Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, the Democratic leader behind the state’s redistricting effort, was arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged bribery and racketeering scheme.

In a 45-page indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lucas and six co-defendants were charged with conspiring to distribute and possess marijuana, conspiring to launder money, laundering money, and committing bribery by distributing large quantities of illegal marijuana under the auspices of her legal medical cannabis business.

Lucas, an 82-year-old great-grandmother, has served in the Virginia Senate since 1992. She faces five of the eight charges included in the indictment. These charges arrive five months after the FBI raided Lucas’s office in Portsmouth, Virginia, and the neighboring cannabis dispensary she co-owns.

More fascist BS.

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      It’s not like the German people or a German resistance stopped him. It took several foreign armies, millions of deaths and a devastated continent. US still can do better.

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      So… yes…

      BUT

      The only people training at USPSA, 3-Gun, NRL, PRS, and ELR matches I go to are conservatives.

      So maybe he left should actually take interest in the skills needed to defend their way of life. Until then, owning the gun is as useful as owning a plant.

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        NGL. I’m expecting most conservatives to be dead after a few weeks of us not reminding them not to drink bleach or using ivermectin to cure literally anything except parasitic infections.

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        Not all of them, but yes, most. However, I know that there are quite a few ELR shooters as well as other enthusiast who don’t participate in matches.

        There used to be a John Brown gun club and there are certainly are people who are capable and willing to teach. If I had the time and resources I would love to start a two gun or rifle match that leans into the anti-fascist theme. Even .22 matches are growing in popularity and can be easier to get into.