Virginia Democrats Twice Run Away from Vote To Support Israel

Virginia Dems Run Away From Vote to Support Israel (Washington Free Beacon)

Rather than voting on a resolution that encouraged support for Israel from the state of Virginia, a group of Democrats in the state’s House of Delegates instead chose to leave the chamber for the vote.

The resolution presented by Republican Del. Brenda Pogge stated that a “cordial and mutually beneficial relationship” between Virginia and Israel should be encouraged, and also laid out the case for “Israel’s legal, historical, moral, and God-given right of 55 self-governance and self-defense throughout the entirety of its land.”

The resolution passed by a wide margin of 70-2, with a large number of Democrat members choosing to sit out from the vote by leaving the chamber. The two votes against the resolution came from Democrats Vivian Watts and Scott Surovell.