Sep 30, 2009
A new state-wide poll gives Republican Bob McDonnell a double digit lead in the race for Governor. The latest News 7 Survey USA poll has McDonnell ahead of Democrat Creigh Deeds by 14 percentage points, with 55 percent of the vote to 41 percent.
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Bob McDonnell and Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican nominees for governor and attorney general, this morning talked up their plan to improve mental-health services in the state. They said they want to expand a community-based system of care, improve services for children and teens, and find more effective treatment for inmates.
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Deeds seems uncomfortable speaking to those issues. For example, his “transportation plan” is to support tax increases, while passing on the actual job of producing a plan to a commission after the election. But distracting voters with scaremongering advertisements is not a good substitute for addressing the issues.
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Between the small discrepancies and the tall tales, the Deeds’ campaign deceits are adding up.
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The Republican candidates for Virginia governor and lieutenant governor proposed Monday to overhaul the state’s budget making by tying agency spending to performance, expanding “rainy day” reserves and enacting a series of audits, among other measures. The package of reforms “shows our commitment to restoring fiscal integrity to the budget process,” Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, who is seeking re-election, told reporters in a conference call with Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell.
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is returning to Virginia lend support for his party’s nominee for governor, Bob McDonnell. Jindal is scheduled to headline a McDonnell fundraiser tonight at the McLean house of home builder Dwight C. Shar.
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Republican candidate Bob McDonnell says Virginia’s governor needs a larger economic development fund to help bring jobs to the state. Speaking on Fox News Sunday, McDonnell said he also wants to add tax incentives for job creation and to divert money from the state’s general fund to transportation.
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Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for governor, insisted yesterday that he can raise money for transportation without raising taxes or taking money that now goes to education. During an appearance by McDonnell on “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace noted that 46 percent of Virginia’s general fund goes to education, 24 percent to health and human resources and 11 percent to public safety.
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Bob McDonnell’s campaign stepped up efforts to turn the Virginia governor’s race into a referendum on taxes, hoping to capitalize on Democrat Creigh Deeds’ increasingly unambiguous support for higher taxes to boost evaporating road funding. “Creigh Deeds is now the first major candidate for governor of Virginia to run on an outright platform of raising taxes,” said Ed Gillespie, Republican nominee McDonnell’s campaign chairman.
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Republican gubernatorial nominee and former Attorney General of Virginia Bob McDonnell just picked up another endorsement. The Hampton Roads Business PAC, a public policy committee of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce, endorsed McDonnell Friday citing his transportation plan and business record as important factors in their decision.
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