[Magdalen] Delicious irony

[Jay Weigel]

I was also happy to see that the guy whose fiancee was shot on live tv (and
who was inspired to get into politics because of that) defeated his
Republican opponent, and that the Majority Whip of the House of Delegates
was defeated by a mere youngster, who is a Democratic Socialist.

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, my daughter was just fussing that she didn’t think folks should be
> celebrating this because of the sexual identity issue. She said that would
> be no different from voting for a person specifically because of their race
> or gender.
> I told her that I didn’t think that was *why* most people voted for her;
> they probably just wanted Marshall out. I told her that if I’d been in his
> district, I would have voted for a loaf of bread, if it were running
> against him!
>
> > On Nov 8, 2017, at 11:27 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The interesting thing about it is that she didn't campaign on any of
> those
> > issues. Her campaign stuck to local stuff, like improving highway 28,
> which
> > I gather has been a very sore point with the area for a long time,
> > education, and taxes---stuff people REALLY care about, that Marshall
> seemed
> > to have forgotten in his "crusades". Proves that local issues will get
> you
> > there with the majority!
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I know we aren't supposed to talk politics, but the irony here is just
> too
> >> sweet not to share.  Robert Marshall, has been in the Virginia House of
> >> Delegates for 26 years and has always railed against anything having to
> do
> >> with sex: birth control, abortion, LGBT support groups in high schools,
> >> transgender use of bathrooms that didn't correspond to their birth
> >> certificate gender, etc., etc.
> >>
> >> He has been unseated by a transgender woman.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Grace Cangialosi
> >> Ruckersville, VA
> >>
> >> *"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with
> great
> >> love."*
> >> *St. Teresa of Calcutta*
> >>
>