![]() ![]() Primaries next week won’t just set the tone for politics within the party, but also for Democrats’ wider agenda to combat the success of right-wing Republicans like Gov. “It’s a chance to reset each body from Dixiecrat to ‘corporate-crat’ to a progressive body that’s going to make the state blue forever and amplify the voices of workers,” said Don Slaiman, political coordinator for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26. “It’s a chance to reset each body from Dixiecrat to ‘corporate-crat’ to a progressive body that’s going to make the state blue forever.”įor some Democrats, this year’s elections present an opportunity for a fresh start. With Dominion’s revitalized role in state Democratic politics and “right to work” on the line, questions are cropping up about the limits of candidate pledges to reject corporate money, with the ghosts of the party machine, loyal to corporate power, weighing in on legislative races. At stake is the future of progressive politics in Virginia and what’s to come in major battles over abortion, climate change, corporate power, and, perhaps most consequentially for future elections, labor rights, with a renewed campaign to repeal the state’s “right-to-work” law. Populist candidates are challenging corporate-friendly Democrats in the upcoming elections. ![]() While the Democratic Party no longer accepts large contributions from the energy company, individual candidates and caucuses still do. Next week, Virginia voters will vote in open primary races in which support for - and from - Dominion is again playing an outsized role. ![]() That year, Democratic candidates who rejected Dominion money helped flip seven competitive seats, and the party won control of both chambers for the first time since 1994. In 2019, the state party made its decision official. A slew of upstart candidates running in competitive Democratic primaries also swore off money from Dominion Energy, which had long donated huge sums of money to both parties and used a powerful lobbying apparatus to loosen legislative regulations and enrich its executives. Politicians from the party stopped accepting large-dollar contributions from the state’s most powerful energy company. In 2017, Virginia Democrats tried something new. ![]()
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