Millions of dollars behind in raising money and unlikely to meet a fast-approaching final deadline, the Denver committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is considering spending cuts.
Too bad they don’t do the same when it comes to the budget our tax dollars pay.
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Well, I wanted to comment on this, but everything that needs to be said has been said. lol
Well golly, Mark Warner (Dem) cut six billion dollars of proposed spending from Jim Gilmore’s (Pub) last proposed (and approved by a Republican General Assembly, both House and Senate) budget when he was Governor. But I suppose that doesn’t count? Doesn’t fit with your picture in your mind of what a Democrat is supposed to look like? Perhaps it is your picture, the one which you’ve conjured and cultivated within yourself, which is flawed… Megan I thought more of you than this. Oh well, too bad.
Lowell, do you remember Warner saying this:
“The old style of politics, of saying anything to get elected, is not what we need. Instead, as a businessman, I will clean up the budget mess in Richmond, restore accountability, and — no matter how many times my opponent may say otherwise — I will not raise your taxes.”
Do you also remember…
- the $1.4 billion tax increase Warner signed, the largest in VA history?
- that the state ended the ‘04 fiscal year with a $400 million surplus, before the tax increas went into effect?
- that the surplus eventually ballooned into a $2 billion one?
- that the state budget in ‘98 was $18.2 billion…and, by 2004, the budget had grown to $26 billion?
- that in his last budget proposal, he suggested spending $36 billion?
This isn’t just something people are conjuring up in their crazy little heads, Lowell…
RF,
I sincerely hope you guys just stay with those same talking points you were using when I ran in ‘05. They were straining credibility then, now… Well, as I said, please stay with it.
What strains credibility is to just dismiss the above as mere “talking points”. Did he not say that? Was there not a surplus BEFORE the tax increase went into effect? Did the state budget, and therefore spending, not grow under his tutelage?
Is my information not correct? If it is (and I’m fairly certain of THAT), then why is it not credible?
Because it doesn’t fit the picture that Lowell has “conjured and cultivated within [himself]”
#2 I was referring to all politicians, not just one party or the other.
I’m almost embarrassed for Lowell. What a spankin, administered by RF. But we have come to expect that sort of light-weight posting out of our beer drinkin buddy Lowell.
Yeah, he really served that up on a silver platter. It had to be done…even if I did just use mere “talking points”. Others would call them FACTS, but I digress…