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Related: About this forumMeet the lawmaker who protested President Trump at Jamestown
Del. Ibraheem Samirah, D-Fairfax, is just getting started.
Since his eye-catching protest during President Donald Trumps speech in Jamestown on Tuesday, Samirah has moved on to rail against something even more sacrosanct in Richmond: the Virginia Way.
Thats the unwritten code of civility and compromise Virginias lawmakers have long said sets them apart from the quarrelsome mob in Congress. Its what Samirah admits he violated when he stood and shouted You cant send me back! during Trumps speech, and its what he says has enabled generations of racist policies.
The Virginia Way, at the core, is what really keeps us from moving forward at the speed we need to, Samirah said Friday in an interview.
His sudden notoriety Samirah served just five days of this years General Assembly session after winning a special election is a measure of the states changing political identity.
Read more: https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/meet-the-lawmaker-who-protested-president-trump-at-jamestown/article_b9a5de39-c3f9-5fe2-8d57-e8625b450522.html
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Meet the lawmaker who protested President Trump at Jamestown (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Aug 2019
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RandySF
(59,224 posts)1. I think he was just elected earlier this year.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)2. We need more of this passion. Love it!
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)3. I watched an interview of this hero on Ari