Wish Parker Ageslasto would run. Was a big fan when he was my council person and my brief interactions with him.

I don't know if the governor meant to cause disarray but there was almost no notice at all. They have like 3 weeks to basically decide who will be the representative for 2 years.

this is where i ended up going! with their moving sale it ended up being right at my price point. thank you!

Yeah, I dunno about keeping the state seat while serving in congress, but I think McClellan could probably stay in the state senate until she's sworn into congress. There's only a few days between the special general election date and the scheduled end of session, although of course session can be dragged out.

Firehouse primary on short notice is a less-than-ideal situation. At a glance, it looks like the committee managed to find a location in far southside (Lawrenceville), one in petersburg, one in south richmond (with good bus access), one in north richmond, and one in eastern henrico (just off I-64). Polling locations in every neighborhood are obviously preferable, but given that wasn't an option (for off-schedule primaries, party committees have to arrange their own logistics), their locations seem fairly reasonable to me considering that the most of the population of the district lives fairly centrally and that city residents are less likely to have a car and be able to drive to a distant location. They could have just picked one location and made everyone go there, but they didn't.

Polling locations have been released: https://twitter.com/gmoomaw/status/1602731974581489665?s=46&t=__ePYq5cQMQbDJjS3CnN5g

Go get a sub as a reward after voting!

NGL i thought subs were gonna be involved

Right now, we're 21-18 in the State Senate. If Republicans win in the vacant VB seat (hardly a sure thing), that would be 21-19. If McClellan wins and vacates her state legislative seat, that would make it 20-19, so still a Dem majority in the State Senate.

Not to mention that McClellan would only be vacating her seat on on like February 22nd, which is only a few days before the State Senate session ends. So there would only be a brief 20-19 period of a few days.

> They are both in the horticultural society so I think if you get one you get admission to both for free. > > Edit: maybe they are both enforcing the 90 mile exclusion clause and so I would need both.

They 100% enforce the exclusion clause, sadly.

Really depends on your purposes.

Could you invite the kid out for a solo visit, or solo vacation? Maybe under the guise of giving the parents a break. And then you can subtlety or not subtlety talk about stuff.

What a weird collection of places. I am honestly baffled at the choices and how few there are. I imagine that it might be on purpose

Morrissey says he can keep his Senate seat and be in Congress at the same time.

He's clearly an unreliable source, but if he's right, then I would assume McClellan can resign her Senate seat at a more favorable time (say, after the 2023 GA session).

A new job! Fingers crossed

All in for Jennifer.

Lamont's top donor is Dominion Energy.

Morrissey is Morrissey.

I agree with you. She is an awesome representative and my first choice, but part of me feels safer voting Bagby since he's not in the senate. Tough call and I really hope she comments on this soon, or I may just call her office and ask

Got to skip work for a doc appointment, but at the cost of a lot of testing I wasn't prepared to have done.

I’ve thought about this too because she’s absolutely my first choice, but I can’t imagine she hasn’t considered this. She’s one of the biggest repro rights stalwarts we have in the GA, if not the biggest, and I just don’t think she’d risk being the reason why a ban gets passed. It’s a fair question, though, and one I imagine her office will be getting from a bunch of people. I’m interested to hear what she says.

Super nice, my kids have gone to school with her kids for years

Cool. Yeah that's the worry though. I guess I could call her office and ask. She is very nice in my experience

Okay I’m with you now.

It's literally the bluest district in the state senate so that's not my concern. My concern is any votes that would take place while her seat is vacant. We do not have a large enough majority to be down a D in the state senate

I see when she won her state seat. She won with 80% of the vote.

Topic for discussion: are we concerned about McClellan having to give up her state senate seat and Republicans using the vacancy to jam abortion restrictions through while we're down a senator? This also depends on the election taking place in Virginia Beach where a republican vacated the seat to take Elaine lurias old congressional seat. I'm leaning Bagby because of my fear here