Meet the lawmaker who protested President Trump at Jamestown

[TexasTowelie]

Del. Ibraheem Samirah, D-Fairfax, is just getting started.

Since his eye-catching protest during President Donald Trump’s speech in Jamestown on Tuesday, Samirah has moved on to rail against something even more sacrosanct in Richmond: the Virginia Way.

That’s the unwritten code of civility and compromise Virginia’s lawmakers have long said sets them apart from the quarrelsome mob in Congress. It’s what Samirah admits he violated when he stood and shouted “You can’t send me back!” during Trump’s speech, and it’s 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 year’s General Assembly session after winning a special election — is a measure of the state’s 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

[RandySF]

1. I think he was just elected earlier this year.

[SunSeeker]

2. We need more of this passion. Love it!

[Gothmog]

3. I watched an interview of this hero on Ari