While the native tribes of Virginia plan on presenting Governor Bob McDonnell with a deer later this week, a liberal leaning group, ProgressVA has left a 12 pound turkey for McDonnell, naming him the Turkey of the Year. Why does McDonnell deserve this dubious award in the bestows eyes?
According to Hamptonroads.com:
The deer offering Gov. Bob McDonnell will accept from native Virginia tribes later this week comes with good intentions and a dose of tradition.
The frozen turkey left for him Monday?
Not so much.
A 12-pound gobbler was presented to McDonnell’s staff by ProgressVA, a left-leaning interest group which named the governor its “Turkey of the Year” for what it deemed his use of accounting gimmicks and cuts to core government services to balance Virginia’s budget.
In addition to the bird, the group left a framed resolution for the governor, accusing him of “maxing out the state’s credit card” with borrowing and refusing to close tax loopholes “that benefit his corporate donors.”
Figuring the governor wouldn’t consume the turkey, ProgressVA recommended a donation to a local food bank, which is how his office will handle the gift.
“The fact is in this tough economy many Virginians could use a free turkey at Thanksgiving,” McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin said. “With that in mind we will donate the turkey to the Central Virginia Foodbank and we encourage all Virginians to support their local food banks this holiday season.”
But if officials had their druthers, Martin joked, instead of a turkey they “would have preferred a one year membership in the jelly of the month club, the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.”
McDonnell has played loosey goosey with the accounting as far as VRS is concerned. I will hold a grudge forever on that subject simply because I believe allowing payments to VRS to be deferred was unconstitutional. Additionally, McDonnell proclaimed a balanced budget. If you still have outstanding debt, is the budget balanced?
But I don’t know what else he has done slippery. Is he still trying to sell our liquor stores? I guess now he gains a little more power with the senate win, we are getting ready to find out.
