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Today’s Sponsor: Freedom Virginia
Freedom Virginia applauds the General Assembly’s budget amendments that will prioritize the middle class. We’re especially supportive of the Senate’s bold action to reform the sales and use tax exemption for data centers. Given the scale of the affordability crisis Virginians are experiencing, we urge all conferees to adopt this measure, and other similar measures, that fund a Virginia we can all afford by closing loopholes on the ultra-rich and big corporations. On that note, we continue to oppose the legalization of slot machine-like skill games and hope that conferees will decide to fund critical affordability measures through fairer forms of revenue generation that don’t prey on hardworking people.
VA SEIU 512
75% of Virginians across the political spectrum support home care workers’ right to collective bargaining. This work matters, but the State Senate removed home care workers from the collective bargaining bill. Home care workers deserve the same rights as other workers.
A Washington County voter has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the April special election on a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow Democrats to redraw congressional districts ahead of November’s midterm elections. The lawsuit argues that the measure is unconstitutional and was adopted through an invalid legislative process.
The suit, filed by Joshua Shiver, names state and local election officials as defendants, including the commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections, members of the Virginia State Board of Elections and Washington County election officials responsible for administering the vote. It cites several of the same points already used in other lawsuits filed.
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