‘CIAbigail’ Spanberger Wars With Fellow Virginia Democrats

On the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, the leader of the Virginia Senate budget conference decided to start firing on her political opponents from her fortified bunkers on the hill she has occupied, while the governor tries to take the political beach from her and her allies with covert operations.

Here’s where the fun begins.

Saturday, rather than spend time sharing stories of locals who were part of the landing operation in France 82 years ago, Senate conference leader Louise Lucas took out her social media flamethrower.

In response to a post by Sen. Scott Surovell decrying the suggestion of a “DC-style continuing resolution,” the Senate president pro tempore wrote, “we had a meeting with ‘Data Center Diva’ [Gov. Abigail Spanberger] and she agrees with ‘Amazon Don’ (House Speaker Don Scott) who doesn’t want to impact the richest corporations in America!”

She would also call the governor “CIAbigail.” (Don’t feel bad, I was jealous that I hadn’t thought that one up, too.) Interesting demagoguery from a group that calls for impeachment for every post where the president calls someone a “loser.”

Here’s where I want to bring up an exposé that made headlines last week in Politico, The Hill, the New York Post and Fox News, based on research conducted by a group called the Bitcoin Policy Institute. The expose ties the campaigns against American data centers and AI to a nexus of the Chinese Communist Party, Shanghai billionaire Neville Roy Singham, the Russian TV network RT, and nonprofits led by Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and British billionaire Alan Parker.

If Lucas thinks “CIAbigail” (still envious) and “Amazon Don” Scott are being influenced by these “wealthy companies,” it only seems fair to bring up who it is that is paying for the anti-data center movements like the one Louise “Left-Eye” Lucas and her co-conspirator from the House, “Left Hand Luke” Torian, are threatening to crash Virginia’s budget for.

Then, down on the beach, we find this story filed by political consultant Ben Tribbett, who goes by “NotLarrySabato” on X:

Tribbett was one of candidate Spanberger’s chief strategists during her campaign for governor but has fallen out of favor after Spanberger’s chief of staff, Bonnie Krenz-Schnurman, sued him for defamation in February, alleging that he used his platform to spread rumors about her child’s parentage. Krenz-Schnurman’s suit claims he did this because his maps were not used in the now-failed Virginia redistricting effort.

Sure, it sounds like high school drama, but you would be dispirited to realize how much of what goes on in government actually is like that.

The point being, the governor seems to be ready to trade in the institutional memory of the Virginia Democrats for ones who won’t overturn her vetoes (and make up nicknames for her).

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