Fairfax County General :
Fairfax Underground
Welcome to Fairfax Underground, a project site designed to improve communication among residents of Fairfax County, VA. Feel free to post anything Northern Virginia residents would find interesting.
Welcome to Fairfax Underground, a project site designed to improve communication among residents of Fairfax County, VA. Feel free to post anything Northern Virginia residents would find interesting.
Thanks For Transportation Gov Elect, NOT!!!!
Posted by:
Save America
()
Date: December 15, 2005 08:15AM
You get the government you deserve!!
Examiner Editorial - I have promises to keep, not
15Dec'05
Published: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:12 PM EST
E-mail this story | Print this page
Uh-oh. Virginia Gov.-elect Tim Kaine - who campaigned on a promise to support a constitutional amendment that would make the Transportation Trust Fund off limits to any other spending - now says he's willing to be "flexible" on the subject. In one of the fastest cases of backpedaling in recent memory, the not-even-sworn-in-yet Democrat is already considering a measure to allow "temporary" borrowing from the Trust Fund if legislators promise to return the money.
Who does he think he's kidding?
That's exactly what we have now. It's also precisely the reason Northern Virginia is still short $2 billion in transportation infrastructure.
"It's less about the mechanism and more about the character and fervor of the promise," Kaine disingenuously told downstate reporters. The governor-elect even suggested that he might be OK dumping that whole constitutional amendment thing altogether.
Kaine is currently negotiating with the same Senate Republicans who voted for Gov. Mark Warner's historic tax increase while the state was running a surplus.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman John Chichester, R-Fredericksburg, says he's confident that Kaine and the Senate can work out some sort of deal. No doubt, but the last "deal" wasn't good for N.Va. - and you can be sure this one won't be either.
To make his sudden about-face on transportation somewhat more palatable, Kaine insists he's still willing to support measures that will give localities greater power to control development. But according to the Virginia Public Access Project, the real estate/construction industry was the top contributor to Kaine's $20 million gubernatorial campaign. In fact, developers, general contractors, real estate agents and property management firms were his top four supporters.
So don't be surprised if the new governor's "fervor" on this subject completely overwhelms this "mechanism" too, and Virginia winds up with nothing but a bunch of empty promises ... again.
Do you have something to say about this? Send us a letter!
All Editorial stories:
Examiner Editorial - I have promises to keep, not
15Dec'05
Published: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:12 PM EST
E-mail this story | Print this page
Uh-oh. Virginia Gov.-elect Tim Kaine - who campaigned on a promise to support a constitutional amendment that would make the Transportation Trust Fund off limits to any other spending - now says he's willing to be "flexible" on the subject. In one of the fastest cases of backpedaling in recent memory, the not-even-sworn-in-yet Democrat is already considering a measure to allow "temporary" borrowing from the Trust Fund if legislators promise to return the money.
Who does he think he's kidding?
That's exactly what we have now. It's also precisely the reason Northern Virginia is still short $2 billion in transportation infrastructure.
"It's less about the mechanism and more about the character and fervor of the promise," Kaine disingenuously told downstate reporters. The governor-elect even suggested that he might be OK dumping that whole constitutional amendment thing altogether.
Kaine is currently negotiating with the same Senate Republicans who voted for Gov. Mark Warner's historic tax increase while the state was running a surplus.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman John Chichester, R-Fredericksburg, says he's confident that Kaine and the Senate can work out some sort of deal. No doubt, but the last "deal" wasn't good for N.Va. - and you can be sure this one won't be either.
To make his sudden about-face on transportation somewhat more palatable, Kaine insists he's still willing to support measures that will give localities greater power to control development. But according to the Virginia Public Access Project, the real estate/construction industry was the top contributor to Kaine's $20 million gubernatorial campaign. In fact, developers, general contractors, real estate agents and property management firms were his top four supporters.
So don't be surprised if the new governor's "fervor" on this subject completely overwhelms this "mechanism" too, and Virginia winds up with nothing but a bunch of empty promises ... again.
Do you have something to say about this? Send us a letter!
All Editorial stories:
Re: Thanks For Transportation Gov Elect, NOT!!!!
Posted by:
stinkypoon
()
Date: December 15, 2005 11:56AM
Can't you wait until he's in office before you start your partison bitching? Fuck off, hack.
Re: Thanks For Transportation Gov Elect, NOT!!!!
Posted by:
RESton Peace
()
Date: December 15, 2005 01:12PM
Agreed, I mean, don't start plotting his assassination or anything. He's still just some nobody asshole we haven't even really seen him fuck up yet.
now if he starts letting guys off death row and shit, then yeah, go to town on the guy. but roads aren't worth all the anger, I mean, what's he going to do anyway. Our state is fucked and I think we should all just relax and get used to endless gridlock. The answer is drugs, we all need drugs while we're stuck in gridlock. This could be the valium talking.
(assassination is stupid. never assassinate. or mame)
(this message brought to you by the ONDCP)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/15/2005 01:13PM by RESton Peace.
now if he starts letting guys off death row and shit, then yeah, go to town on the guy. but roads aren't worth all the anger, I mean, what's he going to do anyway. Our state is fucked and I think we should all just relax and get used to endless gridlock. The answer is drugs, we all need drugs while we're stuck in gridlock. This could be the valium talking.
(assassination is stupid. never assassinate. or mame)
(this message brought to you by the ONDCP)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/15/2005 01:13PM by RESton Peace.
Re: Thanks For Transportation Gov Elect, NOT!!!!
Posted by:
§
()
Date: December 15, 2005 05:39PM
*Yawn* @ Save America. I don't see you ranting about the Bush Adminstration and their incompetence which is on a much larger arena than this nominal state issue.
Keep it up. The more you type - the more you make yourself look like a used bag of Summer's Eve.
Keep it up. The more you type - the more you make yourself look like a used bag of Summer's Eve.
Re: Thanks For Transportation Gov Elect, NOT!!!!
Posted by:
§
()
Date: December 15, 2005 05:41PM
...and who the hell uses the word "NOT" at the end of a sentence for the ironic effect? A 2nd grader maybe? Quit hanging out at the schoolyard you perv and get a J-O-B.
Re: Thanks For Transportation Gov Elect, NOT!!!!
Posted by:
from the 757
()
Date: December 15, 2005 08:18PM
I think Save America has an agenda he'd like to share with all of us. Stupid hippies...they say they want to save the world but all they do is smoke weed and smell bad.
Re: Thanks For Transportation Gov Elect, NOT!!!!
Posted by:
Gravis
()
Date: December 15, 2005 10:43PM
forget saving america, let's burn this fucker down! oh wait... that's france. :)
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
Re: Thanks For Transportation Gov Elect, NOT!!!!
Posted by:
Best in the DMV
()
Date: March 19, 2017 05:53PM
I would rather thank someone for free fish n chips from Arthur Treacher's