“Get real! You have never heard or seen Colgan say he
supports a gas tax on top of the Transportation bill.”

What are you talking about??!!
Colgan sponsored legislation that would have increased the gas and diesel taxes by 7 cents per gallon. ( SB 357 , 2004) Colgan voted for an additional 5% tax on gasoline. (2/17/06 Floor Vote on SB 708 , 2/14/06 Finance Vote on SB 708) Colgan said “I would place a 5-percent sales tax on the wholesale price of gasoline and diesel fuel.” (Gainesville Times) “Colgan said a gas tax would be a much simpler way to raise money for roads.”( 7/27/07 Potomac News )

See the two articles below. One points out Ken Stolle is helping to fund FitzSimmonds campaign. The second shows it is actually the Ken Stolle Gas Tax.

Chichester Supports Democrats In Election
GOP Senator Sends Signal to Conservatives

By Tim Craig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 18, 2007; Page B01
With Chichester retiring, moderates are being forced to support several conservatives so Republicans can keep their majorities. Chichester’s political organization, now led by Sen. Walter A. Stosch (R-Henrico) and Sen. Kenneth W. Stolle (R-Virginia Beach), is paying for Stall’s campaign manager and making direct contributions to FitzSimmonds.

By CHRISTINA NUCKOLS, The Virginian-Pilot
© February 22, 2007

RICHMOND - Hampton Roads lawmakers hope to announce a regional transportation plan, which could include a gasoline tax, late today or Friday morning.

Legislators warned that final details could still change today as they seek support for their proposal from other members of the House and Senate. The regional plan also is dependent on separate negotiations, which are ongoing, over a statewide plan that would generate money for road construction and maintenance.

Hampton Roads legislators held a morning telephone conference with local government leaders seeking feedback on their proposal.

“My message to them was: ‘I don’t care if you hate this package. This is your opportunity to get transportation this year. If you don’t like components, you can try to come back later and make some changes,’ ” said Sen. Kenneth Stolle, R-Virginia Beach, one of the negotiators on the regional plan.

Stolle predicted a vote on the final road proposal likely will not occur until Saturday - the final day before the General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn for the year.

Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim and other local officials on the conference call said they favor a regional gas tax of approximately 8 cents per gallon. They asked lawmakers to incorporate a fuel tax in their final proposal and eliminate proposed tax increases on hotel rooms and commercial real estate.

“We really believe the gas tax is the way to go,” Fraim said.

Stolle and other lawmakers said they are sympathetic to local officials’ preferences but will not include a gasoline tax in their plan unless they are certain they can win majority support in the House and Senate.

“There’s a lot of support for it back in the community and there’s growing support among the General Assembly members, but we’re just not there yet,” Stolle said. “I’m not sure we’ll get there by Saturday.”

House Speaker Bill Howell, R-Stafford, has previously resisted proposals to include gasoline and sales taxes in a final transportation deal this year. However, he was careful to avoid criticism when asked about the Hampton Roads idea Wednesday, and noted that his legislative district is included in a regional 2 percent gasoline tax for Northern Virginia.

The Hampton Roads regional authority will need to generate about $200 million annually to pay for top-priority projects, including improvements to U.S. 460 and Interstate 64.

In a letter Wednesday to Stolle and Del. Chris Jones, R-Suffolk, local government leaders said support for a regional transportation authority is uncertain if they are forced to rely on hotel and commercial real estate taxes to pay for road projects.

The proposed regional plan calls for at least six of the 11 Hampton Roads cities and counties to join the transportation authority before it would have the power to raise revenues.

The regional taxes and fees would then be imposed on all the region’s localities.

In their letter to Stolle and Jones, local leaders said they want the law to be changed so that the six affirmative votes should have to include cities that collectively represent 50 percent of the region’s population.

Fraim, who signed the letter on behalf of the cities and counties, said there is broad agreement among local governments that an increase in the hotel tax would be a “poison pill” that could block formation of an authority.

Raising the commercial real estate tax could cost the authority support from some of the region’s largest localities, he said. Virginia Beach officials have been the most vocal critics of the commercial real estate tax increase, but the levy also could have a significant impact on Norfolk’s ability to attract new businesses.

Reach Christina Nuckols at (804) 697-1562 or christina.nuckols@pilotonline.com.

Get real! You have never heard or seen Colgan say he
supports a gas tax on top of the Transportation bill.

Is there a forum with people who will actually listen to the truth?

I concur with Colgan voter (maybe). I actually like Colgan but this latest set of “I am” statements are absurd! I know Colgan has been for raising the gas tax to pay for transportation fixes. And I have to say that most of the other statements seem to be of the “week before election” types that he really doesn’t believe but must state to be reelected. Well, not with my vote! Colgan has done a lot for us here in PWC but I am willing to give somebody else I trust a chance to build the same type of resume of service to PWC.

how in the heck can you say that Senator Colgan does not support an increase in the gas tax??? I have heard him over and over and over and over say that he wants to increase the gas tax for transportation funding.

I like Senator Colgan very much, but making statements like this borders on the absurd. Do you think people simply never listen all year until election time?

I either agree with or simply dont know about his views on the other 10 bullet points you posted, but to say that he does not agree with an increase in the gas tax goes against everything I have heard the Senator say about this tax for the past couple years.

Mr. Snyder, could you please elaborate or justify your first bullet point that says “I do NOT SUPPORT any increase in the gas tax”.

Unless the Senator changed his position on this last week, I know that this is an un-true statement.

From todays JM
FitzSimmonds denied several of the assertions made in the Democratic ads, including those regarding his position on abortion laws. He said the accusations in the mailing and in television ads are complete fabrications and called on Comcast to “stop airing these lies.”

“Let me be clear, neither I nor my former boss have ever taken a position that women should be arrested for having an abortion …”

Okay so you think abortion should be illegal but people whi have them should not go to jail. So what he advocates amnesty as he did for illegal aliens. Get a grip Bob, stand for something, this is supposed to be your big issue.

Senator Colgan’s entire voting record reflects a pro-life position. I don’t know anything else the man can do other than stand on his record.

The DPVA flyer did not use Colgan’s name. Colgan did not authorize it.

When I talk about reproductive rights, I do not necessarily mean abortion. Reproductive rights run the entire gamut of reproductive choice which includes when or if to have children, what type of birth control to use, making sure safe reliable birth control is available, having emergency contraception like the morning after pill, and yes, abortion. The list is extensive and my examples certainly are only a sampling of what can be included under the topic of reproductive rights.

Until the 60’s, women had very few reproductive rights and even fewer options. Talk to some of the grandmothers and great-grandmothers. They can tell you some scary stories.

Right wing extremists will not support a mainstream candidate like Senator Colgan, despite his voting record. Fortunately, Senator Colgan has never locked himself into this agenda but has instead, looked to major issues that affect most mainstream Virginians. Education, transportation, state money allocations, are the issues most of us are concerned with and we will continue to support the man with a proven track record– Senator Chuck Colgan.

For a delegate, at some point, saying you are pro-life does not mean much if the delegate is no longer willing to do anything about it. I called Colgan’s campaing, and they assured me that Colgan was looking for ways to reassure the pro-life voter that the message from the DPVA did not accurately reflect his views. I have not seen anything yet that reassures me.

Way to go BOB.

This is the most ridiculous spin I have ever read. You obviously haven’t seen the flyer or you would know that it was about reproductive rights in general.

Sentator Colgan is not obsessed. You apparently are. He is pro-life. Game over.

The DPVA is sending out the same time of literature on behalf of Rishell who at the debate stated that the decision to have an abortion was like the decision to go to war, i.e., that it was a decision of deciding whether the unborn child was a dangerous enough enemy to justify killing it. That Colgan is part of this anti-life party indicates to me that he is not serious about being pro-life.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.” - Goebbels/Nazi

Greg, you are starting to pull Rishells - just making
things up - thought you were better than that.

• I do NOT SUPPORT any increase in the gas tax

• I do NOT SUPPORT allowing in-state tuition for
illegal immigrants

• I do NOT SUPPORT allowing illegal immigrants
to obtain driver’s licenses

• I do NOT SUPPORT allowing employers to hire or retain illegal immigrants

• I do NOT SUPPORT the proposed powerline through western Prince William County

• I do SUPPORT new and stronger laws allowing local governments to get tough on overcrowding and related neighborhood land use issues

• I do SUPPORT increased State funding to train local police to detect and detain illegal immigrants

• I do SUPPORT changing the State transportation funding formula to return more money to our region

• I do SUPPORT new laws giving local governments better tools to manage growth and development

• I do SUPPORT higher teacher pay and smaller class sizes

• I AM Pro-Life

Senator Chuck Colgan

Oh I know what Bob said. I also know less than 6 months ago he told a friend in Bramear he was for Amnesty. Tell me, is it the Bush administration that allowed 500,000 El Salvadorian nationals to have their visa repeatedly extended. The original visa should have expired in 2001. That ma’am is fact. Chuck Colgan doesn’t have that kind of authority.

Greg is the one passing the kool aide around and you have had plenty. Next year your going to wake up and the resolution will have changed nothing, then who will you be mad at.

Bob answered that question at the debate. He said he would vote for a pro-life candidate. You either are lying about being at the debate or you are so brainwashed by Colgan that you didn’t hear what he really said.

Boy, and I thought Rev. Jim Jones was good at brainwashing.

So I guess you are a charter member of the Colgan Cult.

Hey Billy Boy, why don’t you prop open your screen door at night and see who comes knocking….especially around 11:00 pm and after. Do you have the guts to do it? And when these “El Salvardoran legals” (as ol’ Chuck likes to call them) show up, you can thank Chuck Colgan. They should know ol’ Chuck real well since he says he converses with them on a regular basis.

I guess you would still vote for Chuck Colgan even if he was holding a gun to our heads. And he really is holding a gun to our head because he has done NOTHING about ILLEGAL ALIENS and he will continue to DO NOTHING ABOUT ILLEGAL ALIENS.

If any of you out there would like something done about illegal aliens VOTE BOB FITZSIMMONDS because he will do something and not just say it.

As for Colgan flip flopping that is such a crock. Bob Fitzsimonds is the one who told people he was for amnesty not 6 months ago. Greg and Corey Stewart dragged him tho the right side of the issue. 90% of the time Chuck Colgan has voted the way I would on immigration. UNlike Fitzsimmonds he tells the truth.

I have a question. Colgan voted to make it illegal for an illegal
alien to get a drivers license. Then they voted to make illegal
aliens check a box that said they are illegal when get a drivers license to make sure they could not vote. Okay well if they can’t get a drivers license they cannot use motor voter.

Gone Fishing, sorry I assumed you knew the Colgan family.

Customs and Immigration are in a sense token services. Any plausible-looking person can find many ways to come and go unimpeded. Anything that can be flown or floated can be brought in or taken out. We are a wide place in the road in the middle of the world, and they wander through, back and forth, marveling at the lack of restraints. It is … a paradox. The openness which endangers our system is the product of the policy which says that to close our borders and enforce all our rules and back them up with guns would change the system just as completely as any alien force.

Wasn’t that well into the Reagan era?

I had to cheat and look it up. Thanks The Dude, for some new vocab!