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Virginia: Muslim State Senate Candidate Cries ‘Islamophobia’ When He’s Quoted

My latest in PJ Media: Qasim Rashid, an Ahmadi Muslim who is running as a Democrat for the Virginia State Senate, is enraged at the dirty tricks of his opponent, Richard Stuart. “My Republican opponent,” fumed Rashid in a video last week, “is launching anti-Muslim, Islamophobic attacks against me questioning my loyalty to the United...

believe me or my lying mouth ?

[mistyknighttime-blog]

Virginia: Muslim State Senate Candidate Cries ‘Islamophobia’ When He’s Quoted

My latest in PJ Media: Qasim Rashid, an Ahmadi Muslim who is running as a Democrat for the Virginia State Senate, is enraged at the dirty tricks of his opponent, Richard Stuart. “My Republican opponent,” fumed Rashid in a video last week, “is launching anti-Muslim, Islamophobic attacks against me questioning my loyalty to the United...

[virginiatowncrier]

In the weekly Virginia Republican address, state Sen. Richard H. Stuart, R-Stafford, took aim at a rules change Democrats implemented last week as they seized control of the state Senate.

“Beyond the partisan bickering and maneuvering, the Senate Democrats did something far more dangerous,” he said Saturday. “In their new rules, they empowered a single legislator with the ability to veto legislation by removing it from the legislative process. That means one legislator can control the fate of important legislation, acting on it with neither transparency nor accountability.”

The change gives the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, now Sen. John S. Edwards, D-Roanoke, the power to route to the committee — and not to a conference committee — a Senate bill that has been substantially amended in the House. The rule would not apply to budget-related measures.

Democrats say they initiated the rule because in 2011, House Republicans amended a Senate bill on emergency preparedness, opening the door to the regulation of Virginia’s abortion clinics as hospitals.

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~ Richmond Times-Dispatch

[virginiatowncrier]

A Senate committee on Thursday approved a bill that lets oil and gas fracking in Virginia’s coastal plain go forward, but only after the Department of Environmental Quality develops regulations.

Sen. Richard Stuart, R–Stafford, said he brought the bill because he fears fracking could contaminate a vast aquifer that supplies water from Hanover County up through Maryland, including the Fredericksburg area and the Northern Neck.

Shore Exploration and Production Corp. has leased more than 80,000 acres for drilling in Colonial Beach, Caroline and Westmoreland counties and the Middle Peninsula.

Stuart told the Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee that he met with company executives, and they couldn’t guarantee him there would never be water contamination from drilling activities.

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~ Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star