Youngkin fights to make Virginia the real freedom state

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/youngkin-fights-to-
make-virginia-the-real-freedom-state

As part of his effort to supplant Vice President Kamala Harris as heir
apparent to the leadership of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-
CA) appeared at last week’s Republican presidential primary debate with a
message that his was the “freedom state.”

“We believe in these crazy things here called free speech, gun safety,
healthcare, Social Security, and climate change,” Newsom posted, not
bothering to explain how some of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws
are evidence of “freedom.”

It’s not clear how “climate change” and “social security” can be thought
of as freedoms, either. But one would have to have a weird definition of
freedom to associate it at all with California. Under Newsom’s leadership,
California locked down citizens the longest during COVID, closed public
schools, playgrounds, and beaches, and even denied people their First
Amendment right to worship. California is one of the most ban-happy states
in the union.

It bans drinking soda through a plastic straw. The sale of caffeinated
beer is banned, as is the circus, foie gras, fracking, fur sales,
gasoline-powered lawn equipment, mowers, blowers, generators, and power
washers. If you want to sell toys to children, your store must have a
gender-neutral section. Even selling toys in California is illegal unless
it is done along lines approved by the left-wing gender police.

California’s biggest ban of all is being implemented slowly and stealthily
so the natives can't feel their freedoms being extinguished. By 2035, it
will be illegal in California to buy a new gasoline-powered car. The state
most associated with driving on a highway with the top down and the wind
in your hair is banning the most popular type of vehicle.

Democrats want to export California's high-priced, restrictive, dystopian
nightmare to all other states nationwide. That’s what happened to Virginia
in 2021 when Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed a law mandating the
imposition of all California's automobile regulations. Virginia didn’t
even pass its own law considering how a ban on combustion engines would
affect the state. Democrats just blindly tied themselves to California’s
regulatory overkill.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) wants to repeal this monkey-see, monkey-do law,
and he is making it the centerpiece of his effort to help Republicans win
the state Senate and maintain control of the state House.

"What the previous administration did was outsource to California
bureaucrats that aren't even elected by Virginians to dictate whether we
buy cars that are powered by electricity or by fossil fuels," Youngkin
said this year. "This should be a decision taken by Virginians."

That is right. Virginians, not Californians, should decide which cars
Virginians may buy, and judging by how much less Virginians ban things,
Youngkin should, if he wins this November, declare Virginia the nation’s
true “freedom state.”


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