Glenn Youngkin will, Winsome sears and Jason Miyares are sworn into office today. It marks an important shift in Virginia’s leadership. More importantly, because actions ultimately matter, the three Republicans are already looking to take big steps toward fixing the mess left behind by Democrat Ralph Northam’s administration.
Youngkin will sign an order to end the school-wide state mask requirement on his first day of office. That’s in response to the overwhelming amount of data that masks in schools have been one of the most useless, asinine policies of the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Virginia Governor Youngkin to Lift School Mask Mandate – NBC4 Washington https://t.co/5WgjQfcgJh
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 14, 2022
That move is already drawing backlash from the left, which is the surest sign that Youngkin could receive that he’s doing the right thing. It is not right to keep mucking around with children and causing havoc in the classroom. Masks can be almost useless, while vaccines for teachers are easily available. To be effective, it would have been absurd to attempt to increase the number of children moving to N95s. This requires professional fitting and thorough sanitization.
Further, Youngkin also announced the hiring of outspoken anti-CRT voice Jillian Balow as Education Superintendent, which will hopefully help to rein in the state’s rogue school boards. Clearly, things aren’t going the way Larry Hogan’s administration went in Maryland.
But while Youngkin is making the moves you’d expect, it’s the new Attorney General Jason Miyares that is already causing wailing and gnashing of teeth. He’s replacing Mark Herring, who ran the office in the typical far-left, woke fashion that led to a higher crime rate and deterioration of safety. Herring allowed the many George Soros-funded state district attorneys to run wild.
That’s about to stop.
Virginia’s new Attorney General has just fired the entire civil rights division in the AG office and announced that he will prosecute criminal cases in jurisdictions where Soros DAs decline to prosecute.
He’s also Virginia’s first PoC Attorney general! pic.twitter.com/cLKHvnoNNQ
— Dr. Benjamin Braddock (@GraduatedBen) January 15, 2022
The local media are already attacking Miyares for firing those in the “non-partisan” Civil Rights division, but we all know what the game really was there. It was no doubt filled with a bunch of leftwing ideologues who weren’t prosecuting crime properly and were instead trying to bring about “equity” from a legal standpoint. Plus, each new attorney general clears the house when they start their job. There’s nothing unusual going on with Miyares doing the same.
But it’s his announcement that the state itself will prosecute crimes local DAs won’t that represents the largest shift in Virginia. This includes Democrat strongholds like Alexandria and Richmond. Every single Republican AG across the nation should be doing the same thing; it’s the only way to fight back against the push to “reform” the criminal justice system, not in ways that make sense, but by simply not policing crime and hurting communities.
In summary, this is a great start for Virginia’s new trifecta, and they’ll also have a Republican legislature to help as well. Youngkin and his company will be able to turn the state around if they remain firm.
About Post Author
