Mark Warner Displays Incompetence
By Greg L | 17 June 2008 | Virginia Politics, US Senate | 17 Comments
Mark Warner decided to weigh in on the illegal alien issue in an interview with the Clarke Times-Courier, demonstrating at best his utter incompetence on this issue. For someone who is expected to have a good grasp on the issues that most concern Virginia voters, Mark Warner absolutely is falling far short of that mark. This remark could simply be just a case of Warner manufacturing his own truth, hoping that this alternate reality would support his position on the issue, but more likely is the case that Mark Warner, who has been entirely absent in this debate, simply has no idea what he is talking about.
You’ve got different rules based on different jurisdictions, and I know I’ve seen here in the county a tremendous increase in local taxes to try and pay for this,” stated Warner.
By “tremendous”, one would assume that Warner is referring to a figure in excess of the one and a half billion dollar tax hike he proposed as Governor in 2004, or at least in excess of the percentage that the one and a half billion dollar increase represented as part of the budget for Virginia. In fiscal year 2005, the operating budget for the State of Virginia was $29.257 billion dollars, making Warner’s “non-tremendous” tax hike a pretty significant 5% hike. Prince William County on the other hand approved $2.6 million in spending on enforcement of the Rule of Law Resolution out of a budget of $923 million, which represents a spending increase of 0.28%. So Mark Warner considers a 0.28% spending increase “tremendous”, but a 5% tax increase that was his idea is “modest?” This is just plain bizarre.
Perhaps Mark Warner just hasn’t any idea what he is talking about. It’s not like he’s displayed anything approaching “leadership” on this issue, and he has been noticeably absent in every discussion on this topic. He doesn’t ever seem to come to Prince William County in order to find out what’s going on, and he’s never attended any of the numerous meetings of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors when this was being discussed. His proposed “solution”, as this article reports, would be to have the federal government handle the problem, and stop states and localities from doing anything to protect their residents from the impacts of illegal immigration that the United States Government has proven itself entirely unable to address.
You’d think that someone running for the United States Senate could at least have the ability to talk intelligently about what is one of the top issues among Virginia voters, even if you disagreed with his policy positions. Mark Warner apparently cannot. If he can’t even get his facts straight, it is unlikely that the decisions he would make based upon that horribly flawed grasp on reality would benefit Virginia in any way.
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Mark should put his money where his mouth is and openly support the illegal who raped the ten year old. Since he does not seem to have a problem with illegals, he should not have a problem publicly supporting the guy and inviting him over to stay with his family.
He’s not getting my vote. The Federal Government can’t even run a successful restaurant in the senate. What makes me think they are going to successfully stop the illegal aliens. Wait!! They will pass a bill (I like how they call it a bill) in the middle of the night and force us to accept the illegals as equals. Because as we know our constitutional rights are not just for American citizens. They are for everybody including illegal aliens and terrorists. Why should us citizens of the U.S.A think we are special. Thank you Mark Warner. Thank you for putting us in our place. Thank you for talking down to the “little people”.
“increase in local taxes to try and pay for this,” stated Warner.
The word “try” seems so odd.
Why shouldn’t he run on this flawed grasp on reality? It worked for Webb!
What is Gilmore’s stance on the issue?
Perhaps Mark Warner isn’t obsessed. I feel certain he didn’t make that statement in isolation.
That’s quite a leap there, CoM. Surely even you don’t believe anyone supports a child rapist.
He is going to crush Gilmore!! I love it, you guys will be pissed for years.
Greg L: You’d think that someone running for the United States Senate could at least have the ability to talk intelligently about what is one of the top issues among Virginia voters
That is baloney according to Rasmussen:
“Economic issues are the number one concern of 38% of Virginia voters, with another nine percent (9%) citing fiscal issues as preeminent; 28% rate national security as most important. ”
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/virginia/election_2008_virginia_presidential_election
Illegal immigration barely makes a blip.
And there is this:
Election 2008: Virginia Senate
Virginia Senate: Warner Widens Lead in the Old Dominion
Monday, June 16, 2008
Democrat Mark Warner has widened his lead against Republican Jim Gilmore in the race for Virginia’s senate seat. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows Warner earning 60% of the vote while Gilmore attracts 33%.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_senate_elections/virginia/election_2008_virginia_senate
Warner is blowing Gilmore out of the water, and probably will win Virginia for Obama.
Warner is for amnesty. I emailed one of his campaign managers looking for his stance on the issue and he emailed me back to say that Warner is for “comprehensive immigration reform”.
Since it looks like he has a pretty good chance of getting elected we should bombard him on the issue and let him know what the citizens of VA really want in an immigration policy.
I just saw a campaign ad for Warner, he touted how he turned around the Commonwealth and turned a deficit into a surplus. The ad continued by stating how Warner “invested” in jobs and education, and how he reformed the tax code. Of course the ad did not state he raised taxes. I suppose in keeping with his lying, this ad should not be surprising.
well said lady xx. The following should be sentto anyone who want to end the war on terrorism and cites money as the reason. There’s $3,383 Billion available in Federal, State and local budgets being used to combat the effects of illegal immigration. A friend of mine sent me the following:
Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us & it. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL’s for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cisorg/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cisorg/articles/ 2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spen t to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal al iens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at:
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars! a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report:
http://www.tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.’
Verify at:
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/de portation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/ niht.htm
14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States
Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is! a whopping $ 3383 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Dolph said on 17 Jun 2008 at 11:26 pm:
Perhaps Mark Warner isn’t obsessed. I feel certain he didn’t make that statement in isolation.
That’s quite a leap there, CoM. Surely even you don’t believe anyone supports a child rapist.
Obsession has nothing to do with it. Mr. Warner made a statement that shows, at best a lack of knowledge of the situation in Prince William County. If the Commonwealth would actually take some action against illegal immigration, instead of deferring to the Feds, there would not be a need for jurisdictions to have different rules. Emperor Kaine is fiddling while Rome burns. And Senator Colgan is apparently playing the banjo.
Ducky: A smart candidate will help the voters understand the link between economic problems and illegal immigration.
Dolph: Anyone who conveys a lack of concern about an illegal alien child rapist is in effect supporting him.
Monitcup, have you filled your gas tank lately? Explain to me the link between illegal immigration and the price of gas.
On second thought, forget it. We’ll see what happens in November.
Are DUCKY and DOLF the same person. Both have a lot in common other than being water lovi’n mammals. SPALSH - QUACK
jfk said on 18 Jun 2008 at 9:50 am:
Colgan is apparently playing the banjo.
Bet he ain’t singing “Carry Me Back to Ole Virginy.”