{"id":126390,"date":"2024-02-28T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=126390"},"modified":"2024-02-28T19:11:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:11:13","slug":"don-scott-was-a-fiery-partisan-as-va-speaker-hes-top-negotiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=126390","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Don Scott was a fiery partisan; as Va. speaker, he\u2019s top negotiator&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/02\/27\/virginia-youngkin-speaker-don-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Scott became one of Youngkin\u2019s top critics soon after the governor took office in 2022, saying the Republican\u2019s emphasis on race-related culture war issues such as banning critical race theory called into question Youngkin\u2019s profession of Christian faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The tough partisan approach quickly vaulted Scott to the position of House minority leader when Republicans were in charge. But now that Democrats control the General Assembly, he said, his relationship with Youngkin has evolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI think we have built a rapport unlike we had before, which was no rapport,\u201d Scott said. \u201cWhen I was minority leader, I don\u2019t think I ever heard from the governor. But when I became speaker, we\u2019re BFFs now,\u201d he added with a laugh, using social media slang for \u201cbest friends forever.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Scott became one of Youngkin\u2019s top critics soon after the governor took office in 2022, saying the Republican\u2019s emphasis on race-related culture war issues such as banning critical race theory called into question Youngkin\u2019s profession of Christian faith. The tough partisan approach quickly vaulted Scott to the position of House minority leader when Republicans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126391,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126390\/revisions\/126391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}