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“While
Virginia's Medicaid expenditures are projected to
increase by $500 million in the next biennium,
policymakers need to be mindful that cost
containment measures alone will not address the
underlying issues -- utilization and inflation --
impacting Medicaid's continuing growth rate.”
--
Delegate Phil Hamilton, writing in Bacon’s
Rebellion.
“The
latest Rasmussen Poll shows that Tweedle Dum (Spend
Mo' Money) holds a narrow three-point lead over
Tweedle Dee (Spend Lots Mo' Money). The race
is narrowing, and Tweedle Dim (Spend Mo' Money
and Raise Taxes, Too) remains a non-factor with
a mere five percent tally.”
--Jim
Bacon, Bacon’s Rebellion Blog
“You
were not elected to promise without knowledge.
You are elected and you have a duty to deliver
promises based on knowledge. Isn’t it ironic that
the very network established to give people their
freedom is now stealing that same freedom from
them?”
--Phil
Shucet, addressing the START transportation task
force this week
“I
would have to say that the column you wrote about
Katrina is the worst you have ever written.”
--George
Allen’s aide, Tucker Watkins, in an e-mail
communication to this writer
“The
Governor proudly signed these House Republican
legislative initiatives into law just months ago.
That’s why I am dismayed that the Administration
now is eliminating $290 million in dedicated
transportation funding and eliminating another $100
million for water quality improvements in the
2006-08 state budget that the Governor is
preparing.”
--Speaker
of the House Bill Howell
“Virginia
House and statewide candidates raised $11 million
during the months of July and August. You can search
the contributions and expenditures that have been
standardized and coded by the non-partisan Virginia
Public Access Project. All transactions are current
through August 31.”
—David
Poole, Virginia Public Access Project.
Top
10 Virginia House of Delegates candidate money
raisers this period: John Mason (HO37)--$138,829;
Jeff (HO52)--$131,103: Chuck Caputo (HO67)--
$116,385; David Bulova (HO37)--$88,247: Paula Miller
(HO87)--$79,557; David Marsden (HO41)--$76,974;
Gregory Werkheiser (HO42)--$76,705—Bradley Marrs
(HO68)--$72,365; Hilda Barg (HO52)--$71,115; Frank
Hall (HO69)--$65,421.
Top
10 cash-on-hand: Stephen Shannon--$226,063; Jeff
Frederick--$202,961; Richard Black--$201,782; Rob
Bell—189,756; David Albo--$182,680; Ward
Armstrong--$172,884; Hilda Barg--$168,886; Gregory
Werkheiser--$165,119; Chris Jones--$162,744; David
Marsden $127,967.
Top
10 donors to date: Leadership for Virginia--
$357,775; One Virginia--$334,000; Virginia
Conservative Action--$207,747; Virginia Republican
House Campaign Committee--$162,164; Virginia Dental
Association--$151,652; Dominion Leadership
Trust--$140,500; Virginia Automobile Dealers--
$130,645; Friends of Joe May--$130,000; Jerry
Flowers--$127,146; Dominion Resources--$119,486
“Mayor
Nagin and most mayors in this country have a hard
time getting their people to work on a sunny day,
let alone getting them out of the city in front of a
hurricane."
-–Sen.
Mary Landrieu (D-LA), on why New Orleans Mayor Ray
Nagin failed to follow the city's evacuation plan
and press the buses into service, Fox News Sunday,
Sept. 11, 2005
“Judge
Roberts can, maybe, you know, be thankful that a
tragedy has brought him some good."
–-Christian
broadcaster Pat Robertson, arguing that Supreme
Court nominee John Roberts stands to benefit from
Hurricane Katrina because "inflamed rhetoric in
the United States Senate is just not going to play
well now," Sept. 1, 2005 on The 700 Club
“I
thought three chickens and a sack of potatoes was a
pretty good deal. My grandfather practiced
veterinary medicine in upstate New York and used to
work all week long for no more than that.”
--Clayton
Roberts, Virginia FREE, on a negotiated speaking fee
for a poor Meadows of Dan lad.
“Take
me now, Lord. I don’t want to see no more.”
—Steve
Haner, former member of the Republican Brain Trust
in Virginia, on learning that grape-flavored blunts
are what passes for cigars these days.
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October 3, 2005
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