If you haven't had a chance yet, I suggest you read the Washington Post's latest editorial, a grim assessment of just how out of touch Bob McDonnell's transportation plan truly is. The piece, entitled Drinking Games, focuses on McDonnell's proposal to sell Virginia's more than three hundred state-operated liquor stores, in exchange for a one-time windfall of half a billion dollars (an exxagerated figure at best). Given how key thiis component is to Bob's plan to raise new funds, the newspaper asks the simple question: Is it sober?
The Washington Post tears into McDonnell's plan, taking the Republican candidate to task for the plan's "wildly optimistic assumptions, brazen exaggerations, gauzy projections and far-off scenarios: budget surpluses and revenue growth that may not materialize; interstate tolls that the federal government may not approve; royalties from offshore oil and gas wells that may not be drilled; borrowing the state may not be able to afford any time soon."
Creigh Deeds has earned praise from around the state, and rightly so, for leveling with Virginia's voters on the issue of transportation and coming up with a transportation plan that protects Virginia's public schools, health services, and public safety funding.
Young voters need to take a stand this November, and support Creigh Deeds. If we don't, our generatioin will have to deal with the results of McDonnell's transportation gimmickry for years to come.
