Outlining her plans and hopes for Virginia before the General Assembly, Gov. Abigail Spanberger started with a note about milestones — the state’s first first gentleman, the first Muslim woman elected as lieutenant governor, the first African American attorney general — along with thoughts about the election that brought them, and her, to break that new ground.
“People have asked me in recent weeks about the concept of a mandate, what’s your mandate? They wonder what the results of elections will mean in practice,” she told a joint assembly of the House of Delegates and state Senate in a more-than-hourlong speech on Monday.
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