Bolling heading-up group to save taxpayers some money

It’s not the most glamorous group in the world, but it is one which might save you a buck or two.
According to a Bolling/McDonnell press release, “The [Infrastructure in Virginia] Working Group will review governmental rules and regulations regarding education and transportation construction infrastructure in order to increase efficiencies, reduce bureaucracy and mitigate adverse impacts […]

Jody Wagner for LG

Anita Kumar of the WaPo’s “Virginia Politics” blogs yesterday that Virginia’s Secretary of Finance, and Virginia Beach resident, Jody Wagner, will resign later this month to begin her campaign for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.
Wagner, who was the Democrats last real chance in the 2nd congressional district when she opposed former Rep. Ed Schrock […]

Bill Bolling = Big Money!

The most recent campaign finance reports filed show that Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling raised $443K the first half of 2008 from 657 donors (408 of which were less than $100 from commonwealth citizens) and has $664K on hand for his re-election bid. According to a Bolling release, he says most of the cash was […]

McDonnell’s chances improve with House actions on transportation

While Democrats Del. Brian Moran and Sen. Creigh Deeds voted in favor of massive tax increases to fund transportation and Gov. Tim Kaine’s transportation bill failed to muster even a single vote, it would appear that Republicans have solid ground in 2009 to demonstrate why they are the party of ideas and Democrats are mired […]

Republicans declare Kaine’s transpo-bill DOA

From today’s Virginian-Pilot:
“I don’t see anything positive in the plan that could make it something that could be considered,” said House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith, R-Salem. “It’s all tax, tax, tax.”

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Bolling criticizes Kaine transportation plan

Full text of Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling’s statement on Gov. Kaine’s proposal:

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VPOD w/McDonnell after he and Bolling receive, effectively, the Republican nomination

This morning, a letter was released from every Republican member of Congress from Virginia, every Republican District Chair in Virginia, the entire General Assembly GOP leadership team, the leadership of the State Central Committee, and a host of other prominent and involved Republican leaders voicing their strong support of Bob McDonnell for Governor, and Bill […]

 
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Bolling reacts to judicial appointment ethics questions

After learning this weekend that Sen. Yvonne Miller has hijacked the judicial appointment process in Norfolk and Virginia Beach and Sen. Creigh Deeds accepted campaign money from an appointee’s law firm (where she is one of two partners) before he strongly advocated for her selection, we asked Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, the presiding officer of […]

Good observations on McDonnell/Bolling by the Virginian-Pilot

Today’s Pilot editorial makes all the right observations when it comes to Lt. Gov. Bolling’s decision to seek re-election as lieutenant governor in 2009, paving the way for Attorney General McDonnell’s nomination by the GOP for the governor’s race.
The Pilot correctly observes that:

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Person of the Week: Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling

It should come as no particular surprise that this week’s “winner” is Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling.

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Bolling to run for re-election?

WRVA is reporting that Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, who is scheduled to make a major announcement on the 2009 races at 1:30 p.m., is going to announce he is running for lieutenant governor — NOT GOVERNOR — in 2009.
This almost assures us that Allen is running for governor again, despite what he might have said […]

Bolling Report addresses key questions

Chalk this one up to “ask and ye shall receive.”
I’m not so presumptuous as to assume that anything Bearing Drift wrote has any impact on political decisions; however, it is pretty coincidental to see that our post last week requesting Lt. Gov. Bolling to be a “strong advocate…on the state budget, judges, [and] transportation” was […]

Did Bolling play it safe?

Last week, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling’s vote on denying planned parenthood state funding and his ruling from the chair that the use of lottery money in the General Fund required a 4/5 vote gave him an excellent opportunity to be a strong advocate this week on the state budget, judges, transportation, and the triggerman rule.

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Governor and Senate Democrats ignore law on lottery funds

Last week, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling ruled from the chair of the Senate that diverting money from the lottery fund to the general fund without a 4/5 super-majority was out of order. Yet, the easy-money Democrats of the Senate over-ruled the chair on a partisan 21-19 votes, effectively saying “rules, what rules?”
Well, fast-forward to […]

Bolling’s opportunity

Last week, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling was vindicated by the Division of Legislative Services, upholding his ruling on lottery funding, his comments here on Bearing Drift Friday regarding HB 3202 clearly showed that he knew that the bill was unconstitutional at the time it was created, and, perhaps most importantly, he broke the tie on […]

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