Kaine swings and misses — 98 times

Posted by ( Godsaveus ) on July 22, 2008 at 10:29 am

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Gilmore in his first year as Governor, pushed for car-tax reduction legislation that was eventually passed by the Democrat-controlled General Assembly. The legislation reduced car taxes on all cars valued less than $1,000, and phased out the tax on auto values over $1,000 12.5% reduction in 1998to 100% reduction in 2002. Gilmore signed an executive order reducing state spending by all agencies, except for education, to keep the state’s budget balanced during the economic downturn. Gilmore also implemented new Standards of Learning reforms in Virginia’s public schools; it prescribed a uniform curriculum in mathematic, English and social studies and instituted new tests at the end of the third, fifth and eighth grades, as well as end-of-course tests in high school, to measure student achievement. During Gilmore’s term, students from Virginia’s public school scores increased statewide and nationwide as well. In 1999, Gilmore proposed and signed into law legislation that reduced tuitions at public colleges and universities by 20%. In 2001, Northern Virginia’s economy was severely impacted after terrorist flew a hijacked airplane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia on September 11, resulting in the closure of Reagan National Airport for several months. Gilmore signed an executive order reducing state spending by all agencies, except for education, to keep the state’s budget balanced during the economic downturn. When Gilmore left office in January 2002, the state’s “rainy day fund,” or revenue stabilization fund, contained $1 billion. After Gov Warner was elected, in 2002, he drew upon a $900 million “rainy day fund” left by his predecessor, J. Gilmore. In 2002, Warner campaigned in favor of two regional sales tax increases (Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads) to fund transportation. Virginians rejected both regional referendums to raise the sales taxes in 2002.
What Gov Kaine did with the 1 billion excess that Gov Warnet lefth due to the increase of tabacco and corporate taxes?.

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Posted by ( Aware ) on July 21, 2008 at 11:10 pm

Oh please spare us.  Is this the same Mr. Frederick who said he would give up his seat if elected Chairman?  The same Mr. Frederick who now says he may not because--and I quote--"everyone in the world is asking him to run again” (he never asked me).  Or maybe the same Mr. Frederick who says he needs to continue to raise funds “in case his wife Amy wants his seat”.  Silly me...I thought we still elected people, not appointed them.  What a hypocrite.  He cares nothing about getting anything meaningful done.  He cares for one thing only:  Jeff.  Well, maybe Jeff and Amy.

By the way, to those who don’t know who the ‘Albo Fees’ would have affected, just look at Mr. Albo’s website.  This is how his website describes his speciality: “Practice Areas: Criminal and Serious Traffic Law”.  No wonder he’s upset the law was repealed.  Enough said.

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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on July 21, 2008 at 5:55 pm

Godsaveus is correct. It was a past-governor and now current senate candidate that lead us down this deep dark hole. But it was Jim Gilmore (R) and his No Car Tax program that denied Virginians funds necessary for road improvements. Mark Warner had to bail Virgina out of Gilmore’s mess. Road improvements don’t grow on trees and if you want to spend money, you either cut programs or raise taxes. My first step would be to require churches to pay taxes on their real estate and income. This alone would drop a pretty penny in Virginia’s coffers.

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Posted by ( jVA ) on July 21, 2008 at 4:45 pm

“mr. frederick took the time to point out that the democratic party has been standing on the sideline, yelling for the coach to put them in.  well, they got their shot, and this one missed badly.  it happens. “

Yeah Jeff Frederick is clearly an objective observer.  According to good old Jeff, the “Democrats postured, posed, and in the end were caught playing politics” while the steadfast Republicans “crafted a package of innovative solutions to the transportation problems we now have in the Commonwealth”. 

Its good to see his new role as the Chairman of the Virginia Republican Party of Virginia hasn’t skewed his opinions at all.  Give me a break. 

If you actually believe this stuff, why bother reading newspapers?  Just subscribe to the RNC and get your news directly in easy to digest talking point format.

The truth about the transportation sessions is that NOBODY aside from Governor Kaine was willing to do anything substantive, because there is no easy solution and the other side will just club them over the head with whatever they do in November. 

So we get no solutions AND we have to listen to Jeff the Shill lecture us all in the newspaper with his weak Republican spin.  The guy had little credibility before.  Now he has ZERO.

Caps are for emphasis btw.  Don’t let them get your panties all knotted up.

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Posted by ( jVA ) on July 21, 2008 at 2:28 pm

“as we’ve hit some tough times in this great nation of ours”

Yeah.  We just happened to “hit some tough times” over the past eight years.  Just pure happenstance.  Didn’t have anything to do with the guy in the white house or six years of a Republican majority backing him up.

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