Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (5/24/26)

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Leader Jeffries Vows to Restore 10D-1R Map in VA “in advance of 2028”; Gov. Spanberger signed 1,132 bills ("the donut") also issued some major vetoes ("the hole"); NextEra wants to buy Dominion Energy

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• Ivy Main Asks, “Why should we…be stuck with 30 years of paying for a honking-big, fracked-gas-burning, climate-change-driving monstrosity” to power “the tech companies’…advanced chatbots?”

• Report: Gas Prices in Hampton Roads Jump as Jen Kiggans and Congressional Republicans Abruptly Cancel Iran War Vote and Leave Washington

• Audio: VA Del. Paul Krizek Optimistic on Getting a Budget, Data Centers Compromise, Cannabis Legislation, Collective Bargaining

• Video: Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Expresses Frustration with “Haphazardly Done, Incomplete” DNC “Autopsy” Report, Chair Ken Martin

• Fact Check: Governor Spanberger’s Veto Statement and the Misinformation Around the Affordable Medicine Act

• In Letter to Acting AG Todd Blanche, etc., Sen. Mark Warner “Demands Transparency About $1.776 Billion [Trump] Slush Fund”

• Video: On 1-Year Anniversary of Rep. Gerry Connolly’s Death from Esophageal Cancer, Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Says It’s a “hard day for all of us who loved him”

• Video: VA Speaker Scott Says Dems Shouldn’t Get Into “Tit-for-Tat,” Should Focus on the “Donut, Not the Hole,” Including Gov. Spanberger Signing “1,132 Bills” This Session

• Video: Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Pledges “strong efforts [by Democrats] to block a single dollar of funds at Treasury from going into [Trump’s ‘absolutely outrageous’ $1.8B] slush fund”

• Video: Sen. Mark Warner on Some of Trump’s $1.8B Slush Fund Going to 1/6/21 Rioters – “is there no line that goes too far?”

• Gov. Abigail Spanberger Signs Bills Prohibiting Law Enforcement from Wearing Facial Coverings; Executive Order with Guidance, Restrictions on Federal Immigration Enforcement in Virginia

• Sen. Tim Kaine on US Senate Advancing War Powers Resolution on Iran: “I’m grateful that today, enough of my colleagues stood up for the Constitution”

• Gov. Spanberger Issues Vetoes: Class Action Lawsuits, Retail Marketplace for Cannabis Products, Prescription Drug Affordability, etc.

• Video: Gov. Abigail Spanberger Says “the number of pro-labor, pro-worker, pro-Virginia bills that I have signed into law is substantial, consquential, an I am deeply proud of my record”

• Video: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Vows, After “egregious decision by [SCOVA],” to Restore 10D-1R Map in Virginia “in advance of 2028”

• Report: Inflation and Grocery Prices Spike Due to Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02)’s and Donald Trump’s Iran War

• Video: After Interviewing Last Prison Guard to See Jeffrey Epstein Alive, Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10) Says “I do believe [Epstein] did commit suicide”

• Cleantech Guru Jigar Shah on NextEra Buying Dominion Energy: “The biggest clean energy consolidation in American history may happen on Donald Trump’s watch”

• If the NY Times/Siena Poll (D+11 Among RVs; D+14 Among “Almost Certain/Very Likely” to Vote) Is Correct, VA Dems Could Pick Up Three U.S. House Seats in November

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