ICYMI: Ireland is banning fur farming! 🎉 This ban is a historic moment, closing this cruel chapter in Ireland’s history. HSI welcomes this decision which brings us one step closer to a #FurFreeFuture! 🙌🦊 pic.twitter.com/hJFTNPo1dq
A Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates was pulled over by police Monday after a deputy noticed a woman exit the car he was driving and take some campaign signs.
Chris Hurst, a Democrat representing Virginia’s 12th legislative district, was given a “notice” that he was “driving with a suspended license,” according to the Roanoke Times, after a Radford County Sheriff’s deputy saw a woman “turning over” and “bending over” campaign signs outside a recreation center.
The woman then got into a vehicle, driven by Hurst. The deputy called for assistance and a local police officer pulled the vehicle over. He then notified Hurst that he was driving with a suspended license, but no citations were given, according to a city spokesperson.
The deputy noticed that some of the signs had been damaged. The woman, later identified as Hurst’s girlfriend, Emily Frentress, was asked to return the signs. She complied with the request, local news reported, per Fox News. No other information about the nature of the signs was given by local police.
The city has referred its investigation to the Virginia State Police, who told Fox News that they could not comment on the suspension because the “inquiry concerns an elected official.” VSP said they “can only investigate an elected official at the authorization of the Attorney General.”
Hurst, whose district includes Radford County, as well as Giles County, and parts of two other counties, was elected in 2017 and assumed office in 2018. He is running for a third term against Republican challenger Jason Ballard.
Ballard released a statement to the Roanoke Times following reports of the traffic stop:
I am deeply disappointed that Chris Hurst has decided to end his campaign in such a reckless way. His latest misstep is yet another reason why he doesn’t deserve another term as Delegate. I, on the other hand, will remain laser focused on the issues that matter most to the people of the 12th District. I will always strive to set a good and positive example for my children and the fine people of the New River Valley.
According to The Roanoke Times, Hurst was pulled over in the town of Christiansburg in January of last year, after registering a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.085 percent, just above the legal limit. The outlet reported that his breath smelled of alcohol and he struggled with a “walk and turn” test, but he passed other field tests. He was told to let his girlfriend drive him home.
The outlet reported that field breath tests are not admissible in court, and Hurst’s BAC level was such that by the time he would have been taken to a magistrate’s office for a test, he would likely have been below the limit. It was also within 15 days of the next legislative session, which was within the period of legal immunity for Virginia legislators.
Virginia voters head to the polls Tuesday. Polls close at 7 p.m.
Biden is in Europe for the G20 meeting and climate summit. Psaki did not go on the trip.
Psaki’s statement:
On Wednesday, in coordination with senior leadership at the White House and the medical team, I made the decision not to travel on the foreign trip with the President due to a family emergency, which was members of my household testing positive for COVID-19. Since then, I have quarantined and tested negative (via PCR) for COVID on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. However, today, I tested positive for COVID. While I have not had close contact in person with the President or senior members of the White House staff since Wednesday — and tested negative for four days after that last contact — I am disclosing today’s positive test out of an abundance of transparency. I last saw the President on Tuesday, when we sat outside more than six-feet apart, and wore masks outdoors and at a distance.
Thanks to the vaccine, I have only experienced mild symptoms which has enabled me to continue working from home. I will plan to return to work in person at the conclusion of the ten day quarantine following a negative rapid test, which is an additional White House requirement, beyond CDC guidance, taken out of an abundance of caution.
Psaki posted the statement to Twitter, adding, “Sharing full statement and grateful I am vaccinated and for the amazing Biden team.”
Hello Commenters!
The Gateway Pundit is always committed to ensuring your voice can and will be heard. To reinforce that commitment, we are switching our commenting platform to Insticator. Don’t worry! All you have to do is create a commenting account with Insticator, and then you will be able to link past comments into your new Insticator account. For more information, we’ve written an article that you can read HERE. If you have any feedback or questions about your Insticator commenting account, please email them at: commenting-help@insticator.com.
I have created this site to help people have fun in the kitchen. I write about enjoying life both in and out of my kitchen. Life is short! Make the most of it and enjoy!
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "...truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity--it is simply true and that is the end of it" - Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” - Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
Following in the spirit of Britain's Queen Boudica, Queen of the Iceni. A boudica.us site. I am an opinionator, do your own research, verification. Reposts, reblogs do not neccessarily reflect our views.
"OUR WORLD" 