A month since Democrat Abigail Spanberger was elected Virginia’s first female governor by a resounding 15-point margin, she is deep into transition plans and setting an agenda for her first months in office.

Spanberger told News4 she’s already working on her inaugural address, but perhaps more important than what she says on the Capitol steps on Jan. 17 will be her first executive orders.

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She didn’t wait for inauguration to assert herself in one area: pushing back against the Trump administration’s action against the University of Virginia and George Mason University that caused UVA’s president to step down. She asked UVA’s Board of Visitors to stop its search for a new president until her board appointees fill empty sl

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