Jan 07, 2010
Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell named three more Cabinet secretaries yesterday—a former delegate, a leader in the high-tech industry and a former Interior Department staff member.
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RICHMOND—Governor-elect Bob McDonnell won’t spare his own office when it comes to balancing Virginia’s budget, pledging to cut his own pay and the salaries of his Cabinet officers and senior staff members while the state struggles with revenue shortfalls.
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Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell is taking his inaugural festivities and their theme of community service statewide, offering opportunities to fete him starting Friday in Abingdon.
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Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell said Tuesday he planned to mark his inauguration with an eye toward frugality and helping those who are suffering in tough economic times.
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Republican governor-elect Bob McDonnell does not like Virginia’s budget cycle. Neither, for that matter, does outgoing Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine nor anyone else who has thought much about it. It is time for a change.
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He hasn’t even been sworn into office yet, but as a result of his runaway November victory McDonnell is already being touted as one of the GOP’s leading lights and a model for how Republican candidates can win in competitive states.
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Gov-elect Bob McDonnell’s idea to switch Virginia’s budget process from odd-numbered to even-numbered years makes sense. It will ease the process he will face this month of taking someone else’s budget plan and making it his own in the short time he has before handing it to legislators.
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David Rexrode, who was the deputy campaign manager to Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell, is the new executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia. He will take office Monday.
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