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Colgan’s Self-Inflicted Head Wound
By Greg L | 5 February 2007 | 29th VA Senate | 5 Comments
Amidst all the furor over Senator John Chichester’s proposed plan to raise gas taxes by 5% as an alternative to the compromise plan on transportation, Senator Charles “Chuck” Colgan’s (D-29) support for this atrocious plan has been overlooked. It really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Colgan would be interested in a tax hike during a time when the state is running a budget surplus, given that he seems to mention tax hikes at every opportunity, and had proposed a tax raise on gasoline distributors last year that he strangely asserted would not end up being paid by consumers. Since his idea for a 5% tax on distributors failed before, he’s decided to throw in with Chichester for a 5% tax hike on retail gasoline as proposed in SB1379. One way or the other, Colgan seems bound and determined to make fuel more expensive.
Colgan just handed his Republican opponent Bob Fitzsimmonds, who will be the official nominee perhaps as early as this evening, a wonderful campaign issue, and one that Fitzsimmonds is certain to employ to great advantage. Although there was some discussion about the relative merits of the House-propposed transportation compromise, there is near univerasal agreement about how completely awful this Chichester-Potts-Colgan plan is. If the Senate passes SB1379, it will largely innoculate House Republicans from blame for a failure to reach a compromise on transportation, prevent an intra-party battle about whether the compromise would indeed be supported despite some troubling components, and unify fiscal conservatives in their determination to cause a wholesale reorganization of the membership of the Virginia Senate.
Along with the howls for the removal of Chichester and Potts will come the crusade to retire Chuck Colgan in the 29th District. With the chaos in the PWCDC, this is an awfully risky move on Colgan’s part. The liberal Republicans and their Democratic co-conspirators like Colgan have affixed bullseyes to their foreheads and invited potshots with this act. Shooting will commence momentarily.
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That may be true but Colgan will beat your candidate Fitzsimmonds, just like he did in 2003, if Colgan runs.
It is quite obvious that you have not seen the polling numbers on just how unpopular this tax increase is in PWC. Futhermore Fitz is the one race that the GOP can pick up in 07.
I think Puller had an editorial in the paper which played the same tired story, that somehow he thought Maryland’s gasoline costs weren’t any higher than ours.
I doubt “Fitz is the one race the GOP can pick up in 07″ if Fitz runs. Fitz could pick up the race if the Republicans find someone with wider appeal and a better record than Fitz. Unless Colgan doesn’t run. Then Fitz might have a chance, depending on how silly the Democratic alternative is.
Any Democratic alternative in PWC would be silly.