Governor Eyebrow Ping
Ok, is it just me or does this sentence not make sense? Maybe I need more coffee.
80 Mph is legally reckless driving in Virginia, nonetheless there are times when the entire traffic patten in all three lanes on I95 is moving that fast or faster. Likewise on the DC beltway (495) which still has a posted limit of 55 all the way around. Traffic in the outer lanes is rarey moving less than 70. Be careful...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
In an unrelated issue, this week Kaine offered the Navy ten potential sites for an new outlying landing field for Oceana’s jets to use. None of the county officials or residents in any of the affected areas were notified ahead of time, they heard about it on the news (or when the news trucks showed up for reaction). Way to go Timmy!!
Sorry folks those fees are here to say...
Virginia is a B.S. quasi-fascist state ( I won’t call it a ‘commonwealth’—no apologies folks) where all the silly state politics are a vaudeville sideshow. Demogagic governors and grand-standing legistlators. I won’t even comment on their congressional delegation.
All the political crap between the two parties never touches on matters that concern the citizens of the state in the slightest.
Both parties are equally to blame and so are the voters who empower them.
As a citizen of the US who has to drive through this police state for work and faces the ‘ticket-writing-happiest’ group of state police in the nation I can say this...
Va. voters have made their own bed and are gonna hafta lie in it for at least the next few months...and as a citizen proud to have moved out of the “Dominion” I will not let those bastards “reform” their laws to include out of state drivers—I assure you the State of Mississippi will not offer “full faith and credit” to their $ grab.
This is what happens when literal minded jack-asses distinguish between the right of interstate travel and the right to drive a car—which of course doesn’t exist but-for the sole reason that cars did not exist 220 years ago...I believe they would sneer: “driving a car is not a right.”
welcome to Big-Brother.
Here’s the vote if you care to ping the list again so they can see how their critters voted. There were several votes, the last on April 4, after the Gov made some recommended changes.
HB 3202 Transportation funding; authority to certain localities to impose additional fees therefor, report.
floor: 04/04/07 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor’s recommendation (29-Y 10-N)
YEAS—Bell, Blevins, Colgan, Deeds, Devolites Davis, Edwards, Herring, Houck, Howell, Lambert, Marsh, McDougle, Miller, Norment, O’Brien, Potts, Puckett, Puller, Quayle, Rerras, Reynolds, Ruff, Stolle, Stosch, Ticer, Wagner, Wampler, Whipple, Williams—29.
NAYS—Cuccinelli, Hanger, Hawkins, Locke, Lucas, Martin, Newman, Obenshain, Saslaw, Watkins—10.
RULE 36—0.
NOT VOTING—Chichester—1.
HB 3202 Transportation funding; authority to certain localities to impose additional fees therefor, report.
floor: 04/04/07 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (85-Y 15-N)
YEAS—Albo, Alexander, Amundson, Armstrong, Athey, BaCote, Barlow, Bell, Bowling, Brink, Bulova, Callahan, Caputo, Carrico, Cosgrove, Cox, Crockett-Stark, Dance, Dudley, Ebbin, Eisenberg, Englin, Fralin, Griffith, Hall, Hamilton, Hargrove, Hogan, Howell, A.T., Hugo, Hull, Hurt, Iaquinto, Ingram, Janis, Jones, S.C., Kilgore, Landes, Lewis, Lingamfelter, Lohr, Marsden, Marshall, D.W., May, McClellan, McEachin, McQuigg, Miller, J.H., Miller, P.J., Moran, Morgan, Nixon, Nutter, O’Bannon, Oder, Orrock, Peace, Phillips, Plum, Poisson, Purkey, Putney, Rust, Saxman, Scott, E.T., Scott, J.M., Shannon, Sherwood, Shuler, Sickles, Suit, Tata, Toscano, Tyler, Valentine, Waddell, Ward, Wardrup, Ware, O., Ware, R.L., Watts, Welch, Wittman, Wright, Mr. Speaker—85.
NAYS—Abbitt, Byron, Cline, Cole, Frederick, Gear, Gilbert, Joannou, Johnson, Jones, D.C., Marshall, R.G., Melvin, Rapp, Reid, Spruill—15.
ABSTENTIONS—0.
NOT VOTING—0.
Didn’t Governor Gridlock say on WRVA’s “Ask the Governor” that the out of state exemption was because of the general assembly? Sheesh - my memory is not so good. But I could swear I heard him lay that on the GA. So, not only is he responsible for this abomination of a law, he’s blaming the other guys. Typical Dem.