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Now He Tells Us…
By Greg L | 10 November 2008 | Fairfax County, US Congress, Prince William County | 28 Comments
Less than one week after becoming Congressman-elect, Gerry Connolly is calling for a hike in the federal gas tax. I suppose he feels as a first-term Congressman he’s going to pull the weight necessary to earmark all this for the 11th District? Or does he feel its a good idea to get ahead of the pack of Congress Critters that are expected to propose all sorts of tax hikes in order to “help stimulate” the economy? As Right Wing Liberal notes, one wonders if voters might have made a different choice if Connolly had mentioned this before November 4.
From WTOP:
Congressman-elect Gerry Connolly (D-VA) on WTOP’s Politics Program with Mark Plotkin said one of his top priorities will be transportation funding. And one possible way to raise the necessary funds could be an increase to the federal gas tax.
“If the gas tax is the way we do that, so be it. It hasn’t been raised in a long time,” Connolly said. “I hate to talk about raising taxes first thing out, but we have to stabilize the revenue source for the Federal Highway Trust Fund.”
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Wow Fairfax. Congratulations you morons. You went for Obama, and Connolly. Thanks a lot.
Didn’t you just know crap like this was coming??? Do you think Gerry can steer a contract to still current employer SAIC to study how to spend the money?
Raising the gas tax is not going to help one bit. There are too many people, too many cars and too many people who do not want additional roads.
Besides, exactly how many additional lanes can be added to the beltway? How about to Route 66 or Route 50 in Virginia? How about Route 29? The hot lanes were protested, the inter-County connector in Maryland faced decades of debate and was opposed by many.
Metro needs billions of dollars just to maintain current service levels and future service levels without expanision.
I thought the Dems wanted us to stop using gas, and here this guy, a Dem, is asking us to continue to stay dependent on gas in order to raise funds for transportation projects.
Terry McAuliffe is running for VA governor.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94C7GAG1&show_article=1
Now that Tom Davis is gone. Who do you suggest we send our emails and campaign donations to? Frank Wolf?
Ashamed of Virginia said on 10 Nov 2008: Wow Fairfax. Congratulations you morons………
Some of us in Fairfax could say the same about PWC. Many of us in Fairfax aren’t in the 11th district and therefore not part of the voting process.
Connolly was voted into office to “lead” the Fairfax County Board or Supervisors as the tax and spend leader. He was promoted - by Fairfax and PWC voters - to Congressional Representative.
Why should he not think his constituents are on board with his tax and spend policy?
We get what we vote for. Some of us are stuck with what our neighbors vote for.
And speaking of Communists just recently elected, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80663
It worked so well for the ussr that the usa had to send wheat to them for decades so they wouldn’t starve. Hopefully, some generous country will do that for us. yeah, right.
Gun show November 21 thru 23, at the Expo Center in Chantilly.
Happy Veterans Day to those who have and are serving our great country.
Thank you.
Anonymous said on 10 Nov 2008 at 11:11 pm: Flag comment
Terry McAuliffe is running for VA governor.
Let him and Moran fight it out for the Demoncrat nomination.
legal2 said on 11 Nov 2008 at 8:53 am: Flag comment
Gun show November 21 thru 23, at the Expo Center in Chantilly.
Buy em up now. They many not be available in the coming months if Obamarama has his way.
How could anyone contemplate raising fuel costs, when we finally got a respite from $4.00 a gallon gas? I say respite, because prices will go back up again thanks to OPEC and folks in Congress that want to raise taxes. Even Mr. Obama said, during the height of gas prices, that he was not upset at the price of gas, but he wished it hadn’t gone up as quickly as it did. Gas prices had a large role in our current economic mess. I guess Mr. Connolly hasn’t figured that out yet.
BTW, Keith Fimian was no great candidate either. He had minimal to no government experience, and was very moderate on several issues (read immigration). The Obamas and Connolly’s might not have won if the GOP had offered stronger candidates to run against them.
I’m not surprised. Let the fun begin in the 11th Congressional District!
Keith Fimian was a nice guy who thought he could run a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington outsider campaign. He didn’t have a great resume for office. The guy is no slouch - he’s a successful small businessman. He picked one issue to focus on - energy - and we all lost interest in it when the price of gas went back down again. He was easy pickings for the more cynical and devious political types, like the DCCC and their propaganda machine, who have no problem playing six degrees of separation to turn a devout husband and father (of all daughters, I believe!) into some sort of out-of-touch misogynist who wants to deprive us women of all our rights.
Also, Fimian kept talking about smaller government in a district where a plurality of the employed people work for the government or for government contractors. First timer mistakes. If the government shrinks, then a huge chunk of his constituents get hurt by association. Good sentiment (the government has lots of waste), but wrong place to highlight it in a questionable economy.
Also, he was a little weak in that he didn’t have a public service resume of any sort and Gerry Connolly could rattle off his awards and endorsements over the years. Connolly had a whole network of supportors sewn up because he’d been a local official. The realtors PAC loved him. Did you see their cheesy ads?
Would most of us have been better off with Fimian? Sure. He gave it his best shot. He stepped up and he tried. It’s too easy to Monday (Tuesday?) morning quarterback him. No candidate is perfect. He did okay in the tally, considering that he really was a political outsider. He was always a longshot.
I’m more disappointed that we recycled candidates with no hope. Like Jim Gilmore. I thank him for his past service, but the Republicans did not run a strong candidate for Senate. A not-so-popular past Governor is the best we could do for a targeted Senate seat?
As I said on another blog this a.m., it’s time to look forward and not backward. That’s one good thing about a trouncing on Election Day. It makes you rethink your strategy.
Ashamed of Virginia represents the willful ignorance of many Republicans. Let’s say that Prince William County is (as many on this board believe) the center of the known universe. Let’s say that everybody deferred to the citizens of Prince William County and only PWC’s votes were counted.
Would Fimian have beaten Connolly?
Would McCain have beaten Obama?
The Democrats have bridged the NoVA / RoVA gap while the Republicans are still arguing county-by-county. And the Republican county-by-county argument is bizarre in its lack of facts. I live in Fairfax County. My representative is Republican Frank Wolf. Now, tell me again how I am to blame for Fimian’s loss?
As for the governor’s race - keep thinking that Brian Moran is Jim Moran. Keep thinking Terry McCauliffe is a weak candidate because he lacks statewide credentials. Obama lacked a lot of credentials but it’s he who will be inaugurated in January - not a Republican.
Groveton said on 11 Nov 2008 at 12:36 pm: Flag comment
Obama lacked a lot of credentials but it’s he who will be inaugurated in January - not a Republican.
He who has the most money, gets all the toys!
Groveton,
So, you will be happy paying additional taxes under Gerry, I can’t drive, and Obama, I’m sorry I’m late?
People have to realize that while they bitched about the high cost of gas, and blamed the oil companies, the Dems can’t wait to raise the price even more. Obama stated the only bad thing about $4.00 a gallon gas is we got there to fast. The Dems want gas prices to sky rocket just so demand goes down. They don’t have any other plan for a way to power cars, they just want to keep the price high and that will cause people to use mass transit, which is fine, but we are not set up for that right now, and won’t be for a long time.
And, what is wrong with targeting Counties? If the GOP wins each County, they win the District right/
I am not happy about anything Gerry does. But I didn’t get to vote against him because I don’t live in his district. My point is that electing people like Gerry Connolly to the US Congress has nothing to do with Fairfax County vs. Prince William County. It has to do with Republican fund raising, the quality and experience of the Republican candidates and the effectiveness of expressing the Republican message. And the more people like Ashamed of Virginia try to make Connolly’s election a matter of rivalry between two adjacent counties the more the Republican eyes are taken off the real ball - the 2009 state-wide elections.
It’s time to drop the PWC vs. Fairfax County vs. “the people’s Republic of Arlington”, etc crap. It diminishes the content of the message the Republicans need to put forth. George Allen, living in Mt Vernon, railed about “the real Virginia” at his campaign rallies in southwest Virginia. Now we have Sen. Webb. The Democrats have largely learned to stop the intra-state insults and bickering (a certain GA member from Annandale - a noted exception). How long will it take the Republicans to do the same?
If you guys continue to make things an us vs. them battle at the county level (or the regional level for that matter) you will keep losing.
I agree with Groveton. The us versus them battle is a losing one.
I lived in Arlington for years. A Republican could never catch a break there, unless he called himself an independent. Not so in Fairfax, or in any other County. My original polling place in MA had more votes/higher % for McCain than my new polling place in Fairfax.
Gerry’s departure means the Chairman of the Fairfax County BOS job is open. I know it may not interest people in PWC as much, but there is an excellent Republican candidate for that job in Pat Herrity.
I personally believe that we have some quality candidates for ‘09 who put the party before their egos. We could be looking at a McDonnell versus Bolling smack down primary, but at least they are cooperating for the common good. If we can hold or gain ground in the local and state level of government, we can regain what we’ve lost in Senate and Congress.
There is a backlash against W. Virginia is caught in it. It won’t last forever. Instead of complaining, we need to decide what to do next.
I doubt Jeff Frederick could have stopped the backlash. I didn’t support him for chairman of RPV, but that’s another matter. He is the chairman. He won. It’s okay to criticize, but really, we have to help him to help us. (And I believe he needs help.) Or we can complain. I figure a week after the election, the time to complain is over and we start thinking about what we do next and what we do better.
Sorry, I left out a sentence at the beginning. I meant to say at the end of the first paragraph that McCain still got a much higher number/% of votes in Fairfax than in Arlington; albeit not nearly enough. (Kind of obvious, though.)
(1) And we’re surprised why? This info would not have cost Con-man the race had it been known priot to Election Day.
(B) Stop with the name calling. You are all morons in Fairfax and PW counties for the votes cast. We here in my 8th-CD are BIGGER morons for continuing to reelect Jim “the moron” Moran, so there. Help me raise $2.5 million and will gladly take him on in 2010.
(3) There will be no VA primary for governor as McDonnell will be unapposed and Bolling is running for reelection for lt. gov. with nominal opposition in some guy from Alexandria I never heard of, and I live there. The key race for the VA GOP will be the three-way race for AG between former Arlington County School Board member Dave Foster - who not only won election in Arlington, but won REelection; VA State Senator Ken Cuccinelli, a good conservative; and John Brownlee, who admittedly I know nothing about.
(4) We need to grow the party from the ground up with our young conservatives.
Well, it seems the Dems play the game of “us vs them”, except they play it as the educated against the rednecked bigots.
I agree the fundraising needs to improve and we need to focus on the issues and the message. However, we do need to point out how the Dems view the real Virginia and how they want it to be, just as a point of difference between the two parties. For example do we want Virginia to turn into another liberal NE State where people are leaving? Or, do we want to preserve the Virginia that made it a place to move to? Which is low taxes, good schools, a friendly business enviroment?
(B) Stop with the name calling. You are all morons in Fairfax and PW counties for the votes cast. We here in my 8th-CD are BIGGER morons for continuing to reelect Jim “the moron” Moran, so there. Help me raise $2.5 million and will gladly take him on in 2010……………..
Whoa Sanford, I’m in the 8th district and NEVER voted for Moran. Not only do I vote for whomever runs against him, I work tirelessly on the campaign, but sometimes name recognition just wins the race.
I NEVER voted for Connolly either.
Let us see how many real republicans are there when the cuts schoolconstuction spending in your nice new pristeen neighborhoods. How about sending your kids to an all trailor school where there is no hot lunches and the toilets are porta johns!!!! You cheese and wine folk who got the GM center for the arts paid for by us working class stiffs are in for a rude awakening. Maybe you guys can see how it is like in the real Prince William County finally. Disgruntled westgate elementary district parent. The schoolboard will not be able to cook the books on school spending due to new homes being built. Where does the money come from to buld infrastructer anyway? The ultra elite has brainwashed you on taxes. We are not some third world country. You republican self made hocus pocus self reliant SOB wait untill your goverment ars gets laid off and you loose your health insurance and your kid comes up sick. Let Gillmore show you the tea leaves because that is his answere. It is about to get real bad out here people, worse than I remember as a kid in Manassas park when over half the kids in the school picture had patches on their cloths in 1975 in 1 st grade. Do you guys really like sitting on I 66 at the 234 bottle neck when the state could have easily added a temp third lane? Keep them gas taxes low so we can build cheap subdivisions in the hinterland that were speculated on 20 years ago. What side on the fence are we on Northern Virginia?
Wow Joseph. You talk about cutting school construction like received some benefit from a school system. I suggest you go back to remedial english to at LEAST learn some proper spelling. There are FOUR spelling mistakes in your FIRST sentence for Christ’s sake.
So, junes_reston, as a fellow 8th district resident, may I count on your support and get this ball rolling?
You better believe it!
Junes_reston,
Although it is not completely updated yet, check out my website at www.sanfordhorn.com and link on to my blog. I am certainly open to advice as well. This must be a team effort, one person at a time and one dollar at a time.
Thanks,
Sanford
Elizabeth, I’m coming to join you honey!