BREAKING: No Power Sharing In GOP Controlled Senate
By Jason Kenney | Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 | PoliticsAccording to reports, GOP leaders in the State Senate have said there will be no power sharing in the 20-20 Senate with Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling determining the majority. This comes on the heels of Bryce Reeves’s lead in the 17th Distrct growing to 230 votes during the ongoing canvassing.
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Jason Kenney has blogged at J’s Notes since 2001, is the director of RedStormPAC providing online fundraising for Republican candidates in Virginia, and co-founder of K6 Consulting. He is a graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University and resides in Richmond, Virginia.
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7 Responses to "BREAKING: No Power Sharing In GOP Controlled Senate"
No need to share, no requirement to. Last time the democrats felt compelled to, but this time Republicans do not feel so compelled. The GOP also sets with a 2/3 majority in the House of Delegates. The Republicans were tricked into allow the dems to gerrymander their incumbents into safe seats, so now the GOP would be fools to give them anything else. The dems were lucky to have what little power they had this long, but now that is over and that is just too bad. Of course I don’t expect them to go away this easy. They will challenge the vote and claim a 20-19 majority and then claim that their organization of the senate is binding for the four year term. They are desparate, so it will be fun to see them try, but the Republican Lt. Gov. is the presiding officer, so he can help prevent the dem nonsense.
This should improve Lt. Gov. Bolling’s statewide name recognition. How taking high-profile positions on some potentially controversial issues will affect his gubernatorial campaign will be interesting to watch.
Precisely, now everyone will know who Bill Bolling is and I believe they will like him better than the kooch.
This train is rolling and won’t be stopped.
Just one question: Were the Republicans wrong in 1996 when they said the L.G. couldn’t vote on organizational issues or are they wrong now when they say he can?
Actually, I hope the republicans take full control and then deal with the repurcussions of their own actions. For too long they have been able to propose outrageous legislation, safe in the fact that it would play to their base but be defeated in the Senate. No more; they will be free to disenfranchise all of us who do not agree with their agenda.
Fact is, if they move ahead full force on their social agenda, it will mobilize their future opponents. Now, they will be fully in charge. They will have to answer for the destruction of our transportation infrastructure; no one else to blame.
Steve,
Good luck getting an answer out of anyone. No one on this site will admit an error in their or their parties’ perfect history.
SV-I had the same thoughts. But the same could be said for dems who wanted full control then and shared power now. (Admittedly the dems have the higher road now since power was shared then).
That being said these kind of 180 degree turns that both parties do when they are in opposite situation is the kind of thing that turns so many people off to politics. Tweedle-Dee, Tweedle-Dum
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