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molly 🐶
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RVA dirt is livetweeting a candidate forum for the upcoming special election for richmond city council’s 5th district seat. wish i could’ve been there tonight to hear my friend @DaSilvaRVA!
nick is a brilliant organizer & richmond would be lucky to have him on council. if you live in the 5th district in RVA, don’t forget to vote in the special election! even if you don’t, donate a little cash to help him out!

secure.actblue.com/donate/dasilva
goad is also livetweeting the forum and in having meeting envy. i love a weird meeting.

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molly 🐶
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day two of the trial starting shortly! i expect we’ll be hearing mostly about the issue of attorneys fees today. the plaintiffs are asking for $604,000 from the city.
is there anything less interesting than listening to people argue about cells on a spreadsheet you can’t see? i would submit that there is not.
deputy city attorney has started her cross examination of jock yellott who prepared the documentation on attorneys fees for the plaintiffs. the law does not allow them to collect for fees incurred on issues they did not win.
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molly 🐶
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tonight is the last meeting of the cale elementary school renaming committee. i’ve only been to one other of these meetings and it was... not great!

at the last meeting, we heard from lots of relatives of the late paul cale. they all sang his praises and vehemently denied he was in any way racist.

one former albemarle county student, who attended an all black school prior to integration, spoke about cale denying her the right to attend latin classes (not offered in the black school) at the white school. he later denied her a job.

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molly 🐶
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this extremely normal dude is shouting across the street at me that he recently desecrated my great grandfather’s grave.
i’ll give him the benefit of the doubt - maybe he was already in richmond for something else and he didn’t just drive three hours each way from his home in monterey to deface the grave of a WWI veteran, but it’s still pretty weird.
he shouted at me about how many of my ancestors fought for the confederacy like that was some kind of trump card. buddy, i know it. that’s exactly how i know it’s hate not heritage.
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Thread: 👀👀👀👀

“Wait, why are these meetings at the same time?”

#RICHMOND vs #RVA
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1/7 Yes, the Richmond City Council #RVACouncil should support Councilwoman Kimberly Gray's @kimgray4rva proposal to rename the Boulevard in honor of Arthur Ashe.
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