Elected Governor of Virginia - glenn youngkin

Mr. Youngkin ran to rebuild and reimagine Virginia into the best place in America to live, work and raise a family. Mr. Youngkin is not a politician. He is a homegrown Virginian and has spent the last 30 years raising his family, serving the church, building businesses and creating jobs. He is guided by  faith, conservative values, and an unshakeable belief that Virginia should be the best. He believes we have all been tested. When his dad lost his job, he starting washing dishes at a diner to help out and worked hard to earn a basketball scholarship to pay for school. Guided by faith and a firm belief in hard work, he has spent the last 30 years creating jobs and growing businesses, while with the help of his wife Suzanne raising 4 great kids,

When COVID-19 hit Virginia, Glenn and Suzanne founded the Virginia Ready Initiative, a nonprofit, public-private partnership dedicated to helping Virginians who are out-of-work get the training they need to secure in-demand jobs.  To date, roughly 2,000 Virginians have started the journey with VA  Ready, preparing for a new career and new life. When crisis strikes, Glenn doesn’t just talk – he acts.

Political insiders and career politicians in Richmond are failing our Commonwealth with lives lost, businesses closed, jobs lost, and our basic rights challenged like never before. Mr. Youngkin believes that together, we can bring a new day to Virginia with fresh ideas, shared values, and innovative solutions to rebuild and reimagine Virginia's future.

It's on these values, which we all share - HARD WORK, FAMILY, FAITH - that we will rebuild Virginia to be the best, and that is what he will fight for as Governor. On day one, Glenn will bring  to the Governor’s Office 30 years of successful, real-world business  experience, to rebuild a better Virginia for everyone who calls it home.  He’s answering the call to serve his community. It’s time for a new day in Virginia.

You can view her web site here: http://youngkinforgovernor.com

Executive Orders:

• Executive Order Number One delivers on  his Day One promise to restore excellence in education by ending the use  of divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, in public  education. Read the full text of Executive Order Number One.
• Executive  Order Number Two delivers on his Day One promise to empower Virginia  parents in their children’s education and upbringing by allowing parents  to make decisions on whether their child wears a mask in school. Read the full text of Executive Order Number Two.
• Executive  Order Number Three delivers on his Day One promise to restore integrity  and confidence in the Parole Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Read the full text of Executive Order Number Three.
• Executive Order Number Four delivers on his Day One promise to investigate wrongdoing in Loudoun County. Read the full text of Executive Order Number Four.
• Executive  Order Number Five delivers on his Day One promise to make government  work for Virginians by creating the Commonwealth Chief Transformation  Officer. Read the full text of Executive Order Number Five.
• Executive Order Number Six delivers on his Day One promise to declare Virginia open for business. Read the full text of Executive Order Number Six.
• Executive  Order Number Seven delivers on his Day One promise to combat and  prevent human trafficking and provide support to survivors. Read the full text of Executive Order Number Seven.
• Executive Order Number Eight delivers on his Day One promise to establish a commission to combat antisemitism. Read the full text of Executive Order Number Eight.
• Executive Order Number Nine delivers on his Day One promise to withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Read the full text of Executive Order Number Nine.

Executive Directive:

• Executive  Directive Number One delivers on his fulfilling his Day One promise to  jumpstart our economy by cutting job killing regulations by 25 percent. Read the full text of Excutive Directive Number One.
• Executive  Directive Number Two delivers on his fulfilling his Day One promise to  restore individual freedoms and personal privacy by rescinding the  vaccine mandate for all state employees. Read the full text of Executive Directive Number Two.

Winsome was elected to a majority Black legislative district. No other Republican has done that in  Virginia since 1865: She consequently also became the first (and still  only) Black Republican woman elected to the House, the first female  veteran, and the first legal immigrant woman.

Winsome is a mother, wife and is proud to have served in the United  States Marines. She was also a hard-charging Vice President of the  Virginia State Board of Education and received presidential appointments  to the US Census Bureau (where she co-chaired the African American  Committee) and the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans to the Secretary  of Veterans Affairs.

In addition to her Masters degree, Winsome also built a successful  business as a trained electrician and understands the importance of  helping small businesses thrive. However, Winsome is most proud of her  community work leading a men’s prison ministry and as director of a  women’s homeless shelter for The Salvation Army.

Winsome ran to preserve the Republican Party principles of  maintaining our values of human life and dignity, equal opportunity,  protecting our Second Amendment rights, less taxes, encouraging  entrepreneurship, and educational choice. Winsome understands the  importance of expanding the Republican Party of Virginia to include new  voters, such as building relationships with the Hispanic community and  bringing conservative African Americans into the Republican Party.

While campaigning Winsome stated, "This afternoon, on my drive into Richmond, I passed the First African  Baptist Church —a place of worship organized by freedmen and slaves  —where, in 1865, the first-ever Republican State Convention was hosted.  Now, today, as the first Republican since 1865 to represent a Majority  Black District, I am honored to accept the nomination to be Lieutenant  Governor. From the time my family arrived in America from  Jamaica, we have realized and appreciated the opportunity that the US  provided us: however, we never could have imagined that would include  the possibility of being the second-in-command of the Home of the  American and world’s longest-standing Democracy."

She further stated, “The Republican Party and the Virginia GOP are the Big Tent Party, and  it’s time our Party’s base reflected our collective Virginia values.  We’ll be going to and directly making the case to folks that are  conservative but haven’t realized they’re Republicans, yet. After all,  it wasn’t until President George H.W. Bush made the case to me during  his campaign for President, that I realized it I, myself, was a  Republican."

You can view her web site here:  https://winsomesears.com/

Former Delegate  Jason Miyares is an example of President Ronald Reagan’s "Shining City  upon a Hill." His story begins with his mother, Miriam Maria Miyares, who fled communist Cuba in 1965 with the clothes on her back and no idea  from where her next meal would come. She legally immigrated to the  United States and instilled in her three sons a passionate love of the  freedom and democracy of America. Miyares grew up in Virginia Beach,  attending local public schools and growing up in a middle-class  household that emphasized the values of hard work, love of country, and  service above self.

Above  all, his mother’s story of losing everything she owned to the horrors of  socialism taught Jason Miyares firsthand the truth of Ronald Reagan’s  maxim that “freedom is never more than one generation away from  extinction… it must be fought for, protected and handed on…..”

That truth animates Jason Miyares’ service as a prosecutor, leader and Delegate.​

In  November of 2015, he won the open seat to the 82nd District for the  House of Delegates by the widest margin in the district's history while  becoming the first Cuban-American ever elected to the Virginia General  Assembly. Jason Miyares has brought commonsense conservative leadership  and accountability to Richmond while fighting for fiscal discipline and  government transparency.
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In the  House of Delegates, Miyares has been a conservative voice in Richmond,  standing up against the Defund the Police movement and proudly standing  with our law enforcement community.  He serves on the General Laws,  Courts of Justice and Transportation Committees, where he has worked to  build smarter, more accountable government working on transparency and  regulatory reform.  Recognized as a “Champion of Free Enterprise” by the  Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Delegate Miyares has consistently opposed  higher taxes and regulations that make it hard for small business  owners to expand and thrive. In 2019, Miyares advanced landmark  legislation that makes it easier for small business owners to provide  childcare services as a benefit to their employees. A former prosecutor  (Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney) for the City of Virginia Beach,  Miyares worked to keep our most violent criminals off our streets and  our families safe.​

While campaigning, Jason stated that as Attorney General, "As a former prosecutor I’ve been on the front lines protecting our communities and putting violent criminals behind bars and I know the devastating impact soft on criminals policies have. We need an Attorney General who will work with our law enforcement officers, not against them. I’ll defend the police, not defund them, – and give them the tools to do their job.  In Richmond they’re trying to expose police officers to bankrupting lawsuits for doing their jobs. And in Northern Virginia, they’re pulling police resource officers out of schools."

Furthermore he stated, "Virginia needs an Attorney General who will defend the rule of law and the importance of policing.  I’ll defend our constitution – and oppose left-wing radicals who try to get around it.  We need an Attorney General whose top priority is protecting our communities. Making our communities safe will be my top priority.  I believe all Virginians want safe neighborhoods for our kids. They want violent criminals to remain behind bars. And they want to stand with our law enforcement officers working to keep our communities safe."

You can view his web site here:
https://www.jasonmiyares.com/

John Avoli’s life story symbolizes the American Dream. Born in a  mountain top village in Italy, he came to the United States at age 10,  settling with his family in the small West Virginia steel mill town of  Weirton.
He graduated from Madonna High School, and earned a  scholarship to play football and study at the University of Richmond.  After his 1974 graduation from Richmond, John began a long career in  public education by becoming a teacher and football and track coach at  Wilson Memorial High School in Fishersville.

He earned a master’s  degree in school administration from the University of Virginia in 1979,  and was appointed the assistant principal of Valley Vocational  Technical Center in Fishersville the same year. After four years of  helping run Valley Vo-Tech and serving students in Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County, John was named principal of Stuarts Draft High  School in 1983.

John returned to Valley Vo-Tech in 1987 as  principal. He held that position until 2001. That is when John became  executive director of the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton. He held that position until his 2017 retirement.

His  political career started in 1990 when John ran for Staunton City  Council. He served on the council for 16 years, including 14 as Staunton’s mayor.
John worked collaboratively during that time to  improve life in Staunton. He worked with “great teams” of council  members, city staff and numerous boards and commissions. The record of  accomplishment is well-documented: The renovation of the middle school and elementary schools in Staunton, and a new and expanded city library, Gypsy Hill Park upgrades including a new gym and new  athletic fields, West End Fire Station construction, upgraded water treatment plant and improved water and  sewer lines throughout Staunton, creation of the Green Hills Industrial Park, and much more.

AS OUR CURRENT DELEGATE – John believes in the right to life, supporting public education to include a parents right to choose the best education for their child, supporting agriculture to include agritourism, the right to bear arms, supporting small business, supporting legislation that assist local law enforcement and mental health professionals to tackle the drug crisis, limiting wasteful tax increases, improving Interstate 81, and providing expanded internet access to our rural areas.


You can view his web site here:
https://johnavoli.com/

You can contact his office in any of the following ways:
Email: DelJAvoli@house.virginia.gov

Richmond Office: (804) 698-1020
Pocahontas Building, Room E412
900 E. Main St., Richmond, VA 23219

District Office: (540) 200-8112
PO Box 1942
Staunton, VA 24402