Glenn Youngkin in 2021 VA Governor's race
On Education:
Ban critical race theory from being taught in Virginia
Youngkin went on to talk about his plans for Virginia schools, including banning critical race theory from being taught to Virginia students. Critical race theory is an idea that originated in academic circles the
1970s that examines how governmental policies and laws preserve systemic racism. Republican lawmakers in nearly a dozen states have introduced legislation to ban critical race theory in public schools.
Source: Prince William Times on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
May 25, 2021
On Abortion:
Court lets each state make its own decision on abortion
V.P. KAMALA HARRIS: You don't have to agree that you want to or would advocate that you or a loved one would have an abortion to agree that the government should not be making that decision for any individual woman.GOV. GLENN YOUNGKIN:
I believe, as a pro-life governor, that life begins at conception. My job as a pro-life governor in a state in Virginia, where, 18 months ago, the debate in our General Assembly was around whether abortion should be allowed all
the way up through and including birth, funded by taxpayer money. The Supreme Court's decision, I agree with, that this is a decision for states to make by elected officials by the citizens of Virginia.
And each state will decide something different. I think that's the real value of the Supreme Court's decision.
Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
Jul 10, 2022
On Education:
We shouldn't play privilege bingo with children
We saw students being taught that they should view everything through a lens of race and judge one another. We're not talking about forgetting our history. One of the things we have to do is teach all of our history, the good and the bad.
But we shouldn't play privilege bingo with children. We shouldn't teach children that they should judge one another, and one group is privileged and another group is going to find it hard in life necessarily.
Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
Jul 10, 2022
On Abortion:
Virginians elected a pro-life governor; I've been very clear
Virginians elected a pro-life governor, and I have been very clear. I'm pro-life. I do believe in exceptions, in the case of rape and incest and when the life of the mother is at risk. In this case, where Virginia was just 22 months ago was debating on
our General Assembly floor that, in fact, abortion should be extended all the way up through and including childbirth, and paid for with taxpayer money. I have said all along that I disagree with this. And that is extreme. That is really extreme.
Source: CNN SOTU interviews on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
Oct 9, 2022
On Education:
Unfair for biological boys to play sports with girls
I do believe that it's unfair for girls to have biological boys play sports with biological girls. There are sports with segregated sexes for those sports. And those sports should be honored that way. And there are sports where they're not segregated,
where, in fact, both sexes get to play at the same time. Again, there's a commonsense approach here to this. And I do think we have to respect girls as well here.
Source: CNN SOTU interviews on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
Oct 9, 2022
On Energy & Oil:
Energy plan is all of the above, not just renewables
I announced an energy plan which is all of the above. We've got to embrace all of it. It's not reducing an emphasis on renewables, wind and solar. It's correcting an error that was made in the previous administration's energy plan,
which was to exclude everything else. We're going to have to adopt all of them in order to get where we want to be, which is reliable, affordable, and a clean power stack.
Source: CNN SOTU interviews on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
Oct 9, 2022
On Government Reform:
Streamline or cut small business operational requirements
Youngkin's plan to lower the cost of living includes lower income taxes, a requirement of voter approval to raise property taxes, the elimination of Virginia's grocery tax and a one-year suspension of a recent hike to its gas tax. Youngkin asserts
Democratic economic policies have killed job growth. He campaigned against business lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic and pledged to streamline or cut operational requirements for small businesses.
Source: FOX Business on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
Nov 2, 2021
On Drugs:
Legalization a problem, never met user who was successful
[On legalization]: "If there was a group of children that were sitting here and I was talking to them about marijuana I would tell them don't use it," Youngkin said at a campaign event in April. "I've never met anybody who habitually
used marijuana and was successful and I would tell all them the same thing." In a May appearance on CNBC, Youngkin described legalization as "another problem that's going to be dumped at my feet" if he's elected.
Source: MarijuanaMoment.net on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
Dec 11, 2020
On Free Trade:
Supported Trump's trade battles with China
He has also praised the former president's economic record and ran a campaign ad that featured Trump praising Youngkin during the former president's trade battles with China.
Youngkin also barnstormed the state with conservative Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the closing days of the primary.
Source: Politico.com on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
May 11, 2021
On Gun Control:
Trump: Glenn is pro-Second Amendment & pro-America
Less than 12 hours after Glenn Youngkin locked up the GOP nomination for Virginia governor on Monday night, former President Donald Trump barreled into 2021's most competitive statewide election. "Glenn is pro-Business, pro-Second
Amendment, pro-Veterans, pro-America, he knows how to make Virginia's economy rip-roaring, and he has my Complete and Total Endorsement!" Trump wrote in a statement Tuesday morning that was circulated by his political action committee.
Source: Politico.com on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
May 11, 2021
On Civil Rights:
Personally against gay marriage but would support the law
Youngkin says he's personally against same-sex marriage. Late last month, Youngkin told the Associated Press in an interview that he feels "called to love everyone" but, when asked if
that expressed support for same-sex marriage, said, "No." He said it was "legally acceptable" in the state and he would support the law.
Source: The 19th on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
Nov 1, 2021
On Education:
We've got to get critical race theory out of the schools
[On CRT in schools]: "We've got to get critical race theory out of the schools," Youngkin told right-wing talk show host Hugh Hewitt. Youngkin vowed to a far-right media personality, "I'm going to tell you, as governor, we will not teach critical race
theory in our schools." He has more recently pledged to "ban" CRT from Virginia schools on "day one," should he win the election next month. He told Fox News that, critical race theory had "moved into our school system and we have to remove it."
Source: The Daily Beast on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
Oct 12, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Firm offered matching gifts for social justice donations
Less than a week after the police murder of George Floyd, Youngkin's company, sprawling private equity firm the Carlyle Group, put out a press release, signed by Youngkin and his co-CEO, Kewsong Lee, promising "a special match" offer to employees who
donate up to $1,000 to any one of three social justice organizations: the Equal Justice Initiative, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the NAACP.
Source: The Daily Beast on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
Oct 12, 2021
On Homeland Security:
Proposes tax breaks and services for veterans
[On veterans]: "I'm releasing a series of policy proposals to honor the sacrifice of our military veterans, and to make this the best place for our military heroes to pursue the next chapter of their lives," Youngkin said. "These policies are rooted in
my commitment to compete with neighboring states when it comes to veterans benefits and tax treatment, to connect veterans more seamlessly to the many services that they have access to, to create paths for careers worthy of their skills in all fields."
Source: VA Scope on 2021 Virginia Governor race
Jul 23, 2021
On Health Care:
A "sad thing" that Medicaid was expanded under Obamacare
At times, though, he's unequivocal. Youngkin said earlier this year it was "a sad thing" that
Medicaid was expanded in Virginia under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
Source: Virginia Mercury on 2021 Virginia Governor race
Dec 11, 2020
On Energy & Oil:
Shift from fossil fuels will increase electric bills
Youngkin said that the 2020 Virginia Clean Economy Act is "unworkable" and that he wouldn't have signed it. The law set a 2050 deadline for the grid to go carbon-free, mandated that Appalachian Power and Dominion Energy propose large amounts of solar
and wind facilities, and imposed binding energy efficiency and renewable portfolio standards on both utilities, among other provisions.
He said Virginia should "embrace all aspects of power generation--wind, solar, nuclear and our clean-burning natural gas" and warned that accelerating the transition to renewables would result in "blackouts and brownouts and an unreliable energy grid."
He criticized the cost of shifting away from fossil fuels, saying it will increase customers' electric bills by up to $1,000 annually. (State regulators agree that it will raise rates but estimated a slightly lower rise of $800 a year.)
Source: Virginia Mercury on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial debate
Nov 1, 2021
On Energy & Oil:
Climate change challenging, but doesn't know what causes it
Youngkin meanwhile has walked a careful line on the subject, despite a broad scientific consensus that carbon emissions are a primary driver of climate change. Youngkin said that while he knew climate change is a challenge, he didn't know what's
causing it. Asked if "humans play any role at all in the warming of the earth," he skirted the question and called it "one of these topics that, candidly, people are trying to use to divide people."
Source: Virginia Mercury on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial debate
Nov 1, 2021
On Abortion:
Protect the life of every Virginia child born and unborn
Youngkin vowed, as he pursued the GOP nomination for Virginia governor, to steadfastly oppose abortion and roll back restrictions on gun rights. "We will protect the Second Amendment and our right to keep and bear arms,"
he told a cheering crowd on May 11, the night he was crowned the nominee. "Friends, together, all of us, we will protect the life of every Virginia child born and unborn."
Source: Washington Post on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
May 26, 2021
On Abortion:
My religion teaches me protect life before and after
birth
On abortion, he told Breitbart News Daily, "I'm pro-life, and what my religious foundation in the cornerstone of my life teaches me is to protect life before birth and after birth.""These are not squishy issues.
Source: Washington Post on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
May 26, 2021
On Gun Control:
Against red flag laws, universal background checks
[On gun rights]: "I will not sign a piece of legislation that has anything to do with imposing limitations on our Second Amendment," Youngkin said in a Facebook Live interview. He would support rolling back gun-control legislation. Those measures
include a "red flag" law intended to take weapons away from people deemed by a judge to be in imminent danger of harming themselves or others. Others restrict handgun purchases to one per month & require criminal background checks for all firearms sales.
Source: Washington Post on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
May 26, 2021
On Crime:
Rejects "defund the police"; for qualified immunity
Youngkin threw his support behind a number of hot-button issues. He staged himself as fierce defender of the second amendment and pledged to restore voter identification laws. He also supported school choice, pledged to ban critical race theory
from public education and denounced efforts to reform math instruction. Youngkin rejected calls to "defund the police" and end qualified immunity--the legal defense that makes it more difficult to sue law enforcement for civil rights violations.
Source: WRIC ABC-8 News on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race
May 11, 2021
On Gun Control:
Lifetime NRA member, will push back against gun laws
[On the National Rifle Association]: "I'm a gun owner. I'm a lifetime member of the NRA. I understand what it means for the people to have the right to keep and bear arms. And as your governor, we will not just stand back, but we will push back," he
said. "I think one of the biggest problems we have around the Second Amendment is the people's misunderstanding of where the problem is," Youngkin said then. "And the problem is, in fact, with criminals and with mental health."
Source: WRIC ABC8 on 2021 Virginia Governor race
Jul 23, 2021
On Abortion:
Plans to limit his comments about abortion
Republican candidate for governor Glenn Youngkin is on the campaign trail talking to voters. But, he's not answering questions about one hot-button issue. Youngkin declined to answer questions about his position on restoring restrictions aimed at limitin
Source: WVTF Virginia Public Radio on 2021 Virginia Governor race
Jul 14, 2021
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