Earlier today, in an extraordinary sequence of events, the Virginia Senate passed the House-Senate Conference Committee budget 21-19. Senator Charles Colgan, the chamber’s most senior member, and ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, cracked the heretofore Democrat hegemony to provide … Read more>

Following Senate Democrats unprecedented partisan rejection of the Virginia state budget, again, Governor Bob McDonnell issued the following statement:

Today, Senate Democrats cast the most fiscally reckless vote I have witnessed in my 21 years in office. They have killed

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The five Virginia Senate Democrats who voted for SB 283, SB 311 and SB 417, the Senate bill for health care freedom and defense of the 10th Amendment, are: Senators Charles Colgan (D-29, Manassas) and Phil Puckett (D-38, … Read more>

Perhaps the just completed Attempt To Raise Our Taxes Session of the General Assembly didn’t produce anything but a big sigh of relief that the House Republicans stood strong in the face of pressure to acquiesce to massive tax increase … Read more>

As The Special Tax Session of the General Assembly was about to get underway, we posed one question we said we’d love Governor Tim Kaine to answer. Now that House Republicans, or at least some of them, are … Read more>

The Special Tax Session of the General Assembly recessed yesterday after a week in which Governor Tim Kaine’s (contact here) massive tax increase plan was defeated 11-4 in the House Rules Committee (including two Democrat votes against) and where Senate Democrats … Read more>

What’s with the tone of big-government, tax-raising types? First it was a series of quotes from Governor Tim Kaine, such as his disdainful “There’s no free lunch” mantra along with telling low-tax activists to “Stay off the roads.”

Yesterday, in … Read more>