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General Assembly proposals aim to protect LGBTQ Virginians from hate crimes Anya Sczerzenie, Staff Writer  Del. Danica Roem, the first openly transgender person in the Virginia General Assembly, was a freshman at Paul IV Catholic High School in Fairfax when she heard of the death of Matthew Shepard on the news. Shepard, an openly gay University of Wyoming student, was severely beaten in 1998 and later died of his injuries. His death ignited nationwide conversation about hate crimes and was one of the most famous anti-LGBTQ attacks in U.S. history. Roem, who knew at the time that she was tran...

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>> it is the top of the hour and this is an inappropriate time for this conversation. but that's what makes us "morning joe." joining us now former mccain senior campaign strategist and msnbc political analyst steve schmidt. and in washington "new york times" reporter jeremy peters. hi. >> good morning. >> good to have you all on board this hour. the house majority leader faced the press in the wake of his double digit loss to little known dave brat. the day at times was emotional. house speaker john boehner fought back tears during a meeting with the caucus. the postmortem on what went wrong ...

Brat. one said john boehner fought back tears. that's not surprising. he's a crier. >> it was a wednesday, so -- >> they talked about what went wrong and played on all day with many in virginia saying cantor had become a washington insider who simply forgot his roots and virginia values. a claim cantor disputes. >> you know, i was in my district every week. so, you know, there's a balance between holding a leadership position and serving constituents at home. but never was there a day did i not put the constituents of the seventh district of virginia first and i will continue to do so. >> why ...

Sermon, all right for some other place. but to be the leader of the state and to be in that second position that you spoke of is not respective of virginia values. now, i remember when i ran for that office, particularly the governor's office, there was a considerable amount of pressure being applied to overturn roe v. wade. i made it a point to let that be a part of my plank and my platform. i would not let anything go overturned. i was advised, oh, you're making a mistake. i said you'd be surprised at the people who are not going to turn virginia back. i would submit to you that a lot of rep...