Legislative Update – By Delegate Jason Miyares
Legislative Update
By Delegate Jason Miyares
The honor of my life is representing the citizens of Virginia Beach in the Virginia House of Delegates. In 1965, my mother Miriam Miyares fled Cuba as a scared, penniless 19 year old girl, leaving a country where the government has no consent of the governed to almost fifty years to the day in 2015 being able to vote for her son to represent her in one of the oldest democracies in the world. This is truly an example of the American Miracle.
2019 is the 400th Anniversary of the founding of the oldest continuous democratic body in the Western
Hemisphere, the Virginia General Assembly. Virginia has come a long way since the first meeting of the
legislative body in a Jamestown church on a hot July 30th, 1619. However, the same duties...