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Thomas: Spanberger Fiddles While Virginia Burns

On the median of an intersection near the Capitol building in Richmond, a well-dressed yet disheveled beggar is seen holding a sign: “Unemployed. Will Politic for Food.”

This is the fate awaiting whoever it was that thought it would be a good idea to send Gov. Abigail Spanberger to the 90th annual Galax Old Fiddlers Convention.

I’m not a high-paid political operative, but I know how to read a room. What were they thinking?

Thousands of attendees were there to simply hear music and spend a week at the “Gateway to the Blue Ridge.” Those people are the very people whose gun rights the governor is trying to take away. Those people are the ones who would have been hardest hit by all those sales tax increases she and the Democrat leadership in the General Assembly wanted to levy. Galax’s median household income is about 45% below the Virginia state average of $74,957.

We’ve seen at least 40 different videos of the crowd at the event booing the governor loudly,........

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