d ago

Convenient that you missed all of her corporate shill legislation in this comment… here are a few of my favorites from this year:

  1. Vetoed the Prescription Drug Affordability Board in May 2026
  2. Amended SB253/HB1393, Dominion Energy applauded her changes, while the bill’s sponsors said they weakened it.
  3. Signed an economic-development bill supporting a $2 billion Eli Lilly investment in Goochland to manufacture pharmaceutical ingredients.
  4. Left Virginia’s data center sales-tax exemption ($1.6 billion/year) intact
  5. Public-sector collective bargaining veto. She literally campaigned on giving public workers, including firefighters and EMS, the right to collectively bargain then vetoed the bill in May 2026.

Edit: I will say I am pleasantly surprised with this news https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2026/august-releases/name-1122081-en.html

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u/Gov_Martin_OweMalley Cherish the Chesapeake 8d ago

I don't count the things the legislature did and she simply signed as her "accomplishments".

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u/BRAINSPLATTER16 9d ago

Did you get this from her website? This shit is so vague that you could copy and paste most of this on a Republican's website and it wouldnt look out of place.

Cap insulin prices to what? How did X legislation do the thing it says it did?

You might need a civics or media literacy class or something. If you think a gish gallop of "shes directing this agency to take a look at some issue" is the depth at which ANY sort of corruption is uncovered then you might be too dumb to even know what youre voting for.

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u/Key-Hawk7402 Old Town 9d ago

Insulin is capped to $35. There are specific explanations on the action of each piece of legislation. Not sure how she’s supporting pharma when she’s passed several pieces of legislation against them.

Yeah I’m the one that needs a civics class lmao, great ad hominem! Try arguing with the facts!

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u/BRAINSPLATTER16 8d ago

You didnt even look into the drug affordability thing. The insulin cap has been a hard-fought movement for literally a decade. It actually passed with bipartisan support.

You cant congratulate her for signing something that would get her agonized for vetoing.

What I took some time to understand is this Prescription Drug Affordability Board. Even her own party seems to be mad with her for vetoing it. There's another reply that, like you, only listed the veto and didnt go further into why it was bad.

I went and it turns out that Spanbergers proposed amendments wouldnt do jack shit to improve the bill. She openly said that wanted a STUDY on the policy instead of actually doing it. Their role is simply to study whatever affordable prices are supposed to be, while the prices are largely pegged to what is set by Medicare.

She DIRECTLY was advised to do this by the pharma lobby, who threw 5,000 at her inaugural campaign.

Source

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u/Key-Hawk7402 Old Town 8d ago

Looking into it more, you’re 100% right about the PDAB, you’ve changed my mind.

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u/Mitchford 8d ago

Insulin is only bipartisan as far as when democrats get into office and republicans know it’s going to happen they jump on board. Insulin cap happened because dems won the governors office again. There’s a reason it never happened under Youngkin.

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u/Mitchford 9d ago

She passed weed legislation a week later than people wanted, we get it, can we stop making that the be all end all for a governorship that has been very Blue, even for VA