You Killed HB1016! You Bastards! - Maybe Jamie was right about leaving Virginia, since the Commonwealth is plainly not ready to move into the 1990s yet, let alone modern times. I can't tell you how disappointed I am in my birth state for being the last to liberalize domestic partner health insurance.

The roll of dishonor for this egregiously anti-business and gratuitously anti-gay vote includes nine Republican state senators: Wampler (Wise), Chichester (Stafford), Norment (Yorktown), Stosch (Henrico), Stolle (Virginia Beach), Williams (Newport News), Wagner (Virginia Beach), Newman (Bedford) and Rerras (Norfolk). Only four Democrats and two Republicans - one from northern Virginia and one from Richmond - voted against "continuing" (i.e. killing) the bill.

On a side note, I would certainly think this shelves any plans for hard DP benefits for UVa employees this year.