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Virginia Democrats vow to boycott event if Trump attends, invoke 'send her back' chants | TheHill

posted onJuly 21, 2019
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Article snippet: Democrats in Virginia's state legislature are vowing to boycott a ceremony in Jamestown later this month celebrating the 400th anniversary of representative government in the country if MORE attends the event. The leaders of the Virginia House and Senate Democratic caucuses issued a statement Friday night slamming Trump and maintaining they may not note show up amid reports that the president was expected to attend the commemorative session. "We will not be attending any part of the commemorative session where Donald Trump is in attendance. The current President does not represent the values that we would celebrate at the 400th anniversary of the oldest democratic body in the western world," the Democrats said. “We offer just three words of advice to the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation: ‘Send Him Back,’” added the statement from Virginia Senate Democratic Leader Dick Saslaw and caucus Chairwoman Mamie Locke along with House Democratic Leader Eileen Filler-Corn and caucus Chairwoman Charniele Herring. The statement underscored the political uproar in recent days over tweets that Trump sent last weekend targeting four minority, freshman congresswomen, controversy punctuated by chants of "send her back" when Trump mentioned one of the Democrats during a rally this week. Democrats have hammered Trump over his recent comments about the group of female lawmakers, known as "the squad," and the Democratic-led House voted Tuesday night to formally rebuke the remarks as raci... Link to the full article to read more

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