Finally, the Racing Commission’s reading of the law is actually insane (overly corporate friendly).

Henrico citizens are many great things but, alas, clairvoyant predictors of the future are not among our many talents.

Any common sense reading of the law leads to a referendum.

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Third, there's been a pattern of statewide Republican officeholders telling Henrico County to go pound sand.

That they don’t get a voice in the case of Virginia Governor Youngkin's veto or that we don’t even get a response from our elected official in the case of Virginia AG Jason Miyares.

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Second, it’s not clear why they didn’t respond as this law does need clarification.

It’s hard not to think he was either being partisan (when this issue is anything but) or he was doing Governor Youngkin and Churchill (the gambling company) a favor.

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First, we asked a year ago!

And AG Miyares' office was essentially a black hole.

They just didn’t respond.

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We will have a lot of great housing legislation this session.

We have to get it over the line!

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It’s why I’ll be prioritizing housing supply again this session.

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