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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."
That’s pretty terrible
Just like the letter I got from trump with my pitiful little stimulus check. Did the asshole have the nerve to sign the checks too?
Was surprised to see he did not sign the checks.
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.
Just $200 for your rights women. That includes your daughters.
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...need a vacation.
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?"
Unless, of course, that is the point.
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.
Fuck it I'll gladly take the rebate and still not vote for that useless piece of shit.
Republicans stopped trying to hide their corruption the moment Donald Trump came down that fake golden escalator
Buy them votes!
Yeah I got it as a direct deposit. I would much rather it went to our teachers and firefighters, as I’d rather have those things funded.
Legal bribery. It's okay when the government does it apparently.
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.
Have an example?
Gavin Newsome approving "inflation relief" checks two months before his recall election.
Give us a link, then.
Go on, so it!
Child, please.
You don't have Google in your country?