Stephen Farnsworth
Stephen Farnsworth
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I think the future is going to look a lot like the past. Virginia muddles through with relatively short legislative sessions, and if lawmakers introduce too many bills for the legislature to consider, the ones that aren't going to pass anyway are thrown overboard.
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In many ways, it looks like the Democratic Party is trying to run the same play that propelled Mark Warner to prominence previously.
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His business experience and his connections to Mark Warner could put him in good stead with Democratic Party voters.
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The truth is that it is profitable for private interests to give things to lawmakers. And if it weren't, they wouldn't give them. If it were not profitable for them to put some of their resources in the pockets of lawmakers, they wouldn't do it.
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I think Allen has to be at the top of everyone's expectations right now.
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Virginia prides itself on having a part-time legislature, and so I don't think it's particularly likely that this is going to change.
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The presidential-nomination system favors the unemployed or the underemployed over the fully employed.
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There is a significant interest in letting elected officials represent their constituents as they see fit. And so I don't think that any effort that would limit how many bills a lawmaker could introduce or that sort of thing would necessarily get very far.
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The Democratic Party has long thought that its success is dependent on some support in the South.