It was a session when the high cost of housing and closely linked issues of local government powers took central stage, as did Democrat legislators’ bids to test Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s resolve about last year’s vetoes.
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It was a General Assembly session when the high cost of housing and closely linked issues of local government powers took central stage, as did Democratic legislators’ bids to test Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s resolve about last year’s vetoes.
As ever in the 46-day sessions held in state election years, there was plenty of posturing for campaign flyers and ads ahead of contests for statewide offices and the House of Delegates.
But there was also broad agreement to tighten the state’s wide-open campaign finance laws, as a 12-year crusade for legislation under which politicians could not use their campaign war chests to pay personal expenses finally passed.
