Mike Shear and Chris Jenkins’ lead in The Washington Post sums it up: “Virginia’s lawmakers have not figured out how to spend the state’s money, but they know they can still collect it.”
Joe May begins his candidacy with a credibility problem. I attended a meeting of a Loudoun County school group a few months ago where he let school advocates know that he would favor a ½-cent increase in the sales tax. Now, he opposes it. Do we really want for Lt. Gov. a man who can’t keep his word?
The Hampton Roads Daily Press has a great editorial today pointing out that even the anti-tax zealots are conceding that the growth in the state budget over the last several years was in the non-general fund, which is for the most part mandated, and now point to the growth during the “dot-com bubble.” Guess who was governor then?
The Virginian Pilot says the House bill shouldn’t be “the final word.” Amen.
Bob Gibson at the Charlottesville Daily Progress points out the disingenuous poll by Del. Rob Bell (R-Albemarle County).
Even the New York Times editorial page is weighing in on the Commonwealth’s budget impasse.
Charlottesville police are asked to “cease your practice of detaining African-American men practically at random” for DNA testing. One woman asked police if they “would undergo widespread testing of white men if the rapist were white.”
Christian college acting like anything but.
The Inspector General position that Warner plans to sign on to will cost taxpayers $500,000 a year. (See previous post.) The devil will be in the details as to whether it becomes a political football.
Maybe Attorney General Jerry Kilgore was part of the eavesdropping scandal after all.