All posts tagged "Youngkin"

He's saying he's not running for president but if he did he is growing a large war chest that rivals Donald Trump's.

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's political action committee, Spirit of Virginia, raked in another $2.2 million from many out-of-state donors from Texas, Florida, and New York among others who gifted $10,000 sums — bringing his entire fundraising since 2021 to $30 million.

Back in April, one donor, Palm Beef, Floridian Thomas Petterfy gave $1 million to Spirit of Virginia. ...

Virginia's two Democratic senators are urging the Justice Department to launch a Voting Rights Act investigation into Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin after his administration was accused of improperly removing hundreds of people from the commonwealth voter rolls, reported The Washington Post on Tuesday.

The letter, signed by Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine as well as several other lawmakers on Friday, urges Attorney General Merrick Garland to probe why 270 fully qualified Virginia voters were "purged," saying, “This widespread error creates an enormous barrier to the democratic process for these affected Virginians while early voting has already begun for this November’s election.” This comes after several other Virginia officials have demanded an investigation.

Election officials working in the Youngkin administration have said that the removals were an innocent mistake and that the voters will be restored before the November 7 legislative elections in Virginia, which will decide control of both chambers and determine how much power the Republican governor has to enact a more culturally conservative agenda in the last two years of his term....

A longtime spokesperson for a school district that had been attacked by Gov. Glenn Youngkin in the 2021 gubernatorial campaign was acquitted today of a perjury charge brought by Virginia’s Republican attorney general at Youngkin’s request.

“The jury took only about two hours to deliberate before acquitting Loudoun County Public Schools Public Information Officer Wayde Byard on the sole perjury count lodged against him by a special grand jury,” the Associated Press reported.

“The perjury case was the first prosecution to go to trial from the special grand jury's probe, commissioned by Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares at the request of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.”...