02-06-2019, 09:24 PM
(02-06-2019, 09:20 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Yep, one four-year term. It is something that has its ups and downs. So you'd think the obvious heir-apparent would be the Lieutenant Governor, but Herring stayed as Attorney General this time because it has more potential to make a difference. The LG is a part-time position that pretty much just presides over the State Senate. So in 2021, both Herring and Fairfax were going to be vying to the Governorship. Then, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney is also in the mix and has been implicated by Fairfax as the person pushing the allegations against him, the presumption being that he was going to throw his hat into the ring in 2021. There are also accusations against Northam from the Fairfax camp because they presume that Northam will favor Herring for 2021, and if Northam would resign it would allow Fairfax to run as an incumbent in 2021, which would really back-bench Herring.
On top of all of this, the next in line after those three is Speaker Cox. He is speaker because of a tiny GOP majority in the House of Delegates (51-49). The reason the GOP has the majority is because one election in 2017 was tied, and it literally came down to pulling the name out of a bowl.
Virginia state politics is ***** crazy.
Please believe I am not laughing at your circumstances, but this whole situation is a clusterfug of Larry David'ian proportions.
