Since Gov. Bob McDonnell took office in January, the Commonwealth of Virginia has added more than 5,000 jobs. For those of you who are math wizards, that’s more than a thousand jobs a month added.
“Bob’s for Jobs” has certainly been more than a campaign slogan. Since the beginning of the McDonnell Administration there have been:
- 82 – Projects Announced
- 5,473 – Jobs Created
- $673M – Capital Investment
(Source: VEDP)
This information is, of course, specific to what the government has been involved in.
But why stop with those statistics? When you look at overall Department of Labor numbers in the Commonwealth, outside of hirings and projects that the government had direct involvement in, the picture continues to improve.
This past Saturday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch highlighted the administration’s achievements in job creation when they reported that:
Virginia and three other states tied for having the nation’s largest month-over-month percentage increase in employment in April.
The four states each saw a 0.8 percent jump in nonfarm payroll employment in April from March, according to a U.S. Labor Department report on state unemployment released yesterday.
Virginia added 28,100 jobs, ranking it fifth-highest among the states in the actual number of jobs gained.
So, while the left is trying to impugn McDonnell over Confederate History Month (ok, he deserves a little impugning) and a non-existent issue with Fred Malek, McDonnell has been quietly keeping his promises of creating jobs and continuing Virginia’s long tradition of being a business-friendly state.
McDonnell is the same principled leader who Virginia Beach elected so many years ago; and he still exemplifies his campaign slogan from those elections past: Promises Made, Promises Kept.
In this case, jobs promised and jobs delivered.
