Statehouse One-Acts: He’s Just Glenn

Is it his destiny to live and die a life of red-vested fragility

Because I’m me, I just couldn’t close out the week without a little Virginia update.

This week, Old Dominion lawmakers returned to Richmond for what’s known as the “veto session,” which is when the legislative session reconvenes for one whole day to consider, accept, and/or reject the governor’s vetoes and amendments to the legislation and budget that passed earlier in the year.

The space between the end of the regular General Assembly session in March and this past Wednesday was … fraught.

• GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin was pouty about not getting his Mojo Dojo Casa Arena so he could steal two professional sports teams from DC and bring them to the Commonwealth, and rather than sulk in solitude, he took his tantrum on the road.

  • In the back half of March, Youngkin undertook a statewide publicity tour, where he mostly just met with Republican faithful and bitched about how unfair Democrats were and how awful the state budget they passed was (he called it a “backward budget,” which, well, points f…