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By: Ask Your Senate Candidates A Question Or Two « The Family Foundation

Ask Your Senate Candidates A Question Or Two « The Family Foundation — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:37:17 +0000

[...] in the General Assembly asked for an audit of VDOT. If you want to raise taxes for VDOT to spend, shouldn’t we see how it spends what it has? But the then-governor and the tax-first, ask- later never spenders, whose reflexive answer to [...]

By: FamilyFoundationBlog.com » Blog Archive » New Poll Question: Who Mismanaged Worse? Kaine Or Warner?

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:23:04 +0000

[...] got me thinking: Who did worse? Tim Kaine in mismanaging VDOT and letting nearly $1.5 billion languish in various accounts while try… (against his own campaign promise) “for transportation needs”? Or, Mark Warner, who [...]

By: FamilyFoundationBlog.com » Blog Archive » While Digging For New … | Arizona

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:16:01 +0000

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By: FamilyFoundationBlog.com » Blog Archive » VDOT Horded $1.45 Billion While Opposing Just Compensation To Landowners

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:52:00 +0000

[...] First, a little more detail than yesterday’s post, which was based on early reports. As it turns out, the much asked for (and denied by the previous two governors) private audit of VDOT found more than $500 million buried in a hole or sitting in a closet. That was for only the most recent fiscal year. A cumulative amount, from all sources, including something akin to unused federal funding credits, totals $1.45 billion! The reasons ranged from projects coming in under budget (good) but the unused money not then reallocated to other or new projects (bad), to money stashed away from canceled projects (really bad), and a reserve fund (on top of the “Rainy Day Fund”) that was never used and allowed to accumulate excesses of unneeded cash (incredibly inept). [...]