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  Political Director's Update 6th Edition August 19, 2008 Working Families Tour 3 & Super Saturday!   In This Edition: Update From The Road Yard Sign Signup Working Families Tour 3 Super Door Knock Saturday A Very Bad Day For Mark Warner, Olympic Edition     Jim Gilmore goes door to door in Fairfax County. Update from the Road Governor Gilmore has been hard at work this week, starting with some door to door in Northern Virginia, and hitting the Prince William and Rockingham County fairs. Want to know how you can help? Check out our volunteer calendar on...

Smart voters know, however, that campaign "promises" are no such thing. They represent a wish list and should be characterized as goals. Because they want to sound authoritative, candidates will sound as though they are promising this or that. Voters need to understand that circumstances change, and that such pledges hinge on a legislature going along with an idea and funding it if necessary. Senate candidate and former Republican Gov. Jim Gilmore has charged that his successor and opponent, former Democratic Gov. Mark Warner, promised during the '01 gubernatorial campaign that he wouldn't raise taxes but then saddled Virginia taxpayers...

    Political Director's Update 5th Edition August 14, 2008 Go Door to Door with Jim Gilmore! No summer slow-down for the Gilmore campaign this weekend!! Join us and our fellow GOP candidates as we go door to door around the Commonwealth! Details on staging locations are below. Also, for those in Fairfax County in the Braddock District, you can join Jim Gilmore for precinct walking at 10:00 am this Saturday. Information below. Join Jim Gilmore at Fairfax Republican Headquarters 4246 Chain Bridge Rd in Fairfax 10:00 am Click here for a map Albemarle CountyCharlottesville Saturday August 16th 10:00...

Mark Warner's Broken Promises

Jim Gilmore’s Plan To Increase America’s Energy Resources 1. Drill for oil in ANWR. ANWR is 19 million acres, the size of South Carolina. The proposed drilling site is just one sixth the size of Dulles Airport. And yet ANWR can provide America with more oil than our nation would receive from Saudi Arabia in the next 30 years. This would mean more than one million barrels of oil per day – 27 million barrels of gasoline a day to help increase gasoline supplies and cut prices. 2. Drill for oil offshore. As a result of a 1981 ban by...

“The old style of politics of saying anything to get elected is not what we need,” candidate Warner said. When his Republican opponent, Mark Earley, warned that Warner would raise taxes if elected, Warner said, “The fact is that I will not raise taxes. My plan states it. I’ve said it throughout this campaign. And no matter how many times my opponent may say otherwise, I will not raise your taxes.” Once elected, Warner proudly presided over the largest tax increase in Virginia’s history. Other than that breathtaking deceit, he accomplished virtually nothing as governor — and now he’s likely...

Warner served as governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. Gilmore served as governor from 1998 to 2002. He said Warner "opposes drilling in ANWR, and he (Warner) is all over the place on offshore drilling." At the campaign stop in Rocky Mount last week, Warner called for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling and allow states to make their own decision. But Gilmore said that Warner vetoed an offshore drilling bill that was passed by the General Assembly while he was governor. Speaking to nearly 100 people at the campaign event, Gilmore said he is a candidate...

A busy couple of days for Republican Senate candidate Jim Gilmore. He just wrapped up a two day, 14 city tour. It included stops this morning in Martinsville and Wednesday afternoon in Lynchburg. Gilmore's campaign chairman says the former Governor has shifted the scope of his political message. He used to speak mainly about cutting taxes and energy costs. Now, Gilmore has started going after opponent Mark Warner, calling him untrustworthy. Jim Gilmore, (R) U.S. Senate Candidate - "Ask the people of Virginia whether trust actually matters. Whether or not in fact really going into public office and keeping your...

Former Virginia governor James S. Gilmore III, the state's Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, submitted false information on two financial disclosure forms that hid his ties to a government contractor embroiled in a legal dispute over allegations that two of its executives had conspired to defraud the federal government. On the forms, the first filed in June 2007 for his presidential campaign and the second in May after he joined the U.S. Senate race, Gilmore said he was on the board of Windmill International. Gilmore, who signed his name attesting that the information on the forms was "complete and...

The former governors are competing for the Senate seat held by Republican John Warner, who will retire after three decades in office. John Warner and Mark Warner are not related. Energy emerged as the dominant policy issue in Saturday's debate. But Gilmore said the election will turn on the issue of trust, and chided Warner for breaking a 2001 campaign promise not to raise taxes. "The question is who do you trust --a person who sticks with it and delivers on the car tax cut and does what he says he's going to do, or a person who casually brushes...

A Reminder of Mark Warner's 2001 "No Tax Pledge" "The voters of Virginia know all too well as evidenced by the 2001 gubernatorial debates, where Mark Warner repeatedly pledged to the working families of Virginia that he would not raise taxes, that he broke that promise upon taking office and instead gave Virginians a $1.4 billion tax increase, the largest in Virginia history, despite there being a significant budget surplus of $324 million."

It’s the pain everyone feels from coast to coast: sky high gas prices. This week, President Bush moved to lower those prices by calling for lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling. It’s a move that could have long term impacts, but Bush admits it won’t produce any oil in the short term. So, what’s he up to? “Talk is action in Washington,” said WSLS Political Analyst Dr. Bob Denton. Denton says by stepping up to the mic, the president shows he gets it. “It reinforces the image that I am a leader. I am listening. And, I am doing.”...

Republican Jim Gilmore reported raising $480,000 from March through June, still far from the amount his Senate foe, Democrat Mark Warner (web|bio), raised over the same period. Gilmore, the state's 68th governor, trails Warner, the 69th governor, in both polls and fundraising in their race to succeed Senator John Warner in November.

Former Gov. Jim Gilmore, Republican Virginia candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. John Warner, will debate his opponent Mark Warner at the first debate of the campaign, this Saturday, July 19th at 11:00 a.m. The debate, which is hosted by the Virginia Bar Association, will take place during their annual meeting at the Homestead in Hot Springs, VA. Political columnist, David Broder, will serve as the debate moderator.

RICHMOND -- Former Virginia Gov. Mark, who lied to the working families of Virginia when he said he would not raise their taxes, unveiled another whopper today when he went on the air on television stations across the state with a 30-second television commercial called “Energy Plan.” The commercial says Warner has proposed a plan to help make America independent of foreign oil including “Expand oil and gas production at home.” And yet, Warner is on the record repeatedly opposing efforts to increase U.S. oil production by drilling in ANWR in Alaska and drilling for oil offshore. Warner’s so-called Energy...

Former Gov. Jim Gilmore, Republican Virginia candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. John Warner, will debate his opponent Mark Warner at the first debate of the campaign, this Saturday, July 19th at 11:00 a.m. The debate, which is hosted by the Virginia Bar Association, will take place during their annual meeting at the Homestead in Hot Springs, VA. Political columnist, David Broder, will serve as the debate moderator.

After his visit to the Heathsville Farmers Market Saturday, former governor Gilmore's bumper stickers may become more frequently seen. Although GilmoreÕs campaign gave local Republican leaders only a day's notice of his intention to visit Heathsville, "On short notice, we didn't have a bad turn-out," Northumberland County GOP chairman Jeanne Kling said. About a dozen GOP stalwarts, including Lee Ann Washington, who ran unsuccessfully against Albert Pollard for the House of Delegates in February, were at the Republican tent at the market to greet Gilmore. Gilmore had intended to stay in Heathsville only about a half an hour before going...

I served on the House Appropriations Committee during Mark Warner’s term as governor. Here are the facts he would like you to forget. Virginia is a balanced budget state. The General Assembly must pass and the governor must sign a balanced budget. Warner’s predecessor, Gov. Jim Gilmore, submitted a final budget that was balanced as required by Virginia’s Constitution. It was only two years later that Mark Warner decided he needed to raise taxes because he did not have enough taxpayers’ money to spend. A recent Warner TV commercial claims he cut spending, but state budgets rose 24.7 percent during...

Mr. Gilmore called Mr. Warner an "elite limousine liberal," a "knave" on foreign policy, and a "piranha" hungry for tax money. Mr. Gilmore repeatedly hit Mr. Warner, his successor as governor, for breaking a 2001 campaign promise by raising taxes $1.4 billion.

Whether effective or not, the energy proposals coming out of Congress have caught fire on the campaign trail. That's why former Republican Gov. Jim Gilmore, a candidate for U.S. Senate, has been visiting gas stations around Virginia collecting anecdotes from consumers struggling with soaring energy costs. Gilmore, who rode into the governor's mansion on a "no car tax" slogan, has a new one for his Senate race: "Drill here. Drill now. Cut gas prices." "I believe drilling for oil now is critical," Gilmore said. "I think that will drop prices immediately. International oil markets are very sensitive." His opponent, former...