<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia</a> Senate Candidate Hung Cao (R), a retired Navy captain, dominated in a debate against incumbent Senator Tim Kaine (D), who was selected as Hillary Clinton&#8217;s VP nominee back in 2016.
Cao had numerous standout moments during the lively debate, including his personal comments about illegal immigration and the direction of the U.S. Military.
&#8220;When Vietnam fell, we had nowhere to go, and America had brought us in and my parents waited in line for seven years &#8212; we all did, for seven years to get out citizenship,&#8221; Cao said in one viral exchange about illegal immigration. &#8220;The last thing that my dad had over his bed when he passed away two years ago was his naturalization certificate. I love this country so much that I wrote a blank check &#8212; up to and including my life &#8212; to defend it for 25 years in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and other parts of the world.&#8221;
&#8220;Here&#8217;s my thing to anybody who wants to come here &#8212; don&#8217;t ask for an American dream if you&#8217;re not willing to follow American laws and embrace American culture,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If you come here illegally, then you need to leave, especially if you&#8217;re a violent [criminal].&#8221;
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CAPT Cao: “Don&#8217;t ask for the American dream if you&#8217;re not willing to obey American laws and embrace the American culture.” <a href="https://t.co/YAa4VuQpqI">pic.twitter.com/YAa4VuQpqI</a>
— Hung Cao (@HungCao_VA) <a href="https://twitter.com/HungCao_VA/status/1841623376370032661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
In another exchange, Cao <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6326704943112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> the U.S. Navy controversially using a drag queen for a recruitment pitch.
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&#8220;When you’re using a drag queen to recruit for the Navy, that’s not the people we want,&#8221; the Republican said. &#8220;What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them, and ask for seconds. Those are the young men and women who are going to win wars.&#8221;
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CAPT Cao: “When you&#8217;re using a drag queen&#8230;to recruit for the Navy, that&#8217;s not the people we need. What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them and ask for seconds.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/1sCSZ8AZVh">pic.twitter.com/1sCSZ8AZVh</a>
— Hung Cao (@HungCao_VA) <a href="https://twitter.com/HungCao_VA/status/1841625826430734733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
Cao, who was commissioned as a United States Naval Academy EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), also hit Kaine for failing to get legislation passed.
&#8220;[Kaine] says what he&#8217;s going to do,&#8221; Cao said. &#8220;Honestly, of the 227 bills that Senator Kaine has proposed, only three of them made it through. … That&#8217;s a 99% failure rate.&#8221;
Kaine said Cao was &#8220;completely wrong&#8221; about the criticism. Earning some laughs, Cao shot back: &#8220;There&#8217;s two truths in the world, okay? Never walk into a target store wearing a red shirt and never go against an Asian when it comes to math. Trust me.&#8221;
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CAPT Cao: “There&#8217;s two truths in the world….Never walk into Target store wearing a red shirt and never go against an Asian when it comes to math.” <a href="https://t.co/JCYXUCDRmc">pic.twitter.com/JCYXUCDRmc</a>
— Hung Cao (@HungCao_VA) <a href="https://twitter.com/HungCao_VA/status/1841630611305295938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Senate Candidate Hung Cao Shines In Debate , Rips Illegal Immigration, ‘Drag Queen’ Navy Recruitment

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An Arlington, Virginia public school teacher who made students criticize Israel is the daughter of an imam who served at a mosque where 9/11 hijackers worshipped.
Shayma Al-Hanooti, who teaches English at Washington-Liberty High School, is the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hanooti. From 1995 to 1999, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hanooti served as imam at Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church. The mosque has ties to a number of al Qaeda terrorists, including two of the 9/11 hijackers and Anwar al-Awlaki.
Documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and shared with The Daily Wire reveal that the younger Al-Hanooti frequently brings her political views to school, drilling students on anti-Israel talking points and sparring with colleagues about the conflict in Gaza. Al-Hanooti, who has donated to Hamas-linked organizations, implied to students that Israel was committing genocide, sparred with superiors who prevented students from chanting anti-Semitic slogans, and dismissed colleagues who objected to her political statements.
Such political positions are commonplace in the Al-Hanooti family. According to the Center for Security Policy, Al-Hanooti&#8217;s father was an “un-indicted co-conspirator&#8221; in both the <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/423.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> 2008 Holy Land Foundation Hamas Financing Trial</a> and the <a href="https://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1369" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1993 World Trade Center Bombing plot</a>. He was a member of the <a href="https://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judges/hlf2/09-25-08/Ashqar%20Search%201.pdf">Palestine Committee</a> of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, which was established in order to support Hamas.” The elder Al-Hanooti also allegedly raised $6 million for Hamas, according to an <a href="https://www.globalmbresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ISNA__Extremism-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI memo.</a> Al-Hanooti&#8217;s brother, Muthanna, was sentenced to federal <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/case/260/us-v-al-hanooti-muthanna" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prison</a> after being charged with secretly helping Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime, and this year called Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/us/detroit-islam-centre-boss-denies-tweets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;sell-outs&#8221;</a> after they condemned Hamas&#8217; October 7 attack.
In a 2015 eulogy, Al-Hanooti recalled how her father imparted to her &#8220;his unconventional &#8230; approaches to education.”
&#8220;Unconventional approaches&#8221; can be seen in the assignments Al-Hanooti gave her students.
&#8220;What purpose does the use of the word ‘defend’ or ‘self-defense’ have when used by the Israeli legal team?” Al-Hanooti asked students in one assignment. “How does Israel use [sic] the Holocaust to victimize themselves show an example of a logical fallacy?” Al-Hanooti asked students whether pathos or logos is &#8220;the most effective tool for spreading awareness about the genocide,&#8221; referring to Israel&#8217;s actions.
&#8220;These messages reveal comments and behaviors that are disqualifying for an employee in a public school district,&#8221; said Erika Sanzi, Director of Outreach for Parents Defending Education, which <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/arlington-public-schools-english-teacher-agitates-in-district-and-classroom-about-gaza-war-assigns-biased-projects-to-students-accuses-israel-of-settler-colonialism-and-genocide-notes-she-donates-t/">filed the FOIA request</a> into Al-Hanooti. &#8220;She clearly misunderstands her responsibility as a public employee whose job is to educate other people&#8217;s kids, not turn them into activists who agitate for her disturbing world view.&#8221;
Al-Hanooti&#8217;s political pedagogy has drawn the scrutiny of school administrators. On January 24, she screened the film &#8220;Born In Gaza&#8221; for her students, prompting Washington-Liberty principal Tony Hall to ask about the film&#8217;s “use and tie in to [English language arts] Standards.” An assignment shows that she had students write down what the film made them “see, think, wonder.”
Hall&#8217;s email did not deter Al-Hanooti. On January 30, she required students to review “South Africa vs. Israel at The Hague,” an international court case in which South Africa accused Israel of committing genocide, and describe why Israel’s defenses were logical fallacies. On February 25, she had students read the book &#8220;Gaza Writes Back.&#8221;
Al-Hanooti did not respond to a request for comment, and Arlington Public Schools did not respond to an inquiry about what actions it took to ensure that she was not pushing her views on children.
Records show Al-Hanooti&#8217;s views frequently brought her into conflict with colleagues and superiors.
On November 1, Hall wrote to staff to ensure that students planning a pro-Palestinian walkout coordinate with administrators to comply with school policy. Al-Hanooti responded by telling Hall he should not expect cooperation.
Hall replied that, as a school principal, he did not have the power to solve world affairs, and that “students DO need to talk with school leaders because what they choose to do INSIDE a school or during a walk out can be disruptive to the school&#8230; Also, staff cannot lead or participate in a student led civil demonstration on campus.”
After another walkout in December, Al-Hanooti wrote to Hall and Vice Principal Timica Shivers complaining that students were not permitted to say “from the river to the sea,” a slogan that calls for the elimination of Israel.
“We are teachers, after all,&#8221; Al-Hanooti lectured her boss. &#8220;We owe it to our students, staff, families and to the tens of thousands of Palestinians being slaughtered with our tax dollars.”
“Is it appropriate for Ms. Shivers or any other administrator/staff member to tell a student that ‘free Palestine’ or ‘From the river to the sea’ is anti-Israel or antisemitic?&#8221; she wrote.
Shivers replied that Al-Hanooti had misunderstood what occurred with the event, and proposed meeting to discuss how they could help students “feel seen, heard, and supported.”
&#8220;Respectfully, I’m not interested in meeting,&#8221; Al-Hanooti replied.
In February, Al-Hanooti helped organize a panel on Israel-Palestinian issues, and invited a Muslim policy expert from the Middle East Institute to speak. He suggested also inviting a “liberal Zionist” or “more hard-core pro-Israel” speaker to create a balanced panel. Al-Hanooti dismissed his suggestion, wondering why they should “continue to provide that perspective.” Instead, she suggested a “Palestinian who has family in Gaza,” and only including a Jew if they were an “anti-Zionist Jew.”
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She also rejected the expert’s proposed title, saying “I personally cringe at referring to this as ‘the Israel-Hamas war in the wake of Oct 7,’” later saying, “that doesn’t adequately describe the settler colonialist genocide we’re witnessing.”
On October 18, 2023, Al-Hanooti used an all-staff email list to tell colleagues that there was “the genocide of over 1 million Palestinians unfolding before our eyes.&#8221; Al-Hanooti made the false claim that Israel had bombed a hospital, and told her colleagues to “channel your energy into learning about settler colonialism of Palestine or don’t say anything at all.”
When Hall wrote to her that he had heard complaints about her abuse of the listserv, she replied “Is your concern that you’ve heard from colleagues … or is your concern the genocide of Palestinians? I’m confused.”
Al-Hanooti used her work email to tell another teacher, as an example of what he could do, that she donates to the groups Baiultmaal and Islamic Relief Worldwide. An investigation by the Middle East Forum said both are <a href="https://www.meforum.org/the-us-charitable-network-that-subsidizes-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tied to Hamas</a>, and the State Department said there is “blatant and horrifying anti-Semitism and glorification of violence exhibited at the most senior levels of” Islamic Relief Worldwide.
On November 6, 2023, Al-Hanooti wrote to the school board and superintendent Francisco Duran, demanding to know why the school district hadn’t issued formal statements on its position on world disputes.
“Tomorrow will be one month since the most recent eruption of violence in Israel and Palestine, and we have yet to receive any language about the active genocide of Palestinians…We are educators! What are we teaching our kids with our silence?” she wrote.
She added that “what we are seeing is the most advanced and violent stage of the settler colonialist project…We know this because this is how our country was founded.”
Every public post on Al-Hanooti’s Facebook page is about Palestinians or Israelis. On October 25, one of her posts was removed for going “against our guidelines on dangerous individuals and organizations [such as] Praising a terrorist attack.” She also promoted the action at the Watergate Hotel while the Israeli prime minister was staying there, in which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/allahu-akbar-protesters-burn-american-flag-rage-outside-netanyahu-speech">maggots</a> were released into the hotel.
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Virginia Teacher Who Makes Kids Criticize Israel Is Daughter Of Imam At Al Qaeda-Linked Mosque

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A school bus aide in Spotsylvania, Virginia sexually assaulted multiple four- and five-year olds with disabilities on the school bus on Thursday, police said.
According to a <a href="https://rrjextweb.rrj.state.va.us/archonixxjailpublic/DetailPages/InmateDetails.aspx?ReferenceID=372868&amp;InmateID=469969" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jail booking</a> from Rappahannock Regional Jail, Miguel Angel Velasquez Velasco was booked for eight counts of aggravated sexual battery of a victim less than 13 years, sodomy, and indecent liberties with a child by a custodian, and is being held without bond.
Spotsylvania Police Major Troy Skebo said in a Saturday statement that school authorities notified the police of suspicions that &#8220;inappropriate touching of a student&#8221; had occurred on a school bus.
&#8220;Detectives with the &#8216;Child Victim Unit&#8217; and school administration immediately started an investigation and obtained substantial evidence that Mr. Velasquez Velasco assaulted three separate children on the school bus on the day of September 26th,&#8221; Skeoa said. &#8220;The victims ages range from 4 to 5 years of age who are students with disabilities.&#8221;
Skebo said Velasquez Velasco is an immigrant who is a legal permanent resident and has no known criminal record.
Superintendent Clint M. Mitchell has not informed the community of the incident. The Daily Wire sent Mitchell questions about the incident at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, but, as of this writing, he had not responded.  
Spotsylvania Commonwealth’s Attorney Ryan Mehaffey told The Daily Wire that the “case is very important to our community and it has my undivided attention.” He said the charging documents could not be released because it is currently in juvenile court.
Spotsylvania is a semi-rural county about 60 miles south of Washington, D.C.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says">Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says</a>

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The wife of Alexander Vindman, the man behind Donald Trump’s impeachment, mocked the attempted assassination of Donald Trump Sunday afternoon at the hands of a fellow Ukraine loyalist.
“No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon,” Rachel Vindman wrote, dismissing the attempted killing of a former president and making light of how he was actually shot in the head two months ago.
“Sorry you’re triggered. I mean no I’m not. I don’t care a little bit,” she added.
Alexander and Eugene Vindman are Ukrainian twins who joined the U.S. military and made their way into the National Security Council staff in the White House, with Alexander joining in the Obama administration and remaining there under Trump as an ostensibly nonpolitical official. After Trump had a call with Ukraine’s president in which he encouraged him to look into Hunter Biden’s business dealings there, the twins sought to use the call to portray Trump himself as corrupt, leading to his impeachment.
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Violence against any elected official should never be celebrated or dismissed. This is now the second assassination attempt on former President Trump in a few weeks. Our country needs to continue to work to come together, as one, and be united against the challenges we face both… <a href="https://t.co/IIXDBHSjc9">pic.twitter.com/IIXDBHSjc9</a>
— Derrick Anderson (@DerrickforVA) <a href="https://twitter.com/DerrickforVA/status/1835435274786255028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
The media portrayed Alexander Vindman as a nonpartisan, career military man who therefore should be taken seriously. In the years since, it has become clear that he was in fact a raging partisan, and that Democrats took the nearly unprecedented action of impeachment over a seemingly minor phone call incident because Hunter Biden was, in fact, criminally corrupt.
The man suspected of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-would-be-assassin-was-democrat-donor-with-criminal-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempting to kill Trump on Sunday</a> was a Democrat who adopted the party’s Ukraine obsession with such gusto that the New York Times wrote about his efforts to fight in the Russia-Ukraine war and bring other foreigners to do the same. 
Eugene Vindman is now the Democrat nominee for Congress in Virginia’s seventh congressional district, a once Republican area that has recently leaned slightly blue. Eugene Vindman stands poised to be a U.S. congressman even though much of his family’s focus has remained on the country of his birth.
The Republican running against him, Derrick Anderson, condemned Rachel Vindman’s remarks on X, writing that “This is now the second assassination attempt on former President Trump in a few weeks…. My opponent,  @YVindman, has called for lowering the political temperature of this country — so will he denounce these terrible statements from his family member and supporter?”
Eugene Vindman posted a comment that refused to express sympathy to Trump by name, saying only “I am deeply disturbed by yet another attempt of political violence in our nation. I am grateful that no one is hurt.”
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Look at what <a href="https://twitter.com/AVindman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AVindman</a> reposts — while his degenerate wife jokes about a second assassination attempt against Donald Trump. <a href="https://t.co/5g9qb4Mo0R">https://t.co/5g9qb4Mo0R</a> <a href="https://t.co/PbRFA9Dmbi">pic.twitter.com/PbRFA9Dmbi</a>
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1835445692661477607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
Alexander Vindman, for his part, unleashed numerous unhinged screeds blaming Trump for his own near-assassinations. When Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita wrote that Rachel Vindman’s comments should be condemned, he replied “I condemn you… Your candidate @realDonaldTrump has incited political violence for a decade.”
He pointed to a 2020 tweet by Trump defending himself against Alexander Vindman’s allegations, suggesting it constituted “harassment and incitement of violence.”
Trump “instigated attacks on legal immigrants resulting in bomb threats. His constant stoking of political violence doesn’t receive enough scrutiny. And the violence he inspires doesn’t receive enough condemnation,” he said. Saying nothing of the fact that Trump was literally almost murdered on Sunday, he instead blamed Trump&#8217;s &#8220;rhetoric&#8221; for supposedly instigating violence.
No one has ever tried to shoot Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, yet Trump has been the target of numerous murder plots.
When Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene echoed calls for condemnation of Rachel Vindman&#8217;s rhetoric, Alexander Vindman responded by calling her a Russia propagandist.
The presence of such people in the National Security Council serves as vindication of Trump’s theory that a “deep state” was undermining him, and has tarnished the credibility of those who cast career government officials as “nonpartisan” and above reproach. 
A large plank in Eugene Vindman’s campaign platform is claiming that it will hurt northern Virginia&#8217;s economy if Republicans win because Trump might enact “Schedule F” reform that would mean a president cannot be forced to keep people who openly subvert his agenda.
“The MAGA movement has made their intentions clear: if they take full control of the Federal Government they will fire thousands and install loyalists into our civil service. If their scheme for Schedule F is enacted, thousands of Virginians will lose their jobs,” his <a href="https://vindmanforcongress.com/issues/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> says.
It is also aimed at advancing the cause of his homeland, underscoring his desire for “supporting Ukraine as they repel Putin’s invasion, strengthening NATO, and working with our European allies to make sure Russia’s aggression does not go unchecked.”
Virginia’s 7th district was for years the home of Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. In 2014, he was defeated in the Republican primary by further-right Republican David Brat, who served two terms before being unseated by Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who won with 50.3% of the vote after positioning herself as more centrist.
Spanberger is now running for governor, but the Vindman family’s conduct positions them far outside the realm of centrism that history suggests the district prefers.

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Vindman’s Wife Mocks Trump’s Near-Killing At Hands of Fellow Ukraine Loyalist

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Virginia and Maryland share a border, a climate, and a proximity to Washington, D.C. But only one has a Republican governor—and it&#8217;s outperforming the other on a number of important metrics.
A letter from Virginia Secretary of Finance Stephen E. Cummings comparing the commonwealth’s finances to those of its neighbor said that between January 2022 and June 2024, Virginia added 259,000 jobs, while Maryland added only 73,000, making it last in the nation.
When it comes to the number of net inbound U-Hauls — which suggests the rate of people moving to the state — Virginia ranked 10th, while Maryland ranked 44th.
Cummings&#8217;s letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily Wire,  was addressed to a Democrat state senator who had requested the comparison.
The letter said under Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Virginia has built up its cash reserves, or rainy day fund, ending fiscal year 2024 with a $1.2 billion surplus and ending 2023 with $3 billion more than forecast. 
Meanwhile, a spending crisis looms on the horizon for Maryland, whose operations were unsustainable and only made possible by draining its existing rainy day fund. 
“The Comptroller of Maryland issued an economic report for 2023 that sounded an alarm for their economic situation,” the letter said. “The Maryland General Assembly adopted a budget in which FY 2025 general fund spending was more than $1.4 billion below FY 2024 levels, the vast majority of this reduced spending was in capital outlay and relied on withdrawals from the state’s Rainy Day Fund to support ongoing spending,” it said. 
“The Maryland Department of Legislative Services estimates that ‘ongoing spending exceeds ongoing revenues in fiscal year 2025 by $485 million. The structural deficit increases to $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2026 and reaches over $3 billion by fiscal year 2028,” it said.
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Bond rating service Moody’s downgraded Maryland to a “negative outlook” in May, writing that “The negative outlook incorporates difficulties Maryland will face to achieve balanced financial operations in coming years without sacrificing service delivery goals or adding to the weight of the state government’s burden on individual and corporate taxpayers.”
“There are clear winners and losers in the US economy over the past decade and, in particular, after the pandemic,&#8221; Cummings wrote. &#8220;Lower cost, business friendly states have captured the vast majority of domestic migration at the expense of higher cost, less attractive business environments leading to growth in population, economies and state revenues available to fund programs while further reducing tax burdens on individuals and companies.”
The comparison suggests that even when it comes to enjoying government services, big-spending Democrat states might be worse off in the long-run, with out-of-control costs eventually coming due. Maryland was forced to cut $1.3 billion from its transportation funding due to its budget crisis, the letter said.
Virginia is a typically Democrat-leaning state that elected Youngkin in 2021. The former business executive is limited to a single term under the state’s constitution, but his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-lt-gov-winsome-earle-sears-files-to-run-for-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears</a>, announced her campaign for governor this month.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blue-states-have-worse-inequality-than-red-ones-new-census-data-shows">Blue Vs. Red: Income Inequality Far Worse In Dem-Run States, New Census Data Shows</a>

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Republican-Led Virginia Demolishes Its Democrat-Controlled Neighbor In Economic Comparison

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Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin ripped the Biden-Harris administration on Thursday after it was revealed that a man arrested in the commonwealth for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-charged-after-allegedly-chaining-up-children-inside-va-home-is-previously-deported-illegal-immigrant-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly chaining up children</a> inside a home is a previously deported illegal immigrant.
Franklin Viera Guevara, 29, an El Salvador native, was arrested in Fairfax County, Virginia, last month and charged with two counts of child neglect, two counts of child cruelty, and two counts of abduction. Police said they found two boys — ages 7 and 9 — chained up inside the home of Guevara&#8217;s girlfriend, 47-year-old girlfriend Wedni Del Cid Rodriguez, who is the boys&#8217; mother.
Fox News&#8217; Bill Melugin reported on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that Guevara was deported in 2019 under the Trump administration before illegally making his way back into the U.S. &#8220;at an unknown date.&#8221;
&#8220;Another despicable crime committed by an illegal immigrant who is not supposed to be here. Too many innocent Virginians have suffered under the open border policies of the Biden-Harris Administration. Local officials in Fairfax County must uphold their duty to cooperate with ICE and keep Virginians safe. Enough is enough,&#8221; Youngkin wrote on X in response to the news. &#8220;Prosecute this criminal to the fullest extent of the law and deport him.&#8221;
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Another despicable crime committed by an illegal immigrant who is not supposed to be here. Too many innocent Virginians have suffered under the open border policies of the Biden-Harris Administration. Local officials in Fairfax County must uphold their duty to cooperate with ICE… <a href="https://t.co/OIUlGCeIjz">https://t.co/OIUlGCeIjz</a>
— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1831783904455598336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The illegal immigrant suspect in the case is currently being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on no bond, Fox 5 D.C. <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/woman-boyfriend-charged-after-2-children-found-chained-up-fairfax-county-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Guevara and his girlfriend Rodriguez allegedly told officers that they kept the children chained up to “scare them” and prevent them from leaving the apartment. Guevara also allegedly said that the couple would leave the young boys alone, chained up in the apartment. According to court documents, one of the boys got ahold of a phone and sent a photo of his chained ankle to their sister, and the sister called the police.
Rodriguez was also arrested and charged with two counts of child neglect, two counts of child cruelty, and two counts of abduction. She was released on bond after her arrest.
Last month, an illegal immigrant from Bolivia — who had been apprehended at the southern border and then released — was arrested in Virginia and charged with seven counts of possession of child porn and possession of obscene material with a minor, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-migrant-caught-released-border-convicted-sex-crimes-virginia-child" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) said that 36-year-old Jose Fabricio Veizaga-Vargas is also a convicted sex offender &#8220;who victimized a minor in Northern Virginia.&#8221;
After his conviction, Veizaga-Vargas was sentenced to six months in prison, but his sentence was suspended. The ERO said that after his sentence was suspended, the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center refused to honor an ICE detainer request and released him from custody.

Youngkin Blasts Biden-Harris Admin’s ‘Open Border Policies’ After Illegal Immigrant Arrested For Allegedly Chaining Up Children

Youngkin Blasts Biden-Harris Admin's 'Open Border Policies' After Illegal Immigrant Arrested For Allegedly Chaining Up Children

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A man who was arrested last month for allegedly chaining two children at their ankles inside a Fairfax County, Virginia, home is an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigrant</a> who was deported under the Trump administration before returning to the U.S., according to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin.
Franklin Viera Guevara, 29, along with his 47-year-old girlfriend Wedni Del Cid Rodriguez, were charged with two counts of child neglect, two counts of child cruelty, and two counts of abduction after police found two boys — ages 7 and 9 — chained to a post inside Rodriguez&#8217;s home, Fox 5 <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/woman-boyfriend-charged-after-2-children-found-chained-up-fairfax-county-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Rodriguez is the mother of the boys.
Melugin reported on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed to Fox News that Guevara is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. ICE said that Guevara was arrested in November 2018 after illegally crossing the southern border near McAllen, Texas, and deported in February 2019.
&#8220;Viera unlawfully re-entered the United States on an unknown date, at an unknown location and without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by a U.S. immigration official,&#8221; ICE said in a statement. &#8220;Fairfax County Police arrested Viera Aug. 16 for two counts of child abuse/neglect: reckless disregard for life, two counts of child endangerment while in one’s custody, and two counts of child abduction: by force. Later that day, ERO Washington, D.C. lodged an immigration detainer against Viera with the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.&#8221;
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NEW: ICE confirms to <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> that the suspect charged in Fairfax County, VA in a horrific child abuse case where two boys, ages 7 &amp; 9, were found chained at the ankles, is a Salvadoran illegal alien who was previously deported in 2019, but re-entered as a gotaway at an unknown… <a href="https://t.co/gyXdIoP0Vo">pic.twitter.com/gyXdIoP0Vo</a>
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1831765919397445706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Officers were called to investigate potential child neglect at Rodriguez&#8217;s home and heard chains rattling in the apartment when they knocked on the door, according to a criminal complaint. After the door was opened, officers saw the two boys with chains around their ankles next to a sleeping cot.
Rodriguez and Guevara allegedly told officers that they kept the children chained up to &#8220;scare them&#8221; and keep them from leaving the apartment. Guevara also allegedly said the boys were left alone and chained up when he and Rodriguez were away. According to court documents, one of the boys got ahold of a phone and sent a photo of his chained ankle to their sister, and the sister called the police.
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Rodriguez was released on bond after her arrest, and Guevara is being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on no bond, Fox 5 reported.

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Virginia Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears filed paperwork on Wednesday to run for governor in 2025, seeking to continue the GOP&#8217;s control of the governor&#8217;s mansion as sitting Gov. Glenn Youngkin is limited to one term.
Earle-Sears&#8217; filing makes her the first Republican candidate to jump into the 2025 governor&#8217;s race in the commonwealth, ABC 8 <a href="https://www.wric.com/news/politics/local-election-hq/lt-gov-winsome-earle-sears-files-paperwork-to-run-for-virginia-governor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), who entered the race last November, is currently the only Democratic candidate running for governor.
The lieutenant governor announced she would hold a rally in Virginia Beach on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Earle-Sears rode a wave of Republican victories in Virginia in 2021, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2021/results/virginia/lieutenant-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">winning</a> her race for lieutenant governor over Democrat Hala Ayala by just over 50,000 votes. Republicans swept the statewide office elections in 2021, with Youngkin winning the gubernatorial election by more than 60,000 votes and Attorney General Jason Miyares winning his election by 26,000.
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Virginia law limits the governor&#8217;s and lieutenant governor&#8217;s time in office to one four-year term before they must step aside until the next election or run for a different position. Before Youngkin&#8217;s victory in 2021, Democrats had won four of the previous five gubernatorial elections in the commonwealth.
Earle-Sears, an immigrant from Jamaica, served in the U.S. Marines before being elected to the Virginia General Assembly in an upset over a 20-year Democratic incumbent in 2001. During her time as lieutenant governor, Earle-Sears has caught the ire of Democrats and the legacy media on multiple occasions.
In June 2023, Earle-Sears, who is black, slammed President Joe Biden&#8217;s appointment of Ketanji Brown-Jackson to the Supreme Court, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/winsome-sears-calls-ketanji-brown-jackson-a-diversity-hire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;Well, what you have is a justice who was chosen because she’s black and because she’s a woman.&#8221;
Earlier this year, Earle-Sears <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-democrats-derail-hearing-after-lt-gov-winsome-sears-says-yes-sir-to-transgender-senator" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to a Democrat male state senator who identifies as a woman by saying, &#8220;Yes, sir.&#8221; The state senator, Danica Roem, stormed out of the room after Earle-Sears&#8217; comment. Upon returning, Roem refused to speak after being recognized by Earle-Sears.
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&#8220;I said something that upset Sen. Roem. Let it be known I am not here to upset anyone,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I am here to do the job that the people of Virginia have called me to do and that is to treat everyone with respect and dignity. I myself have at times not been afforded that same respect and dignity, but in this body and as long as I am president of the Senate and by the grace of God, I will be treated with respect and dignity and I will treat everyone else with respect and dignity.&#8221;

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Democrat-turned-independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed Donald Trump last week, will be on the ballot in Virginia despite his effort to remove his name from ballots in &#8220;10 battleground states.&#8221;
The Virginia Department of Elections on Thursday approved Kennedy&#8217;s placement on the November 2024 general election ballot while informing independent candidate Cornel West that he did not qualify, the Richmond Times-Dispatch <a href="https://dailyprogress.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/elections/virginia-cornel-west-robert-kennedy-jr/article_e0b3f74a-184a-56ac-a7b3-02337c6f8b27.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Virginia&#8217;s election officials said West, a socialist and race activist, did not file the necessary paperwork.
Mark Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, told the Times-Dispatch that West&#8217;s exclusion from the Virginia ballot is &#8220;significant.&#8221;
&#8220;This is one of those things that flies under the radar for many people, but it is a potentially critical factor in the outcome of the election in some places,&#8221; he said.
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In 2020, Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen <a href="https://historical.elections.virginia.gov/elections/view/144567/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> more than 64,000 votes in Virginia, and all other third-party candidates received a combined 19,765 votes.
The candidates who qualified for 2024 ballot placement in Virginia include Kennedy, Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, and Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver. Election officials must still review the forms of three other third-party candidates who could still make it on the ballot, according to the Times-Dispatch. Stein was accused by Democrats in 2016 of taking votes away from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and ultimately helping Trump win the election.
Virginia state Democratic Party chair Susan Swecker wasn&#8217;t concerned with the election officials&#8217; decisions, arguing that neither Kennedy&#8217;s inclusion nor West&#8217;s exclusion from the ballot would affect the results in Virginia.
&#8220;The bottom line is it doesn&#8217;t change anything. They&#8217;re not serious candidates and we&#8217;ve got serious voters in Virginia,&#8221; she said.
Kennedy said last week after suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump that he would seek to remove himself from the ballot in states where he could act as a &#8220;spoiler.&#8221; Virginia, while going reliably for Democratic presidential candidates since 2008, is showing a closer race in the polling this year, giving Republicans a glimmer of hope for a major upset there. Vice President Kamala Harris currently leads Trump by 4 points in the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/virginia/trump-vs-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> average of Virginia polls after President Joe Biden beat Trump by 10 points in the state in 2020.
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Kennedy has also failed to get his name removed from ballots in the battleground states of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-dem-sos-says-rfk-jr-s-name-must-remain-on-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wisconsin-elections-commission-keeps-rfk-on-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a>. The Democrat-turned-Trump supporter blasted the Democratic Party in his speech announcing his campaign&#8217;s suspension, saying, &#8220;In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate, that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself.&#8221;

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin left an NPR reporter speechless Tuesday after the journalist attempted to criticize former president Donald Trump at an event focused on raising awareness of fentanyl overdoses.
First Lady Suzanne Youngkin said at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?mibextid=KsPBc6&amp;ref=watch_permalink&amp;v=525326550011269&amp;rdid=dKIiV4hHAW07QYz7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;It Only Takes One&#8221;</a> event that her husband&#8217;s administration had &#8220;all hands on deck&#8221; for a nonpartisan community outreach program aimed at helping &#8220;the most vulnerable&#8221; overcome addiction. Youngkin echoed his wife&#8217;s point, telling the crowd that &#8220;it&#8217;s time to move mountains&#8221; to fight addiction, because &#8220;fentanyl kills.&#8221;
After the event, Brad Kutner, a reporter for NPR affiliate WVTF, attempted to make the conversation about Trump, claiming that the &#8220;peak in fentanyl overdoses occurred during the Trump administration when the borders supposedly were closed.&#8221;
&#8220;Where does the intersection of closing the border and an increase in fentanyl deaths come into play here?” Kutner asked the governor.
&#8220;Here we go,&#8221; Youngkin said, before laying into the reporter.
“You and I will have nice conversations until I see you trying to play politics on an issue that is really disturbing to me,&#8221; Youngkin said.
&#8220;Their children lost their lives, they lost it due to fentanyl, they lost it because it was poisoned,&#8221; the normally mild-mannered governor barked. &#8220;And it is coming across our border. We all know this. Do not try to undermine this article by playing politics.&#8221;
Data from the National Institutes of Health found that the rate of increase in fentanyl overdoses slowed between 2017 and 2019, while Trump was in office. Overdoses picked up again in 2020 amid government-mandated COVID lockdowns.
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Kutner claimed in response that the Virginia Department of Health found overdoses had <a href="https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/drug-overdose-data/overdose-deaths/">declined</a> each year since 2021, under President Joe Biden was in the White House. But data from the National Institutes of Health shows that nationwide, fentanyl overdoses continued to <a href="https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates#Fig2">rise in 2021 and 2022</a>, the latest year available. Virginia was an exception.
“Do you know how long I&#8217;ve been working on this? When did I become governor?” said Youngkin, who was elected in 2021.
As Kutner struggled to understand a chart, Youngkin queried, “Are you a mathematician?”
“Are you?” the reporter countered.
“Yes, is the short answer,” replied Youngkin, who has degrees in mechanical engineering and business administration.
Read the full exchange between Youngkin and Kunter here:
<blockquote>REPORTER: Peak in fentanyl overdoses occurred during the Trump administration when the borders supposedly were closed. Where does the intersection of closing the border and an increase in fentanyl deaths come into play here?
YOUNGKIN: I&#8217;m not sure you&#8217;re right.
REPORTER: Even in our state, the peak was in 2021. It was rising from 18 up to 2021.
YOUNGKIN: Sorry, who was president in 2021? So don&#8217;t premise a question with a false narrative. We know where this is coming from. It&#8217;s coming across an open border. The Biden administration opened the border and allowed this to happen. And anytime you want to take a deep dive on drug seizures coming across the border go talk to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
REPORTER: Were they seizing less during the Trump administration and thats what was leading to the increase in deaths?
YOUNGKIN: The increase in deaths has happened during the Biden administration.
REPORTER: No, the increase started during the Trump administration. In Virginia they started to go up in 2018.
YOUNGKIN: You premised the question incorrectly. Here we go. What we do know is there has been a systematic effort to bring fentanyl into this country, and at the end of the day it has absolutely rocketed while this border has been opened. And every Virginia parent here will talk to you about what happened to their child. Don&#8217;t try to undermine&#8211;
REPORTER: I&#8217;m not undermining! VDH numbers&#8211;
YOUNGKIN: You and I will have nice conversations until I see you trying to play politics on an issue that is really disturbing to me. Their children lost their lives, they lost it due to fentanyl, they lost it because it was poisoned. And it is coming across our border. We all know this. Do not try to undermine this article by playing politics.
REPORTER: These are your VDH numbers.
YOUNGKIN: Don&#8217;t even try it. 2021 is the peak. Don&#8217;t even suggest&#8211;
REPORTER: There&#8217;s an increase there&#8211;
YOUNGKIN: Are you a mathematician?
REPORTER: Are you?
YOUNGKIN: Yes, is the short answer. 2020, 2021, peaks in 2021. Fentanyl starting coming across the border at an extraordinary rate. It comes from China through California, gets flown into Virginia, trucked up our highways and we seize it every day.
REPORTER: So the decrease that we&#8217;re showing in 22 and then 23, there&#8217;s no part&#8211;am I missing something?
YOUNGKIN: These are overdoses. Do you know how long I&#8217;ve been working on this? When did I become governor? If you want to have an in-depth statistical discussion and decide who is responsible for overdose deaths in Virginia, I&#8217;m happy to go get our secretary of public safety out here and he will take you on a deep dive. But at the end of the day we understand where the fentanyl comes from, we understand that it comes from China into Mexico it comes across our border. It either goes to California and is flown into Richmond, or it comes up our highway system&#8230; We interdict a lot of it. The fact that the federal government has not closed our border and continues to allow fentanyl to come across this border is a travesty, and anybody who tries to suggest differently is trying to make a political excuse for a failed administration in Washington.</blockquote>

Glenn Youngkin Campaigns Ahead Of Next Week’s Gubernatorial Election

Youngkin Slams Reporter For Politicizing Fentanyl Awareness Event

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Thousands of non-citizens and felons were removed from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> voter rolls since the implementation of a 2021 law that has been celebrated as a way to safeguard the state’s elections.
More than 1 million ineligible voters have been removed from the Lone Star State’s voter rolls, Governor Greg Abbott <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-over-1-million-ineligible-voters-removed-from-voter-rolls">announced</a> yesterday. The cleanup of the voter rolls, which was made possible by <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-signs-election-integrity-legislation-into-law">Senate Bill 1</a>, resulted in over 6,500 non-citizens and more than 6,000 felons being removed.
“Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” Abbott stated. “I have signed the strongest election laws in the nation to protect the right to vote and to crackdown on illegal voting. These reforms have led to the removal of over one million ineligible people from our voter rolls in the last three years, including noncitizens, deceased voters, and people who moved to another state.”
“We will continue to actively safeguard Texans’ sacred right to vote while also aggressively protecting our elections from illegal voting,” Abbott went on to state. The announcement from Abbott also noted that the process is ongoing.
In addition to the thousands of non-citizens and felons, the cleanup also resulted in the removal of more than 457,000 deceased people and over 134,000 people who had moved from the voter rolls.
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The voter roll cleanup comes as Texas has become an increasingly competitive state in some recent elections, with Republicans sometimes only winning by slim margins. In the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/results/texas">2018 midterms</a>, for example, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz beat his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke by just over 200,000 votes.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin also recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-removes-more-than-6000-non-citizens-from-voter-rolls">removed 6,300 non-citizens</a> from his state’s voter rolls after signing an executive order telling the Department of Elections to remove “non-citizens who may have purposefully or accidentally registered to vote.”
Gov. Abbott and Gov. Youngkin’s efforts to remove non-citizens from their states’ voter rolls come amid growing concerns that mass illegal immigration could harm the integrity of American elections. Elon Musk has <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-says-democrats-allow-illegal-immigration-build-political-power">accused</a> the Democratic Party of leveraging illegal immigration to grow their political power, in part by allowing illegal immigrants to be counted in the Congressional district apportionment process.

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The board that manages <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia&#8217;s</a> state employee pension system cannot consider a company&#8217;s stance on social issues like gay marriage or climate change when deciding where to invest taxpayer dollars, Attorney General Jason Miyares said Friday.
&#8220;It is my opinion that Virginia law imposes fiduciary duties on the [Virginia Retirement System] Board of Trustees that preclude it from basing investment decisions on environmental, social and/or corporate governance policies rather than financial considerations,&#8221; Miyares wrote Friday in a letter to House Del. Nicholas Freitas (R-Culpeper) obtained first by The Daily Wire.
Liberal activists score companies based on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies and encourage investors to choose targets based on those scores, rather than prospects of profitability. Critics say ESG scoring is nothing but virtue signaling, an effort to reward left-leaning companies without actually encouraging social change. For example, Shell has a much higher ESG score than Tesla, which makes electric cars, but is owned by Elon Musk.
Virginia&#8217;s move could have ramifications across the country. Government employee retirement funds are some of the largest investors in the United States, managing billions of dollars in taxpayer funds. States that prioritize ESG over profitability could see poor returns on investments, straining state financial systems and hurting retirees.
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In recent years, private equity firms like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blackrock-admits-its-bottom-line-could-be-hurt-by-esg-investing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BlackRock</a> and major labor unions have embraced ESG to the detriment of investors and compliant companies. Tractor Supply, Anheuser-Busch, and Harley Davidson have all been accused of pandering to liberal investors at the cost of alienating a broader customer base. Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s flagship beverage, Bud Light, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-lights-parent-company-lost-over-1-billion-in-revenue-after-dylan-mulvaney-partnership-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost more than a billion dollars</a> in sales after it catered to a fringe transgender minority while criticizing its burly blue-collar base.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-attorney-general-sues-blackrock-for-misleading-investors-about-esg-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> BlackRock over its ESG efforts last year, while Mississippi has threatened the bank with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mississippi-may-issue-blackrock-multimillion-dollar-fine-over-esg-investing-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fines</a>.
Virginia&#8217;s retirement fund manages money intended for pensions for state employees and participating local governments and school systems. The state&#8217;s constitution says the money may not be used &#8220;for any purpose other than as provided in law for benefits, refunds, and administrative expenses,&#8221; and &#8220;benefits shall be funded using methods which are consistent with generally accepted actuarial principles.&#8221;
A Board of Trustees is charged with &#8220;ensuring the overall soundness of the Retirement System&#8221; and has a &#8220;fiduciary duty,&#8221; the legal analysis said. Miyares said that &#8220;as commonly understood, ESG-based investment involves &#8216;investors seek[ing] out socially conscious companies and try[ing] to facilitate change in companies to achieve ESG-related goals.'&#8221;
&#8220;The Board&#8217;s investment of trust funds is &#8216;governed exclusively&#8217; by Article 3.1 of the Code chapter governing the [Virginia Retirement System],&#8221; none of whose provisions &#8220;grants the Board specific authority to make investments according to ESG policies,&#8221; he wrote.
Rather, the state code says the board &#8220;shall discharge its duties with respect to the Retirement System solely in the interest of the beneficiaries thereof.&#8221;
&#8220;Adherence to this duty requires the Board to &#8216;exclude all selfish interests and all consideration of the welfare of third persons,'&#8221; the opinion said.
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&#8220;Other Virginians and society at large are not the intended beneficiaries of the VRS,&#8221; it said. &#8220;The sole purpose of the retirement system is to foster financial security for public employees upon their departure from public service&#8230; Other public policy concerns and initiatives necessarily are beyond the scope of the Board&#8217;s authority.&#8221;
&#8220;Accordingly, it is my opinion that the SRS Board is subject to fiduciary duties that preclude it from basing its investment decisions on ESG policies rather than financial considerations,&#8221; it concluded.
Miyares, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, and Lt. Governor Winsome Sears are Republicans, while the state legislature is controlled by Democrats. As Youngkin approaches the end of his constitutionally-mandated single term, Miyares is seen as a contender for governor.

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