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Stephen Farnsworth at the University of Mary Washington says Democrats have been strategic in choosing their agenda.
“One potentially fruitful Republican argument would be that Democrats have tax and spended their way into a state crisis,” Farnsworth says. “But many of the things the Democrats have chosen to focus on so far in this session do not involve significant taxpayer outlays, and that strikes me as smart politics.”