{"id":62522,"date":"2026-01-20T12:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62522"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:34:21","slug":"elections-have-consequences-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62522","title":{"rendered":"Elections Have Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the Democrats have taken over the governorship and legislature of Virginia, I wonder if the voters are happy with what they are seeing.<\/p>\n

The following list was posted on X:<\/p>\n

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Look for a massive exodus from the Commonwealth of Virginia–one of the prettiest states in the nation. Virginia is my stop-off place when coming home from New England to North Carolina. With the increase in the hotel tax, I might want to reconsider that. Taxes in Virginia are increasing, and freedom is decreasing for law-abiding citizens. Criminal penalties for robbery are decreasing. Outlawing hand-counting ballots will make it easier to cheat in elections, and expanding ranked-choice voting will simply confuse everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the Democrats have taken over the governorship and legislature of Virginia, I wonder if the voters are happy with what they are seeing. The following list was posted on X: Look for a massive exodus from the Commonwealth … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19040,15005,11271,1413,17307],"class_list":["post-62522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-proposed-leglislation","tag-ranked-choice-voting","tag-tax-brackets","tag-virginia","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62524,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62522\/revisions\/62524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}