Phew! Yesterday, the Blue Dog covered two Jerry Kilgore events and interviewed a number of GOP elected officials along with a new House of Delegate GOP candidate, Matt Lohr. I also had lunch with a Republican House of Delegate member who talked about his choice for VA’s next Governor, Jerry Kilgore.
Q. Guess what I’m going to write about for the next month?
A. Republicans, Republicans, Republicans.
Mr. Kilgore and his staff were well organized with good crowds in Staunton and Harrisonburg for the campaign kickoff. Nice media handouts as well with Tim Murtaugh and others following up. The major players were out in force — Landes, Saxman, Cline and Obenshain, while 24th District Senator Hanger was AWOL from both events.
1. Updated Taxpayer Bill of Rights; that would give citizens the opportunity to vote on any increase in state sales, gas or income tax.
2. Another Watchdog Commission (remember the Wilder Commission?); a bipartisan commission to identify burdensome and wasteful regulations for elimination and reform (hmm … I told candidate Kilgore that a Blue Dog on a bipartisan Watch-DOG Commission would be a perfect fit).
But it’s nice to see BOTH candidates, Kilgore and Kaine, talking the anti-tax talk with property tax relief, but as Governor, are these politicians willing to walk the anti-tax walk?
The Commonwealth has already been there, done that with Gov. Mark “I will not raise taxes” Warner.
With a wink and a smile, ‘Pub candidate Jerry Kilgore said he reads the Blue Dog Tales on a regular basis, while last year, Dem Tim Kaine said, “Oh that Blue Dog column. I don’t agree with your tax stands.”
Hmm … maybe, I should ‘Barney-it-down’ quite a bit with the anti-tax rhetoric.
There’s more retribution from the red storm that’s rising in the valley:
Because a Valley ‘Pub told me he was witness to some fireworks at the Clarke County GOP committee meeting last week. Chris Oprison gave a fiery speech denouncing Joe May (who was in attendance) in from of a strong May crowd.
… He called May’s record “abhorrent,” and said he “says one thing and does another.”
“You could hear a pin drop. Very tense. After the meeting, May and Oprison had a face to face talk. Don’t know what words were passed but it was quite a show.”
I say, like a heavy metal rock n roll show …
If you think it’s over, better think again
There’ll be no compromise
Time to hit the power, feel adrenaline
Move into overdrive
Here comes the revolution
Time for retribution
