Food for the Blogs: It’s a dust up!

MoonHowler

 

I am trying to figure out who the five are out there in their underwear…hiding behind their computer screens of course.  Damn Corey!  I sputtered my tea all over the screen when he said that.

Actually, this was one of the more informative BOCS meetings.  There is hope for reducing class sizes.  I think they are slowly getting it that they have to increase taxes and that even the 2.5% might not be enough to address all the concerns.

This board has been laboring under the impression that you can just move things around and you will somehow have enough money. It doesn’t work that way.  Only Jenkins and Principi seem to get that part.  Of course, Jenkins and Principi  don’t have their own party trying to tea party them and feed on their remains.  I think that having to dodge the tea party bullet all the time creates the  mentality that forces  people go into denial about dollars and  cents and sense.
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Gov. McDonnell proposes funds for prisoner re-entry and restoration of civil rights

MoonHowler

Richmond Times Dispatch:

After pushing unsuccessfully for a constitutional amendment for automatic restoration of rights, McDonnell eventually made the process for nonviolent felons as automatic as he thought it could be through executive power.

He dramatically streamlined the process and has restored the rights of more than 7,500 felons who had completed their terms.

Before leaving office on January 11, 2014, Governor Bob McDonnell has proposed funds totally more than $3 million in his budget for prisoner re-entry and for restoration of civil rights.

The governor’s office says his proposed budget will include:

• $533,517 in each year of the two-year budget to enable the Department of Corrections to provide temporary lodging for hard-to-place inmates upon their release.

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