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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts) Wed Apr 20, 2016, 04:32 PM Apr 2016

Virginia Senate fails to overturn veto of Confederate monuments bill

The Associated Press
1 hr ago

Virginia's Senate has failed to overturn Gov. Terry McAuliffe's veto of a bill .. to prevent local governments from moving Confederate and Civil War monuments.

The GOP-controlled Senate was unable to muster a two-thirds majority to override the .. veto.

McAuliffe said in his veto message last month that communities across Virginia are having "difficult and complicated" discussions about whether to remove symbols of the Confederacy. McAuliffe.. doesn't believe the state should take away localities' ability to make those decisions ...

http://pilotonline.com/news/government/virginia/virginia-senate-fails-to-overturn-veto-of-confederate-monuments-bill/article_396b9936-afee-5468-aaa3-996fa30c1b9c.html

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So at least two Dems in the house supported the veto? northernsouthern Apr 2016 #1

It looks like several Ds voted with Rs to override the veto struggle4progress Apr 2016 #2

northernsouthern

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1. So at least two Dems in the house supported the veto?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 04:41 PM

Apr 2016

Democratic Party 34
Republican Party 66
68-32

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)

2. It looks like several Ds voted with Rs to override the veto

Reply to northernsouthern (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 05:05 PM

Apr 2016

When an action like this fails by one vote, I always figure there's been lots of backroom negotiating about who gets to vote with the yahoos to save his political skin and who has to stand up for the forces of bright light and human goodness

Proposals to amend the US Constitution, to forbid flag burningm, regularly used to fail by one vote in a chamber

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