Virginia Mega Thread: The Youngkin Administration

[LtNOWIS]

I appreciate the update.

It'll be interesting to see if the WaPo endorsement carries any weight these days. They split the difference on both the county prosecutor elections, and the state legislative elections. In both sets they endorsed some "progressives" and some "centrists."

[LtNOWIS]

Biberaj is much more of a hardcore progressive than the other two incumbents from what I can tell, and has effectively decriminalized a wide range of offenses by refusing to bring charges against them, including hit-and-run, trespassing, and reckless driving under 90mph, among others.

I'm a criminal defense attorney in Northern Virginia and this is not true at all. It's almost precisely backwards. Parisa has transformed Arlington CA's Office from being radically punitive to the most progressive in the state. They offer significant social services in lieu of incarceration for all but serious offenses. This is in line with her constituents - I have found Arlington juries only give jail time for violent crimes now - property offenses are typically punished only by fines. Parisa's office is also well-ran and staffed by very good lawyers. I would be willing to accept a CA job there, whereas I do not think I could ethically prosecute in any other jurisdiction, except maybe Fairfax.

Descano's tenure has been a mixed-bag at best and a disaster at worse. His office is poorly run and regularly has ACA's in roles outside their experience. Their is also an enormous amount of turnover. However, he has been successful in reforming the jurisdiction, and defendants are treated much more fairly than they were under Morrow. Still, I could not blame someone for voting Nuttal, because of how messy Steve's tenure has been.

Biberaj on the other hand..... I won't pretend to know what her inner feelings are, but Loudoun is nearly as difficult a place for a criminal defendant as it was under the hardcore conservative Plowman. Not only has her office not decriminalized minor offenses, they regularly fail to get involved in minor offenses, leaving Defendants at the mercy of the fairly conservative judges. Her office has all of the staffing and competency issues of Fairfax, with someone even more scandals, and very little reform to show for it. She deserves to lose re-election.

Predictions: Parisa by 15-20, Nuttal by 5-10, Lancaster by 10-15.

I wish Fairfax had better choices than Nuttal and Descano.

I don't want administrative chaos and incompetence, but I also don't really want a bad-cop-defending crypto-Republican.

[LtNOWIS]

Nice! Glad to see the DINOs getting culled. Go run in swing districts, if you must be in politics; quit camping out in Safe D seats.

People have to run in the districts they live in. That's in the state constitution. And few people would move from the middle suburbs to the outer suburbs for a part time job.

[LtNOWIS]

Biggest victory goes to Chaz Nuttycombe, who got all 140 seats correctly predicted, despite still being in college. We're lucky to have him in the field.

FWIW Susanna Gibson overperformed the fundamentals.  That was the best Dem result in the state in a Biden +5 seat.

Goochland really almost came through for her😂😂😂😂😂

Thankfully she lost

I hope she rightfully earns Queen of Goochland next time!!

You do realize she pretty unambiguously committed sexual harassment, right?  Like, the porn thing aside; that should be disqualifying right there.

She unambiguously did not. Nobody had any complaints or was subject to any adult content they weren't looking for, except of course for the voters who got porn in the mail, courtesy of GOP activists.

[LtNOWIS]

There was that time Joe Morrissey moved, and the state house leadership removed him from office over residency issues. But that wasn't new information coming to light, it was him deciding to move so he could seek higher office.