And the Dem deserves blame for accepting the bribe..........
Virginia Republicans are so intent on denying health care to 400,000 of their constituents, they'll go to any lengths.
They
possibly bribed a Democratic legislator—a deciding vote on Medicaid expansion—to leave office with the promise of a job for himself and a judgeship for his daughter.
Virginia Democratic senator Puckett to resign, possibly dooming push to expand Medicaid - The Washington Post
They passed a budget with a provision explicitly preventing Gov. Terry McAuliffe from acting on his own to expand Medicaid.
Then they essentially
broke into his office to deliver the budget on a Sunday, Fathers Day, to give McAuliffe less time to review and sign it.
That's a nice way of saying they broke in. That's how the governor's chief of staff sees it in a scathing letter sent to all parties concerned, including the chief of the Capitol Police, clarifying "that under no circumstances are you or any of your officers authorized to allow employees of the General Assembly to enter the secure areas of the governor’s office without my express permission, or the express permission of Suzette Denslow, the governor’s deputy chief of staff." These Virginian Republicans would be right at home in the Mississippi tea party.
McAuliffe did sign the budget, using his line-item veto to excise the parts that said he could not act unilaterally on Medicaid.
In response, "Howell employed a procedural move during a special session Monday to overrule two of the governor’s line item vetoes, temporarily thwarting McAuliffe’s plan to expand Medicaid without legislative approval."