Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly insist that Gov. Glenn Youngkin illegally appointed his director of the state’s renamed Office of Diversity, Opportunity, and Inclusion.
The Virginia office used to be called the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, a concept popularized by the Left and commonly known as DEI. However, in his second week as governor, Youngkin signed an executive order Jan. 19, 2022, removing the term “equity” from the office’s name and replacing it with “opportunity. “
In November 2022, the Republican governor appointed Martin Brown, who is black, as Virginia’s chief diversity, opportunity officer and director of the office.
In response to Youngkin’s name change for the diversity office, Virginia Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, successfully offered an amendment to the state’s budget bill…
