>Look at Bagby's voting record. It's not particularly outlandish. It's basically exactly the current mainstream of the Democratic party, which in terms of bills that could actually pass is virtually identical to the progressive platform. > >The only thing is that he takes money from big business, which is a cardinal sin for a certain set of progressives but which his constituents mostly don't give a fuck about.

That's . . . That's my point.

Bagby is the kind of guy that is perfectly happy to take corporate money and to vote in ways that don't rock the boat for either his constituents or his corporate sponsors. If he's not making the news, he's happy, because he knows that his constituents will keep voting for him as long as he maintains his "community leader" image. He gets votes by going to community functions and by cozying up to pastors—shit like that. He's not going to introduce bills, because what's the point? His constituents don't notice if he passes bills or not. They don't notice that he takes corporate sponsors, either, or rationalize it as "all politicians do it, but he's our politician."

So you basically end up with a candidate that will vote with Democrats unless it's too progressive or it goes against corporate interests (but specifically the corporate interests of his donors), and who isn't going to introduce any useful legislation.

Be careful with e-collar use. It's popular, but positive-reinforcement training should be your first (and preferably only) preference.

I've used James River Dermatology and been satisfied with them.

Brenda's great!

Why don't the voters of RVA just vote in better leadership such that a union isn't needed? 🤔🤔🤔

Meteorological Spring starts tomorrow.

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In this case the employer is the taxpayer. Why haven't the taxpayers of Richmond city voted to raise educators' pay?

Congratulations to them! Hopefully, teachers' and principals' unions work cordially together.

Now if only Henrico and Chesterfield got on board.

Oh thanks for explaining, yeah thats exactly what the area doesnt need.

Most of the pedestal-putters are here to downvote anyone who even dares to hint he isn't the very bestest. The report came out a few days back about the sketchy Head Start stuff—which they can't blame on the school board—and it's crickets. 🤷‍♀️

You're acting like Bagby is a secret social conservative or something.

If we were going to stereotype Bagby's base, it's basically the people that progressives claim we all ought to listen to, but whom they never listen to.
Probably no one has suffered more under systemic racism than the older/traditional black communities he represents it. They have been personally screwed by the system due to their race, and they've are fighting against this.

They don't want their fight for racial equality subsumed into a class war, which is what the progressives/Socialists think has to happen.

Look at Bagby's voting record. It's not particularly outlandish. It's basically exactly the current mainstream of the Democratic party, which in terms of bills that could actually pass is virtually identical to the progressive platform.

The only thing is that he takes money from big business, which is a cardinal sin for a certain set of progressives but which his constituents mostly don't give a fuck about.

> If an employer needs to raise pay in order to attract enough qualified candidates to fill open positions, then they will do that regardless of whether a union is present

Unless they can still turn a profit anyway, in which case they absolutely don't have to if they don't want to.

Don't give him ideas.

I didn’t know anything about these cemeteries so I went looking for more info

https://www.richmondcemeteries.org/evergreen/

I got a Friday the 13th tattoo there with my best friend and they look completely different, even tho the same design was used, lmao. I guess that’s on me for getting a 13 dollar tattoo but it’s supposed to be Virginia and everyone thinks it’s a piece of pizza hahah.

Also I recently saw a bumper sticker that said “I hate all for one tattoo” and I thought it was really funny but I couldn’t decide if it came from the shop as a joke or some scorned former client made them lol.

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Wishing you so much 🍀

I keep thinking I want to turn my content from r/realestate into a website where it's more accessible to the non-reddit population. If it sounds like something you'd be interested in, I have some random bits of it done, but the first person I hired didn't quite get what I was going for.

noooooo

I love the thought of a huge housing development surrounding the grave of a slave owning president who thought that black people just couldn't assimilate if freed.

Stop paying it

Axselle Auto in Lakeside

Curious what people have seen in the Fan... I have no seen now evidence of things slowing - actually quite the opposite with zero inventory