Youngkin is the only politician to have done something like this. Really. I mean, seriously.
Without a doubt, no Dem has done this. If you disagree, you're spreading disinformation.
I work in local government and my boss would lose her everloving shit if anyone suggested something like this. Buuut I’m also pretty sure no one outside of my office (which, to be fair, handles the elections) ever stops to think, “hey could this be construed as encouraging people to vote some type of way?” So basically, this could, and probably is, a way to not-so-subtly buy votes, but it could also be people in charge not using their goddamn heads for one fucking second to think about the optics.
I feel like this is so obviously going to be seen this way that even if you have one myopic idiot who just wasn’t thinking, there’s no way those goes through the entire team without someone noticing. No way at all.
Oh yeah, I would be 0% surprised, especially given the letter with it. Youngkin is a piece of shit. It’s just that there are also a surprising number of things like this that are suggested with zero sense of how it would play that get stopped behind the scenes because some of the people behind the scenes try not to be pieces of shit.
Buuut I’m also pretty sure no one outside of my office (which, to be fair, handles the elections) ever stops to think, “hey could this be construed as encouraging people to vote some type of way?”
The checks, according to Virginia residents who have received them in the mail, are being sent with a note that specifically credits Youngkin for the money, telling the taxpayer they are “receiving this rebate because Governor Glenn Youngkin recently signed a bill passed by the 2023 Virginia General Assembly.”
Was pissed when I got mine. The letter did not name or provide any details about the bill. Just - here’s $200 because of Glen Youngkin. I should donate it to a Democrat in a swing district.
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