Bathroom bill author unseated by first trans legislator

[r3volution 3.0]

Except that this culture warrior will be advancing the socialist agenda on every level as a lawmaker.

So then oppose him for that reason, and the other way too.

[TheCount]

I think it's amusing that more people don't appreciate that stories like this (i.e. culture war fluff) are intentional distractions.

That's because a large number of people here believe in the culture war and have based their political views upon it.

[brushfire]

First tranny legislator? I dont think so...

[fisharmor]

Except that this culture warrior will be advancing the socialist agenda on every level as a lawmaker.

Roem stated specific goals he has, in particular to deal with Rt 28, which I actually had to drive across last night and let me tell you, holy $#@!, I've been driving in DC traffic since 1991 and I've seen the worst the US has to offer... there are certain areas that we all know about, where you just don't go through there from 6-10am and 2-8pm. And I had no idea that this is a new instance of one of those areas.

Of course this is something that the free market would have dealt with within 4 months of it happening, and of course the state is dragging its feet. But Roem's overarching message for this campaign had nothing to do with SJW nonsense. He won specifically by saying "Look here's this super $#@!ed up thing that nobody is even talking about, and when I'm elected I'm going to make it my business to take care of it, and then leave".

Yes, he said that italic part.

Hell, *I* would have voted for him, back when I still had Stockholm Syndrome.

[Wooden Indian]

Roem stated specific goals he has, in particular to deal with Rt 28, which I actually had to drive across last night and let me tell you, holy $#@!, I've been driving in DC traffic since 1991 and I've seen the worst the US has to offer... there are certain areas that we all know about, where you just don't go through there from 6-10am and 2-8pm. And I had no idea that this is a new instance of one of those areas.

Of course this is something that the free market would have dealt with within 4 months of it happening, and of course the state is dragging its feet. But Roem's overarching message for this campaign had nothing to do with SJW nonsense. He won specifically by saying "Look here's this super $#@!ed up thing that nobody is even talking about, and when I'm elected I'm going to make it my business to take care of it, and then leave".

Yes, he said that italic part.

Hell, *I* would have voted for him, back when I still had Stockholm Syndrome.

I dunno about that. If road repair was winning any races, every $#@! in DC would be making that campaign promise 3X a day.

In a time where white straight conservative males are being targeted antiquated freaks, and mentally deranged leftists are lauded as hip new heros, it seems more likely that this was less about roads and more about their agenda to further confuse and lead astray those with broken minds and hearts.

But yeah... muh roads sounds good too.

[phill4paul]

I dunno about that. If road repair was winning any races, every $#@! in DC would be making that campaign promise 3X a day.

In a time where white straight conservative males are being targeted antiquated freaks, and mentally deranged leftists are lauded as hip new heros, it seems more likely that this was less about roads and more about their agenda to further confuse and lead astray those with broken minds and hearts.

But yeah... muh roads sounds good too.

"Doesn't matter who, vote Blue!"

[William Tell]

Hell, *I* would have voted for him, back when I still had Stockholm Syndrome.

Heaven forbid anyone would dare think to vote for Ken Cuccinelli though. Watch how he legislates, seems clear to me things are going in a worse direction now. Roem won't leave, at least not till he gets a worse replacement. None of these leaches do.

[Wooden Indian]

Furthermore, anyone that believes they're a woman.... while being a man or the other way around for that matter, they are mentally ill broken people that serve as useful idiots for the evil elite.

I won't vote for them anymore than I'd vote for an establishment $#@!.

[fisharmor]

Heaven forbid anyone would dare think to vote for Ken Cuccinelli though. Watch how he legislates, seems clear to me things are going in a worse direction now. Roem won't leave, at least not till he gets a worse replacement. None of these leaches do.

We'll see. I'm still convinced Cuccinelli lost because both sides, for and against him, brought attention to what he actually did while he was in elected offices.
The left said that he used the power of the state to punish people for doing stuff he didn't like under an anti-homosexuality law.
Cooch said he thought the state needed to keep the power to punish people for doing stuff he didn't like, and that's why the anti-homosexuality law was needed.
These days, I think Virginia is a place that kind of takes things at face value. If both sides say "he's gonna arbitrarily ruin lives using a law SCOTUS already overturned", then Virginians are pretty good at weighing that on its own merits.

If Republicans would run people for these offices other than authors of bathroom bills, other than people who want to use anti-homosexuality laws to punish people arbitrarily, then they might get somewhere. It's far too cosmopolitan here anymore to think of this state as some kind of annex from the Bible Belt. If they would stick to issues, the way Roem did, then they would win.

I'm sure it helped that Roem had the backing of a bunch of national leftist organizations. If money is a problem, then local politicians on the right can just as easily tap into national groups like Roem did. But nobody's creating a national "imprison husbands for getting head from their wives" superPAC.

So, sorry, Cooch. The politics you and Marshall relied on are gone. Find something new. Maybe something about liberty that you don't intend to desecrate the moment you're in power. That proved pretty popular once. Got a guy elected in Houston a bunch of times.