Two Democratic members of the Virginia state Legislature were recently caught on a hot mic expressing their disdain not only for Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, but also for parents who insist on their rights to guide and direct the upbringing of their children. In the recordings, the Democratic lawmakers can be heard describing parental rights as “garbage,” “crap,” and “stupid.” In two separate tweets, the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) posted the audio recordings of state Senator Monty Mason and state Delegate Shelly Simonds during a political social function at Christopher Newport University. In the first of the two recordings, Mason and Simonds can be heard taking about S.B. 1515. The bill — passed in March — requires pornography websites to verify the age of visitors and allows civil liability if sites do not prevent minors from accessing pornographic content. While even few Democrats publicly objected to the bill’s passage, it appears that the two hard-left state legislators caught on the hot mic did not mind expressing their true feelings in what they imagined was a private conversation. And what they said does not cast them in a favorable light. Others can be heard in the recordings, laughing and agreeing, but they did not make remarks and have not been identified.
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