{"id":128009,"date":"2024-03-29T03:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T03:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=128009"},"modified":"2024-03-29T03:14:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T03:14:58","slug":"youngkin-vetoes-bills-to-create-legal-pot-market-raise-minimum-wage-in-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=128009","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Youngkin vetoes bills to create legal pot market, raise minimum wage in Va.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/03\/28\/virginia-cannabis-pot-legal-sales-youngkin-veto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) said Thursday that he has vetoed bills to establish a state-regulated marketplace for marijuana and to raise Virginia\u2019s minimum wage, gutting two Democratic priorities a day after opposition to his plans for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/03\/27\/dc-capitals-wizards-capital-one-arena-alexandria-bowser-leonsis\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sports arena<\/a>\u00a0in Alexandria led Wizards and Capitals owner Ted Leonsis to keep the project in the District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Both sets of bills had been widely seen as bargaining chips as Youngkin angled for Democratic support for the $2 billion arena project. Though he had expressed opposition to each, Youngkin had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/01\/24\/virginia-youngkin-democrats-general-assembly\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carefully avoided<\/a>\u00a0using the word \u201cveto\u201d while talks about the arena were still underway.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) said Thursday that he has vetoed bills to establish a state-regulated marketplace for marijuana and to raise Virginia\u2019s minimum wage, gutting two Democratic priorities a day after opposition to his plans for a\u00a0sports arena\u00a0in Alexandria led Wizards and Capitals owner Ted Leonsis to keep the project in the District. Both&#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-128009","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\/128009","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=128009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128010,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128009\/revisions\/128010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}