"Well thank God it's only Virginia!"
Posted on 04/28/2022 7:02:49 AM PDT by cotton1706
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia House Democrats voted Wednesday to remove their caucus leader, months after an unsuccessful election cycle that saw the party lose full control of the state government.
The 48-member caucus voted by secret ballot to remove Minority Leader Eileen Filler-Corn, who previously served as Virginia's first female House speaker, according to lawmakers and staffers who spoke with reporters shortly after the vote.
The membership voted against removing caucus chair Charniele Herring, lawmakers said. No immediate vote was held on who would fill Filler-Corn's role.
The vote on whether to remove the two women came after a campaign led in part by Del. Don Scott, an attorney and two-term House member from Portsmouth. Scott resigned a caucus leadership post, vice-chair for outreach, on Sunday and called for the election to remove Herring and Filler-Corn. He nominated himself to take over Filler-Corn's role and nominated two young, progressive members to serve along with him.
Scott and delegates Sally Hudson and Dan Helmer, whom he had nominated, all refused to comment Wednesday.
Filler-Corn, who served as the first female and first Jewish speaker of the House of Delegates for two years after Democrats flipped the chamber in 2019, conceded her role immediately. She called leading the caucus “the honor of my life.”
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“The vote on whether to remove the two women came after a campaign led in part by Del. Don Scott, an attorney and two-term House member from Portsmouth. Scott resigned a caucus leadership post, vice-chair for outreach, on Sunday and called for the election to remove Herring and Filler-Corn. He nominated himself to take over Filler-Corn’s role and nominated two young, progressive members to serve along with him.”
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So they lurched even further left?
OMG.....just looked....... name’s Eileen Filler-Corn but should be Eileen Children-of-the-Corn......
https://www.eileenfillercorn.com/
Given the fertilizer situation, I doubt there’s much filler-corn available anyway.
He nominated himself to take over Filler-Corn’s role
“and nominated two young, progressive members to serve along with him.”
Good. Double down.
L
“so did he win?”
To be decided.
They have two weeks to fill the post.
My eyes! My eyes!
“So they lurched even further left?”
I think the Democratic party has purged anyone who they would have considered “centrist” or “right wing.” To the rest of us those people would have seemed pretty far left. But to the new Democrats, those left in the party, mildly socialist is extreme right wing. This election just cements the direction the party has already gone.
I’m pretty sure this is not a winning event in terms of any wider election. I’m guessing that people like Filler-corn will run as independents or even as Republicans.
The bad part is that Republicans have all been dragged further left by these events. Politics is like physics. For each action there is a reaction.
“Come on Eileen...”
Eileen Filler-Corn and Bruce (Caitlyn) Jenner could be siblings.
So is Eileen Filler-Corn a relative of Jimmy Crack-Corn?
Always beware the hyphenated women.
No immediate vote was held on who would fill Filler-Corn’s role.
The juvenile in me never gives up.
they must be AOC worshippers
they lost cuz they didnt go far enough left
a winning strategy for..........
.......republicans
- sry, never miss an opportunity to turn an enemy's weapon back onto them.
First female leader.
Well, yah tried. Now, try harder and put someone there based upon merit.
Democrats war on women continues
Ever notice how so many libs have the hyphen?
Eileen Filler-Corn
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