Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin announced this evening that he vetoed 48 bills today. Among them are two, passed by Virginia democrats almost entirely along party lines, that would have prohibited the sale of General Robert E Lee and Sons of Confederate Veterans Specialty License plates, and removed the tax exempt status of several of Virginia's oldest historical societies, including the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
His vetoes mean the license plates will still be available and the United Daughters of the Confederacy will NOT lose their tax exempt status.
The vetoes come on the heels of last weeks' decision by the Shenandoah County School Board to restore the Confederate names to two schools which had previously been changed, and as part of a growing push back against the left's ongoing WOKE attempts to erase the Commonwealth's history and heritage.
In a foreshadowing of his decision, Youngkin offered this response when asked for his thoughts on the Shenandoah School Board vote:
In poll after poll, and vote after vote, the overwhelming majority of citizens of the Commonwealth have expressed the desire to end the cultural cleansing and destruction that former Governor Northam oversaw in his tenure, and sent a clear message in electing Youngkin that they wanted to see it reversed. It appears that Youngkin chose to consider the will of the people over appeasing a radical few, joining his fellow Virginia Republicans in standing against the left's cancel culture war.
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