Episode 27. Virginia Politics On-Demand. June 19, 2008.

In this week’s show, Shaun Kenney and Brian Kirwin join J.R. to talk the latest in politics in Virginia. This week’s show includes:

• J.R. dives right into the discussion by wondering when we’re going to “Drill here! Drill now! And Pay Less!”;
• Brian illustrates how little Democrats have to offer when it comes to transportation (including evidence of Kaine’s promise not to raise taxes for transportation); and,
• Shaun brings up the AP-Blogger kerfuffle, including a look at how Michelle Malkin plans on handling the situation
• And, as always, there’s a trip to the “Spin Room”

If you are so inclined, please send your comments for the show to vpod@bearingdrift.com.

Here’s the beginning of the Washington Post article cited in the podcast regarding Kaine’s position on transportation in 2005:

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Timothy M. Kaine promised yesterday to veto any new tax or fee for transportation or any increase in existing levies until at least 2009, when a constitutional amendment to lock up the state’s road fund could become law.

Kaine said the only new money for roads, bridges and trains on his watch would come from budget surpluses, if they materialize, and from a transfer of existing general fund taxes that would provide about $40 million a year for Northern Virginia.

“Any tax increase or any kind of fee increase — or if we can think of a word that’s a synonym for fees — any revenue increase that’s proposed into a transportation system, a trust fund, that’s not locked up and protected will be vetoed,” Kaine told reporters after a speech to business leaders in Herndon.

That’s far different from what he is saying today.

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JR Hoeft

Conservative to the core; liberal with his opinion! J.R. has been involved in politics for over a decade and has worked on several campaigns in Hampton Roads. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Chesapeake and the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is also the director of “Blogs United” in Virginia. E-mail J.R.. Follow J.R. on Twitter.