Tom Perriello And Ralph Northam’s Anti-Business Policies Would Hurt Virginia

Tonight, the Democrat candidates for Virginia governor, Ralph Northam and Tom Perriello will meet in Norfolk to debate which candidate is the most extreme choice for Virginia voters. In their last debate on May 9, the two raced to the left on labor issues, putting union bosses ahead of Commonwealth workers by affirming their opposition to Virginia’s right to work laws.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

“Right to work laws took center stage at the May 9 debate between Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam and former Obama administration appointee Tom Perriello. The candidates were asked their opinion on the law, which bars making union membership a condition of employment, and whether they would break with current Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s past support for it.

‘I think it undermines the middle class and working class here in Virginia,’ Perriello said.

Northam said that he would support pro-union legislation like project labor agreements, which set wage floors for government contracts at union pay rates to help bolster organized labor. He highlighted his efforts to block enshrining right to work in the state constitution as lieutenant governor, but warned that immediate repeal of right to work laws would be complicated by Republican control of the legislature in the state, saying Democrats ‘have to be realistic in Virginia.’”

Despite right to work’s unmistakably positive impact on Virginia and ample evidence of its ability to spur job growth in states like Kentucky and Tennessee, both Tom Perriello and Ralph Northam continue to push anti-worker policies that could potentially set Virginians back decades. The Virginia Democrat candidates’ radical agendas will be on full display tonight as they desperately try to prove which of them is the bigger sellout to big labor.