Archive for the ‘2006 Gen. Assembly session’ Category
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Will mentioned earlier the Tim Kaine plan to "flood the Capitol" with supporters of his tax hike proposal on Wednesday.
Well, things evidently didn't go off as planned. Here's a dispatch from someone who was in attendance at Gov. Kaine's transportation event this morning at the Marriott where his tax-increase supporters gathered, were given their [...]
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
There's a screaming headline in today's Virginian-Pilot: Norfolk Ford plant dragged into state budget fray. Reporters Christina Nukols and Warren Fiske cover the kerfluffle kicked up yesterday when Del. Ben Cline (R-Rockbridge) said in a news conference, "What Ford has decided is that the plant in Virginia is too expensive to operate. [...]
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
I know some folks have scoffed at Speaker Howell's assertion that the House members in his caucus haven't been overwhelmed with constituent pleas for action on transportation.
Today was "Seaker Howell" Day at an online Washington Post transportation chat. Almost two-thirds of the way through the chat, the host had to beg: Steve Ginsberg: I'm [...]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
The Roanoke Times editorial page, pom-pom waving cheering squad for tax increases, allowed Del. Lacey Putnam (I, Bedford) a scrap of Saturday morning, nobody's reading anyway so what the heck, op-ed real estate to make the case for the "other side." Del. Putney makes the House of Delegates' case powerfully and succinctly: The governor's [...]
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Jim Bacon has some good news on telephone taxes.
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
From Michael Hardy and Jeff Schapiro on today's front page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, another story on the budget impasse: "The longer this goes, the more appealing it will be to pass a budget and deal with transportation another time," said Sen. R. Edward Houck, D-Spotsylvania, a budget negotiator.
That could push the transportation debate [...]
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Jeff "Good Copy" Schapiro's column in today's Richmond Times-Dispatch is a mess.
He opens by introducing us to a character who surely must be an anomaly, although no mention is made of this possibility: Perry Pilgrim voted for Jerry Kilgore over Tim Kaine. But Pilgrim likes what the Democratic Governor is saying about transportation [...]
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Jim Bacon:
Who is that caped man -- the one twirling his handlebar moustache and emitting an evil laugh, mwa ha ha ha ha - at the suffering of Virginia commuters?
Why, it's arch fiend William Howell -- or at least the cartoon image of the House Speaker as penned by the editorialists at the Washington Post.
Good [...]
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Chelyen Davis of the Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star has a piece today on what might happen if no budget agreement is reached by July 1st.
It's uncharted territory and any number of things could happen. Bad things will happen if a shutdown is used to maximize political advantage, rather than used to continue vital functions [...]
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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
I've been saying it for weeks: this year's budget deadlock is different from 2004. Garren Shipley has a nice article about just that subject. It's a good read.
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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
One and the same.
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Bart Hinkle:
Instead, Kaine now is proposing yet more tax hikes. He promises the money will be used exclusively for transportation. But then, before winning office he promised he would not raise the subject, let alone taxes, until the legislature had secured transportation funds in an inviolable lockbox. Back then, he also was saying things such [...]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2006
Governor Tim Kaine announced last night that the budget crisis has been ended by the sale of the Commonwealth of Virginia to ExxonMobil. "Virginia pioneered the sale of state assets with our CGI and Northrop Grumman deals," Kaine said. "This is the logical next step and it has the happy virtue of ending [...]
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
One Man's Trash has some hot off the press news about the General Assembly's budget negotiations.
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Envirnomentalists disappointed that Governor Kaine has backed away from their slow-growth agenda are, as a famous lobbyist once said, "keeping their powder dry." Alec MacGillis of the Washington Post has the story of a vital Democratic constituency accepting crumbs instead of the warm full loaf they thought they'd been promised.
There is a difference between [...]
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Michael Shear spent the day with Governor Kaine yesterday and his Washington Post article reveals some of the underlying planning and strategy that is going into the Kaine transportation tax push.
The Governor, travelling from Richmond to Northern Virginia for a day of interviews and photo-ops culminating in a town meeting in Loudoun, met surprisingly little [...]
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
I missed this yesterday, but the WaPo had an article on what I've been saying for a while: this year's budget battle is different because the House GOP is sticking together in an unprecedented fashion.
The Post talks to the "GOP Mavericks" who voted for the tax increase last time. This time around, they [...]
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
From Garren Shipley:
They’re both members of the Virginia Senate. They’re in the same party. They share a district boundary. That’s about all they share.
Sens. H. Russell Potts Jr., R-Winchester, Mark D. Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, represent the Shenandoah Valley from Rockingham County north to the West Virginia line.
But the two men are worlds apart on a number [...]
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Heh.
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Three budget debacles in recent Virginia history, one with Gov. Kaine, one with Gov. Warner, one with Gov. Gilmore. What's the one constant?
John Chichester.
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