The Washington Times Endorses Bob McDonnell for Governor

WASHINGTON, DC- The Washington Times today endorsed Bob McDonnell, Republican gubernatorial nominee and former Attorney General of Virginia, in the 2009 race for governor. In endorsing McDonnell the paper noted:

”....Virginia’s business leaders - focused on the bottom line, not ideological litmus tests - have come to the same conclusion. The Northern Virginia Technology Council, representing the future of the state’s economy - IBM, Google, Microsoft, AOL and Cisco, among others - has endorsed the Republican through the organization’s political action committee. The Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce, the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the Virginia Association of Realtors and the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation have made a united choice that Mr. McDonnell can best steer the commonwealth through troubled economic times and position Virginia for job growth.

Unlike his opponent, Mr. McDonnell has experience as a statewide elected official running the attorney general’s office and as a local legislator. Instead of building his campaign on how the government can do more by stripping resources from families and private-sector job creators, Mr. McDonnell is leading with ideas on how the state can focus its efforts on the priorities that matter. For instance, if the commonwealth gets out of the booze business, there’s more money to address transportation.

....Virginians face a simple choice this November: Keep trying the same old policies and hoping the results will be different or actually doing something different by electing Mr. McDonnell.”

The full editorial can be read here:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/21/mcdonnell-for-governor/?feat=home_editorials