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.
Love it. That’s why we voted for him!
I did not vote for him so that he can use accounting gimmicks, and one offs to make the appearance of a balanced budget. This is what is getting many states into the mess that they are in. Instead of signing a no tax pledge, they should be signing a no gimmick pledge.
Slowpoke, why is it that you are encouraging dishonesty in my birth state?
You know what we used to call people who came to Virginia to take the spoils from others?
Lafayette will come along pretty soon to remind you if you have forgotten, as only she can do.
We are constitutionally mandated to have a balanced budget, not some kind of financial chicanery which is what we got. It was also done on a Sunday at the end of the normal session, so it was slid in, at the last minute, almost under the cover of darkness.
Shame on those who allowed the retirement of public servants in Virginia to go at risk.
Pat, I agree with you 100%. I guess we are not part of the ‘royal we’ that is used to frequently around here.
I sure didn’t vote for gimmicks and what ends up being a big lie either.
The next thing will be everyone bitching about how the state employees have bankrupted the system. Interesting. Those employees are all the teachers, staff in state hospitals, judges, firefighters, etc.
I agree about the VRS thing.
I still want him to sell the liquor stores. The gov’t already drives me to drink…I don’t want them also providing the booze.
You are certainly getting the benefit of the proceeds from the sale of that drink. Want to know how I really feel about the liquor stores in Virginia? They are the way Virginia does business. IUf you don’t like how native Virginians do business, don’t buy liquor here. I don’t feel that way about too many things…but I am going to pull a Lafayette here on the liquor stores.
Go back to New Orleans for your booze and corruption associates with private liquor stores and leave Virginia alone. I have never talked to one native Virginian who wanted to sell those stores.
I know, I am a rude, native arrogant Virginian. I come from a long line of them. Probably the only time I let the beast out is over the liquor stores.
I’ve talked to many native Virginians that support the privatization of liquor stores. Why do you support this? Would you also support gov’t grocery stores if that’s how Virginia did business? How about tobacco? And firearms? Then we could have alcohol, tobacco and firearms being a convenience store, not a govt agen….oh..wait…it would be….. 🙂
Is it only because of tradition?
They already sell alcohol, tobacco, firearms and marriage licenses in a convenience store but that’s WEST Virginia.