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In her first speech to a joint session of the General Assembly as Governor, Abigail Spanberger focused on her plans to deal with issues of affordability.
Long-time Charlottesville State Senator Creigh Deeds got a front-row seat, and all of Virginia’s living former Governors were in attendance to witness the history of Abigail Spanberger being sworn in as Virginia’s 75th Governor, and the first female.
That issue will go before voters in the spring. Three other amendments that passed will appear on November ballots.
More than 11 years after the first same-sex couples were married in Charlottesville, the General Assembly is poised to make the right for consenting adults to marry one of four new amendments to the state constitution being rocketed both Democratic controlled chambers of the General Assembly.
The governor said that the state has more opportunities than ever before.
With an expanded majority in the House and an incoming Democratic governor, the party hopes to revisit bills that were vetoed by Gov. Youngkin in 2025.
Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger named two key appointees in her upcoming Administration, one of whom will be Counsel to the Governor and the other named Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
The Governor-elect announced the appointments of Del. Mark D. Sickles as Secretary of Finance and Traci J. Deshazor as Secretary of Administration.
Spanberger said she looks “forward to having the backs of commonsense candidates who listen, lead, and want to actually get things done — not grandstand.”
Governor Youngkin announces an affordable housing initiative in the final days of his administration.