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Va. Gov. Youngkin?s assertive first week in office leaves Republicans jubilant, Democrats fuming


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Day One

Positivity     41.00%   
   Negativity   59.00%
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SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/22/youngkin-governor-virginia-first-week/
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The challenge led him Friday to issue another statement, which seemed to add to confusion about what will happen when his order takes effect Monday, saying parents should “listen to their principal” and “trust the legal process.”Another executive order proclaiming a ban on teaching critical race theory — or any “inherently divisive concepts” — has the head of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus accusing Youngkin of a “war on Black history.”Glenn Youngkin, first Republican to win statewide in Virginia since 2009, takes office as governor“I was wondering if he would be more like DeSantis or Larry Hogan,” said longtime Richmond political analyst Robert Holsworth, referring to hard-right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Maryland’s more moderate Republican governor. The five most recent governors — four Democrats and one Republican — all used their first executive actions on less incendiary topics: to call for fair and equal treatment of state employees; lay out powers for their chiefs of staff; and call for studies on issues of concern.Youngkin, by contrast, has poked a stick directly into a host of polarizing issues, such as expanding the duties of the state’s diversity chief to include being an “ambassador for unborn children.” Along the way, his national profile has only risen, with Stephen Colbert satirizing his critical race theory directive on late-night TV and the conservative National Review posting a laudatory article about his quick, decisive actions.“I’m suspicious that a number of issues he picked seem to rate more to a national movement, and he picked staff more related to national efforts than to Virginia,” said Del. Ken R. “I am surprised that he’s doubling down on these bad ideas, and I really was hoping that Virginia was far past this, but this administration is taking us back rather quickly.”In some ways, Youngkin’s hard-charging start as governor resembles the first few weeks of the governorship of former governor Terry McAuliffe (D), said Quentin Kidd, head of Christopher Newport University’s Wason Center for Civic Leadership.Both men entered office without any experience in governing, and both began their terms with the assumption that they could push through what they considered to be a mandate from voters, Kidd said.McAuliffe energetically wooed Republicans but soon learned that his main campaign promise — expanding Medicaid benefits to more Virginians — was not going to make it through the Republican-controlled House of Delegates, forcing him to back away from the issue, Kidd said.But Holsworth, now an analyst in Richmond, said he sees similarities between Youngkin and former governor George Allen, another Republican who came into office (in 1994) after a long Republican drought in the top job.

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