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The bill would have undone most of the laws Virginia Beach put in place last summer to limit short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods.
Missy Cotter Smasal is challenging Sen. Bill DeSteph in the 8th Senate District.
The move to relocate absentee voting to that space is now on hold after the City Council twice punted on deciding whether to change the address for the central precinct. But Virginia Beach leaders say they would still find another use for the building.
Jason Miyares – Fullfilling Purkey’s Mission for Diversity
Jason Miyares – Fullfilling Purkey’s Mission for Diversity
By Brian Kirwin Guest Post
Anyone involved in Virginia Beach politics has heard speeches of the now-retired Del. Bob Purkey. Anyone very involved has heard them hundreds of times. The supremely involved can recite them verbatim.
One thing Del. Bob Purkey always said goes like this:
“Diversity is the future of this country and the future of this party”
He meant it. In endorsing Bill DeSteph two…
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All around the country, numerous states have conducted voter referendums and considered legislation to require the labeling of food products containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). All of those efforts have failed except in the state of Vermont, where the Vermont legislature passed a law requiring the labeling of food products containing GMOs in that state. Industry trade groups representing food manufacturers have sued the State of Vermont in an attempt to halt the implementation of the law in 2016. Virginia’s version of a GMO labeling bill came during this year’s legislative session in House Bill 1591. House Bill 1591 would have required food containing GMOs to be prominently labeled and would have made it a Class 3 misdemeanor in failing to do so. House Bill 1591 was killed in committee in the Virginia House of Delegates. Kirk Schroder of Richmond's Ellwood Thompson's health food store had a chance to discuss House Bill 1591 with the delegate who introduced it, Bill DeSteph, Jr., a Republican from Virginia Beach and his interest in GMO labeling legislation. Here are some excerpts from that conversation. K.S.: Can you tell me about the GMO labeling bill and why you introduced it? DELEGATE DESTEPH: I talked to some citizens in my district. They were very interested in GMO labeling. You know, we want to know what’s going in our bodies. I’m kinda health conscious and I want to know what’s going in my body. So I put it in. I knew it was going to be an uphill battle. I’d looked up the history of the GMO bills. K.S.: How would you describe the opposition to the bill? D.D.: Well, both sides were well organized. I’ll start with that. The opposition to the bill was pretty logical. It was “hey, we produce one product. We would rather not have to re-tool and set up another line to a second product labeling side." And frankly, I understand where they’re coming from. K.S.: What can people do to support the cause of GMO labeling in your mind? D.D.: They can talk to their grocery stores. They can buy the stuff that has “GMO free” or is labeled exactly what’s in there. Just like gluten free, cholesterol free, fat free. You never saw that stuff 20, 30 years ago. Now people are buying that over the full fat or full cholesterol or gluten stuff. I think as manufacturers start putting it on there, they’re going to see that their product sells over the competition more and more and more.
Ellwood Thompson's Food Advocate Blog at http://ellwoodthompsons.com/health-wellness/food-advocate/blog
A few weeks before last month's vote on the city's first mosque, Councilman Bill DeSteph received a 25-page PowerPoint presentation.
It came from the leader of the local chapter of ACT for America, a group concerned about radical Islamists in the United States, and alleged the proposed mosque had ties to Muslim extremists.
DeSteph, the only council member to vote against the mosque on Sept. 24, later said he had information that the facility was a threat to national security, but he declined to give details. He said he passed the information to the federal government.
That PowerPoint, other correspondence obtained by The Virginian-Pilot through the Freedom of Information Act and interviews show that DeSteph used information from the local ACT leader to help make his decision on the mosque, and that ACT hoped he would be a political voice in Richmond for its agenda. DeSteph, a former naval intelligence officer, is running as a Republican for the 82nd District seat in the House of Delegates.
Since then, DeSteph has mostly refused to comment on the mosque, citing what he calls an "ongoing investigation."
~ The Virginian-Pilot