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TexasTowelie

(111,288 posts)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 11:21 AM Feb 2018

Republicans strip Democratic Party chair Swecker from Virginia Compensation Board

Republicans who control the legislature have the task of confirming Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s appointments. On Tuesday, they said one of them wasn’t going to fly.

Republicans on the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee voted to remove Susan Swecker from the Virginia Compensation Board, a small state agency that funds constitutional offices such as commonwealth’s attorney and sheriff and provides them with training.

Swecker, who chairs the board, is also chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia, and Republicans said someone in such a partisan role should no longer remain in a position that the public would expect to be nonpartisan.

Swecker was first appointed to be chair of the three-member board four years ago under then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe. But she wasn’t the Democratic Party chair at the time. She took on that role about a year later.

Read more: http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/general-assembly/republicans-strip-democratic-party-chair-swecker-from-virginia-compensation-board/article_8a8dc111-a606-5735-afef-2740f710d7f2.html

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Republicans strip Democratic Party chair Swecker from Virginia Compensation Board (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2018 OP
Literally, everything that is done in government, is breaking down to Are you a Dem or Republican. riversedge Feb 2018 #1
And a lot of what is done in life... Ferrets are Cool Feb 2018 #2
That is sad IMHO. riversedge Feb 2018 #3
It is, but it is the world we live in now.... Ferrets are Cool Feb 2018 #4

riversedge

(69,709 posts)
1. Literally, everything that is done in government, is breaking down to Are you a Dem or Republican.
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 11:25 AM
Feb 2018

we, as a nation, just can not continue to function like this. something has to give--soon.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,059 posts)
2. And a lot of what is done in life...
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 11:43 AM
Feb 2018

in my area of the South, as I'm sure in a lot of places in the U.S, if you run a business, it is a liability to indicate which side of the political aisle you are standing.

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