Weekly Virginia Politics News Wrap from Blue Virginia 1JUL18

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Weekly News Roundup (7/1/18) Below are the top BlueVirginia.us stories from the past week. To support our work at Blue Virginia,please click here. Thanks! Video, Photos from Sen. Tim Kaine’s Busy Weekend Barnstorming Around Virginia Virginia Del. Mark Levine Speaks Out Powerfully Against Family Separation at the Alexandria Vigil for Immigrant Families Dealing with the Pain and the Despair Video: Amid Chants of “Build the Wall!”, Corey the Neo-Confederate Clown Leads Pro-Trump Protest at "Red Hen" Restaurant BREAKING: Virginia GOP Chair John Whitbeck Announces Resignation After Justice Kennedy, What Should We Learn? Moaning Never Changes Anything; Only Voting Does. VA Tech Professor Who Heroically Locked Herself to Pipeline Construction Equipment Says It’s “Insane” to Build Fracked-Gas Pipelines; Urges Northam, Legislators to View Damage Firsthand, Get Accurate Information Video, Photos: “Families Belong Together” Rallies in DC, Virginia U.S. Senate Passes Warner/Kaine-Sponsored Bill to Aid Domestic Violence Survivors and Their Pets BREAKING: McAuliffe Administration Secretly Weakened Water Standards at Dominion’s Request This Ad Against Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) Could Easily Apply To Dave Brat, Scott Taylor, Rob Wittman, etc. Virginia DEQ: Due to Complaints and “Issues,” the “Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project team has agreed to temporarily suspend pipeline installation" We Can’t Be Strong Until We Understand How We’ve Been Weak Culpeper Republicans Denounce State Senators Jill Vogel (R) and Emmett Hanger (R) for Support of Medicaid Expansion in Virginia Video, Photos: Virginia Tech Professor Chains Herself to Equipment in Montgomery County to Fight Mountain Valley Pipeline Video: New TV Ad Blasts Congressman Scott Taylor For Voting To Undermine The Affordable Care Act as Virginians Face Rising Health Insurance Premiums Sen. Tim Kaine Joins Bill to Decriminalize Marijuana at the Federal Level Abigail Spanberger Announces Five Endorsements from National Organizations and Individuals In Our Entire History, Virginia Has Had Only One Democratic Woman — for Just One 2-Year Term -- in Congress. Time to Change That! Sens. Kaine, Warner Demand Wait Until After November Elections to Consider Supreme Court Pick If Millions of Dems Hadn’t Sat Home in 2000, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, We Could Have Had an 8-1 Liberal SCOTUS for Decades Drop Whatever You’re Doing and Save Our Democracy! DNC Chair Tom Perez: “The last Supreme Court vacancy was brazenly stolen by shameless Republican leaders with no respect for American democracy" VIDEO: Denver Riggleman campaigns with White Supremacist in VA-05 Giffords (“Courage to Fight Gun Violence”) Endorses Tim Kaine for Reelection Yesterday’s Virginia Racial Gerrymandering Ruling Could End Up Impacting 33/100 House of Delegates Districts Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A True Climate Hawk Beyer Leads 75+ Democrats Seeking Answers Regarding Allegations Of Abuse Toward Migrant Children In Custody “Democratic” Commonwealth Attorney Thinks It’s “Silly” for Legislators to Speak Out Against Bias in the Criminal Justice System AG Mark Herring Joins Multistate Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy BREAKING: GOP Racial Gerrymandering Thrown Out in Virginia 11 House of Delegates Districts Must Be Redrawn by 2019 Elections 97%-Trump-Voting Barbara Comstock Skips “Meet the Ticket” Event in Her District…with Trump “Mini-Me” Corey Stewart Proposing a Slogan for the Dems’ National ‘Blue Wave’ 2018 Campaign Q-Poll: Tim Kaine (D) 54%-Corey Stewart (R) 36% in U.S. Senate Race New Monmouth Poll: Jennifer Wexton Leads Barbara Comstock by 9-11 Points in Crucial VA-10, Depending on Turnout Model Virginia Politicians React to SCOTUS’ Disgraceful Decision on the “Muslim Ban”  Governor Northam Issues Executive Orders on Paid Parental Leave and Child Care Options for State Employees Former VA-01 Dem Candidate Edwin Santana and His Campaign Manager Launch “A New Dominion” Podcast Ah, Civility! VA GOP Calls for Boycott of “Red Hen” While Embracing Neo-Confederate Corey, "Grab-Her -By-The-P***y" Trump, etc. In Disastrous Hill.TV Interview, Neo-Confederate Corey Stewart Goes Wildly Revisionist on the Main Cause of the Civil War (Hint: It Was SLAVERY!) Landowners Announce “Encampment” in Bath County to Stop Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Preserve Unique Old-Growth Forest Virginia Delegate Provides “Direct Evidence” Campaign Contributions DO “come with an expectation of voting a particular way" Things Virginia Republicans Have Tweeted About the Past Few Days. Things How Republicans Dance Around the Elephant in the Room – and How to Stop Them Cold P.S. If you'd like to help Blue Virginia expand our ability to cover Virginia politics from a progressive perspective, please consider making a one-time or recurring donation. Also, please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in receiving regular updates from Blue Virginia. 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