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In two developments, I am pleased as a supporter of Del. Bell for AG, to report two items: First, Delegate Bell’s bill to authorize multijurisdictional grand juries for human trafficking cases was signed by the governor. “Working with the attorney general’s office, I introduced HB 1870 to allow multijurisdictional grand juries to investigate additional types [...]

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The Progressive Liberal Republican in Name Only – RINO – Governor Bob McDonnell, who just pushed through the largest tax increase in Virginia history, was invited to the 2013 CPAC Convention. McDonnell has been asked to speak at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast. Now if you don’t know who Bob McDonnell is, this [...]

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This is from RedState. I will have more to say later today. Much more. On Friday, March 15, 2013, at 8:00 a.m. Bob McDonnell will go to CPAC and address the Faith & Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast. For those of you who attend this event, you will be sitting staring at a liar.   If [...]

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Thanks to Tom White, I was able to attend the Cantor/Jindal breakfast this am!  (In fact I am here – already I have been a few feet from my hero, Governor Bobby Jindal) I have gotten a solid, if blurry photo that should be in an update for this blog post.  I was invited up [...]

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Remember when Candidate Bob McDonnell promised to balance the budget and solve the transportation funding problems without raising taxes? Apparently McDonnell, now Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia has forgotten his promise to voters. In a Press Release, Governor McDonnell announced his scheme to add an additional $3.1 Billion tax burden on the backs of [...]

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This one is a bit curious.

PolitiFact, the Democrat’s pretend version of truth analysis has ranked a campaign promise by Governor Bob McDonnell as “Stalled” despite the fact that McDonnell is only midway through the 4 legislative sessions that will occur during his Governorship.

You would think there were more important things to “debunk” these days.

Nonetheless, PolitiFact decided to rank this promise that the McDonnell campaign indicated they would introduce as legislation by the 2013 session anyway.

The item has not been accomplished yet but neither is the time up.

PolitiFact Watcher ranks this one a Premature Evaluation.

Perhaps the writers over there should bone up on the effective date of the promise before they decide to evaluate anything like this again.

It’s a good think they are shooting blanks.

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Politifact has published their verdict of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s campaign promise to establish an entity to oversee ethics issues and violations and concluded that McDonnell has broken that promise.

So when it comes to policing state government, McDonnell has opted for an inspector general’s office instead of an ethics commission. Then governor’s office said there’s no need to have two groups that overlap.

But during his campaign, McDonnell pledged to establish both entities. So we rate this a Promise Broken.

PolitiFact has, as is their pattern, distorted and twisted the facts to fit their left wing partisan agenda.

The last sentence is the kicker. McDonnell did not promise to create two separate entities. PolitiFact even quoted the Campaign Promise in their post, but failed to comprehend the statement:

Independent state ethics commission - Virginia is one of only 10 states without an independent ethics commission. Bob McDonnell will establish a permanent, statewide independent agency that will provide advice and research as well as evaluate complaints concerning elected officials and appointees to boards, commissions and other public bodies.

There is nothing in this statement that in any way lays claim that there will be an agency created that is solely responsible for ethics investigation and only ethics investigation. Indeed, additional responsibilities are clearly stated in this promise “that will provide advice and research as well as evaluate complaint”.

Governor McDonnell created an Inspector General office that fulfilled both his promise to create such an office and this office has been granted broad powers to investigate ethics complaints as well. PolitiFact has previously acknowledged McDonnell fulfilled his promise to create the IG office.

Taylor Thornley, a spokeswoman for the governor, said the scope of the new inspector’s office will be “much broader and more comprehensive than anything we’ve ever had before.”

“The new inspector general has the ability to search anywhere in state government for fraud, waste and abuse,” Thornley said in an e-mail. “Previously, only a few, select agencies had IGs that only covered those specific agencies. The IG can now receive complaints from citizens, not just state employees like in the past.”

But Governor McDonnell did what the liberals at PolitiFact cannot comprehend. He managed to kill two birds with one stone. By combining the two promises into one office, he has managed to both fulfill his promise and maintain the efficiency that has turned the massive Tim Kaine deficits into a surplus.

Instead of an unfulfilled promise, the Governor has actually kept two promises and saved the taxpayers a lot of money.

We rate this PolitiFact rating as a LIE.

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– Commonwealth Posts Third Straight Fiscal Year Surplus for a Total of Nearly $1.4 Billion – Governor Had Previously Announced $129 million Revenue Surplus; Today’s Announcement is Final, Cumulative Surplus Amount Including Agency Savings Governor Announces Additional $78.3 Million to Rainy Day Fund to Create Nearly $700 Million Balance; $77.2 Million to State Employee Performance [...]

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Politifact has come out with another example of their left wing bias with this one. First and foremost, the statement made by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is correct. The ObamaCare law does, in fact, take more the $700 Billion from MediCare and move it to ObamaCare because the president promised to not sign the bill [...]

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RICHMOND (July 12, 2012)-Today, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced that the Richmond Circuit Court has dismissed convicted murderer Jens Soering’s lawsuit against Governor Bob McDonnell, finding that the governor did not violate Virginia Code § 53.1-220 when he revoked the transfer of Soering from Virginia to his homeland of Germany.   Soering is currently serving two [...]

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This is a delicious article about one of my heroes, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and our own governor, Bob McDonnell, who I admire very much.  Here’s a highlight or two: “We’re not going to start implementing Obamacare,” Jindal said during a conference call with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. “We’re committed to working to elect [...]

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RICHMOND – Governor Bob McDonnell issued the following statement today following the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). “Today’s Supreme Court ruling is extremely disappointing for Virginia and for America. The PPACA will create a costly and cumbersome system that will impair our country’s ability to recover from [...]

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It is a fair question to ask, and frankly, one that needs to be discussed. Over the last few days I have published several posts written by others expressing concern, disappointment and a lot of frustration at the behavior of Governor McDonnell, a man that these people worked so hard to put in office. No [...]

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We hope not, but given the fact that Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is often named on everyone’s short list for Vice President, and his strong support for Virginia’s anointed Republican candidate Mitt Romney, it is a question that is being raised often in Pro-life circles. And we all know about the abortion flip-flops that Mitt [...]

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Join Americans for Prosperity Virginia Please join us for the State of the Union Watch Party with Governor Bob McDonnell Also featuring: Senator Mark Obenshain Delegates Ben Cline and Brenda Pogge On Tuesday, January 24th, while President Obama gives the State of the Union Address, Americans for Prosperity will be holding a watch party to [...]

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I wrote on this some time ago:  How Newt Gingrich is actually resident of Virginia.  When he set up his campaign, Georgia is his base of operations but he is legally a resident of Virginia.This ought to cause some soul searching among Virginia GOPers.  But it begs the question: Who might be Speaker Gingrich’s running [...]

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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell announced his support of former Virginia Governor and US Senator George Allen in his bid to replace retiring Democrat Jim Webb to represent Virginia in the US Senate. Governor McDonnell joins a long list of prominent Virginian’s who have announced their support for George Allen. The list also includes Lt. Governor [...]

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If Virginians needed a reminder of what a schmuck Tim Kaine is, they need look no further than his most recent fundraising letter. Here is what Kaine had to say about the recent earthquake and hurricane: Two natural disasters – a hurricane and an earthquake – hit Virginia in the past week. Millions lost their [...]

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Governor McDonnell has really done a wonderful job turning around the miserable hand he was dealt by former Governor Tim Kaine. We now have the second surplus in a row. Virginians are happy to have a surplus, but if the State is simply going to spend it on other things, then the news is no [...]

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