Richmond's agenda may take a sharp right turn

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Richmond's agenda may take a sharp right turn

What a Republican Senate means for Virginia
By Anita Kumar, Published: November 9

RICHMOND — Virginia Republicans immediately asserted their new power Wednesday, dismissing talk of sharing authority with Democrats in the state Senate, even though the two parties are likely to have equal numbers of members.

“Make no mistake about it — there is a Republican majority in the state Senate,” Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) said at an afternoon news conference.

Bolling would cast the deciding vote in any tie, giving his party the authority to control the chamber and run its committees. The last time both parties each had 20 members, Democrats and the GOP shared power and committee chairmanships.

If Tuesday’s tenuous election results hold, the GOP will be in control of the executive branch and both houses of the General Assembly, and the tenor of Richmond could turn decidedly to the right.

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1. A Historical Moment

It will be the first time since the American Civil War that the GOP has had control of the executive branch and both houses of the General Assembly...and we all know how that turned out!

Now the independents who helped put McDonnell into the Governor's Mansion will see that he isn't the "moderate" they were led to believe he is.