{"id":1532,"date":"2004-03-03T09:34:57","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/03\/virginia_news_r-2\/"},"modified":"2004-03-03T09:34:57","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T14:34:57","slug":"virginia_news_r-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/03\/virginia_news_r-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VIRGINIA NEWS:  Referenda Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A24784-2004Mar2.html \">editorial page<\/a> blasted Va. Speaker Bill Howell\u2019s call for a tax referendum, now that his horse and buggy House has painted itself into a corner.  Many complain that The Post\u2019s editorial page is not the liberal clarion it used to be.  While that\u2019s true, it\u2019s probably a good thing.  I find the page unpredictable, meaning that while you may disagree as often as not, it\u2019s more interesting and certainly much more fair and balanced than Fox News ever is.  It pulls no punches this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A23876-2004Mar2.html \">report<\/a> of the referendum idea on B1 is well done with a sense of history, and therefore, perspective.  During the gubernatorial race, Warner favored a referendum, and just a couple of months ago, Howell called referenda \u201cpassing the buck and not making the hard decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House GOP seems to develop its strategies at the bar the night before.  At first it was this sales tax exemption idea (which frankly isn\u2019t bad but oversold in terms of dollars it will raise).  Now it\u2019s a referendum.  Howell and Co. keep throwing things up against the wall to see if something sticks.  This ain\u2019t pasta, it\u2019s the AAA rating and Virginia\u2019s future they\u2019re playing with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post editorial page blasted Va. Speaker Bill Howell\u2019s call for a tax referendum, now that his horse and buggy House has painted itself into a corner. Many complain that The Post\u2019s editorial page is not the liberal clarion it used to be. While that\u2019s true, it\u2019s probably a good thing. I find the&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/03\/virginia_news_r-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}