When Republican Jeff McWaters won the GOP nomination to replace Sen. Ken Stolle, Democrats didn’t want to have a candidate.
That changed when Bill Fleming decided to run. Shame..the Democrats were better off without a candidate.
Fleming’s website proposes massive increases in government spending, and of course no clue how to pay for it all.
He proposes a massive increase in the city budget by making the school year a month longer! There’s a real vote getter!
He also wants all teachers to get a 10% raise, government-paid Pre-K statewide, part time college professors to get taxpayer-funded health care, an end to the academy schools in Virginia Beach, no charter schools, and no school choice.
No way to pay for his massive spending increases, either. Someone tap Bill on the shoulder and whisper to him about the huge shortfalls government at the state and local level is having. Tell him about the recession that’s been going on for over a year. Eh, on second thought, don’t wake him.
That’s just his far left ideology on education.
He lists 15 issues on his website, and like most Democrats, “taxes” ain’t one of them.
His “transportation” page lists all the things he opposes (as if that builds anything), and his most aggressive way to build more roads is help Martinsville get “better internet.” Wow! The key to the third crossing is a laptop! Who knew?
Like most Democrats, he’s very specific about defending abortion as a “Constitutional right” but very vague about the Second Amendment that is actually written in the Constitution.
He actually has a page explaining that gay people are born gay. uhm…ok.
Of course, the buzzword is jobs, and he has a great time proposing a bunch of things Virginia already does, and some other things that are very vague about how he plans to do them. How he’s gonna get Obama to give Hampton Roads more stimulus money for transportation is a mystery to me.
Democrats were better off with a write-in option.
