Only wish they'd done a little better on Pot reform..s
this is coming in the next two years.
What was the reasoning behind waiting? Could have been a good job and tax revenue generator in 2020
and VA has been arresting (mostly poor minorities) at an alarming rate over the last few years
Virginia prosecuted 46,000+ marijuana cases in 2018almost 20,000 people, most of them African Americans, were found guilty, leaving them with a criminal recordWish they did something to address that
You know how screwed for life you are when you have a criminal record...even a misdemeanor, most people won't even consider hiring you
Just a state holiday...so not really sure that many people other than people working for the state of VA
but it's a start
It does nothing for the poorest percentage of the population whose jobs most interfere with getting to the polls.
That's what I thought, does essentially nothing (getting rid of Lee-Jackson day was a good move tho), but CNN and others ran this as the headline. So many other big deal things were passed
I see it as a goal for federal government and we have to start somewhere
But I guess federal government can’t compel Texas , for example, right?
Not to mention the specter of Supreme Court overriding anything remotely progressive
I don't know how federal holidays work. As a private business, you can operate on any day and compel your staff to work. Any Gov't orgs (fed/state/local), Financial, probably most non-profits all get those days off. So a federal holiday still wouldn't compel most employeers to give the day off...but if it was a federal holiday, I think that close to 75% of the working population would get to take advantage of that.
but not as Jules said...the working poor, as those jobs don't get holidays, PTO or sick days. so they are still disenfranchised. That's why early and votebymail are more important that a holiday imo
I have to believe come November Republicans are going to get wiped out
my schadenfreude might give me an aneurysm on that news
