Tag: Jock Yellott
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The Budget Do-Over: A Game of Chicken?
by Jock Yellott Speaking off-the-cuff at a Charlottesville/Albemarle Bar Association lunch on April 18, 2024, Senator Creigh Deeds offered some pointed remarks about Governor Youngkin. The Governor and the General Assembly had just the day before agreed to scrap the budget and the Governor’s proposed amendments and start over from scratch in May, averting a…
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Youngkin Kicks the Can Down the Road on Affirmative Action
by Jock Yellott By partisan votes, the Democrat controlled General Assembly presented Republican Governor Youngkin with HB 1404, mandating affirmative action in Virginia government contracts. Bacon’s Rebellion published a piece that listed the bill as a veto candidate. One of those that would “have the greatest negative economic impact on the Commonwealth.” But instead…
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Email Your Delegate: Kill the Unconstitutional Affirmative Action Bill
by Jock Yellott As a follow-up to “US Constitution Calling Jason Miyares,” published here January 15, 2024: the Virginia Legislature now is considering a bill, HR 1404, mandating “Disadvantaged Business Enterprise” affirmative action in all state government contracting. It’s before the House Committee on Rules. H.R. 1404 presumes people are “disadvantaged” based on their origins;…
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U.S. Constitution Calling Jason Miyares . . .
by Jock Yellott Affirmative action is unconstitutional, said the U .S. Supreme Court last June. But we’ll keep doing it until somebody tells us not to, says Virginia’s Department of Transportation. In some quarters, it seems we’re seeing Massive Resistance to the Supreme Court’s ruling. An especially absurd, and ongoing, affirmative action boondoggle called the…
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Democracy Dies in Drabness
by Jock Yellott Charlottesville’s City Hall used to be open to its citizens. We could go talk to people. Ask questions. Learn. No longer. Front door locked. A guard in an air conditioned box. A citizen has to justify going inside. Where? Seeing whom? Why? The guard calls upstairs to where I’m supposed to go,…
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The Battle Over History Never Ceases
by Jock Yellott Visit the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall, and you will find that the Department of Historic Resources is fast-tracking regulations governing the contextualization of “monuments or memorials for Certain War Veterans.” I object to this fast-tracking. The new regulations will expedite the promulgation of Woke propaganda to litter the Virginia landscape. The fast-tracked regulations…