Find $1.45 billion laying around your local VDOT recently? Kind of puts in question those “Best Managed State” awards Tim Kaine and Mark Warner loved to brag about.
Which got me thinking: Who did worse? Tim Kaine in mismanaging VDOT and letting nearly $1.5 billion languish in various accounts while trying to raise our taxes (against his own campaign promise) “for transportation needs”? Or, Mark Warner, who also violated his no-tax pledge when he grossly underestimated general fund revenue, saying we couldn’t pay teachers, police and firefighters unless we raised taxes, only to find a huge surplus weeks after signing the tax increase bill? Or, back to Mr. Kaine, who overestimated general fund revenue during a recession, despite advice to the contrary, so that when revenue fell short, he could kick and scream for a tax increase to fund his new programs?
We ask. You decide.
Things like this (VDOT funds in surplus) are why voters are so angry now at government in general. We fell lied to and manipulated.
Although they already have a lot to deal with, I have to wonder if the General Assembly ought to do an investigation into these matters and to determine how and why this happened in greater detail. Was someone outright lying about these matters, was it just a “cluster foul up”? If it has not already been determined, how and why did this happen? How can this be avoided in the future?
How can we vote on something like this?? They are ALL the worst kind of leadership!! They are ALL politicians in the worst sense and you can’t trust any of them, especially the democrats and usually the republicans as well.
Issues such as this one are distracting family advocates from the biggest issue of our day: The privatization of Virginia’s ABC Stores. Stopping the immoral move of Governor McDonnell to triple the number of hard liquor outlets in Virginia ought to be the number one priority of family advocates across the Commonwealth. Its consequences far exceed any mismanagement (or deception) by former Democratic governors.